Publication Update: I finally have a publication date for Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins. The editor says, “Everything is comfortably on schedule for a 3/1/2012 pub date. The spring catalog comes out in November, and Marketing should be in touch with you in a month or so about jacket and catalog copy.”
MARTY ROBBINS AND FARON YOUNG ON 20 JULY While searching for events in the lives of Marty and Faron on this day, I came across the major non-music theme in both lives, racing for Marty and alcohol for Faron.
Publication Update: the copyedited manuscript of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins has gone back to the publisher. In September I’ll receive two copies in page number format. One copy for final edit and one for making the index. MARTY ROBBINS AND FARON YOUNG 55 YEARS AGO Marty and Faron were filming Raiders of Old California […]
Publication Update: I received the copyedited manuscript of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins on Monday. Finally! I’ll be reviewing it over the next few weeks. The copy editor’s note said, “What a pleasure it was to have copyedited this manuscript! Your descriptions of Marty Robbins’s life and the people in it helped me picture him and […]
By Randy L. Schmidt Karen Carpenter is almost as famous for her anorexia nervosa death as for being lead singer of the duo, The Carpenters, in the 1970s. Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter encapsulates two decades of research by author Randy Schmidt. He became fascinated with Karen when he watched the made-for-TV […]
MARTY ROBBINS 35 YEARS AGO AT THE INDY 500 On May 30, 1976, Marty Robbins drove the pace car for the Indianapolis 500. Former winners usually filled that role, although actor James Garner had driven the previous year. “When it was first suggested to me that I was being considered, I didn’t think I had […]
Update on publication of Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins: I should be receiving the copyedited manuscript in June, with several weeks to go over that to agree/disagree with the copyeditor’s changes and to make any other changes I want. The next time I’ll see it will be in September, in page format. […]
This periodic newsletter commemorates the lives of Faron Young and Marty Robbins. The University of Illinois Press published Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story in 2007 and is publishing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins in the spring of 2012. The remaining 900 copies of Live Fast, Love Hard will have the covers stripped, and they will be […]
This periodic newsletter commemorates the lives of Faron Young and Marty Robbins. The University of Illinois Press published Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story in 2007 and is publishing Twentieth Century Drifter: The Life of Marty Robbins in the spring of 2012. The manuscript will be assigned to a copy editor in April. (Finally!)
FARON YOUNG ON SAINT PATRICK’S DAY 1970 The night I met Faron Young, he and the Country Deputies came to Sioux Falls as part of the Hap Peebles monthly Opry package show. I walked downtown from Augustana College, stayed for both shows, and collected autographs. When Faron learned I planned to walk the three miles […]