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PEGGY
FIELDING'S NEWSLETTER STILL GOING TO ARKANSAS Well, I've been rejected by everyone I've asked to go to Arkansas with me... even by Joe's son, Corbett. He was ready to go, as you read last month, but his mom put the kibosh on that. He is divorced and living under her roof now and eating her food... which may explain his backing out. "Immoral." she said. Wonder if she thinks her son is so sexually charged that he would DO IT with a fat, little, old grandmother type woman? Yeah. That's me. Truth to tell I can't believe it either, that I could stay in a motel room with a huge, good-looking, young guy and not be turned on by the whole situation. But I know I wouldn't be. Maybe it's the "young" that turns me off? Now, if I took his dad (Joe) she (the mother) might have something to worry about, although I doubt it. I think my plumbing has crystallized solidly after several years of disuse. My motive for this trip isnt sex, it's MONEY. That filthy lucre is what gets my juices flowing these days. I tell myself, "Sell them there books, Peggy Lou!" Now, if I'd had any sense at all in my previous years and had put as much effort into building up my bank account as I did letting myself be driven by biological needs, I'd probably be a comfortably wealthy woman right now. Maybe even a comfortably wealthy, married woman. My interest in sex and my need for bed games with him was one of the things my ex disliked most about me. Did you folks need to know all this? Probably not. ANYWAY I'M BETTER But, aside from no partner on the trip, I'm ready and I'm planning to go alone. I'm not tottering so much and I'm walking quite a lot better these days. Maybe it's just that I'm heading into a second childhood? I walked really well when I was a kid. I feel good and I don't need a cane. I will take one to Arkansas but I don't plan to use it. I've given Steven Scott's father's cane back to him with thanks. Jackie King would sacrifice herself and go down there if I asked, I think, but I'm not asking. If any of you readers want to hang with an old writer who knows a lot about the business, at a UFO conference, just apply within. I'm leaving on the afternoon of April the eighth. SIDESADDLE Chapter 5 is onto the page for that book. Dan Case came up with the original idea but didn't want to write the book so I'm rewriting the pages he'd written and perhaps heading in a different direction than he'd intended. I hope the story will be diverting, anyway. Like all wild horses, if you put the bit in my mouth, you mustn't be surprised that I buck and run with it in unexpected ways. CONFESSING FOR MONEY My free confessions class is going great guns. Eleven females and one male enrolled so far and we are all so enthusiastic. We're having a hell of a good time together and we aren't even having snacks. Three of the participants, Donna Le, Michelle Rader and Joan Rhine have already sold stories to one or the other of the "Trues" even before our class started, but when I commented and asked why they were there they insisted they wanted to take the class anyway. Hope they do get something out of it. Mary Sue Lopez, one of the participants, bought six of my CONFESSING FOR MONEY books. Maybe she is going to have a private group of her own? I do insist that people who want to be in the class be, or bring money to become, members of Tulsa Night Writers. Maybe Mary Sue knows five people who don't want to join TNW. I've told the folks in the group that they need to plan to attend the next Oklahoma Mystery Writers meeting on the fifteenth of May. The queen of the confessions, Jackie King, will be breaking ground with her speech about writing and selling a mystery story to True Confessions. This is new stuff, folks. She promises to bring copies of her story, which will be serialized in the April and May issues, for handouts for each of us who attend. This is a free meeting in the back room of the Sizzlin' Steak at 21st Street and Sheridan Ave., in Tulsa. Come at 12:30 and eat lunch or have a drink (or not, if you're having budget troubles) to help pay for the use of the room and at 1:00 pm we'll get to meet Jackie and hear her speak. She doesn't care to speak in public but when she does she does a bang-up job. I have heard her before. You can even join the Oklahoma Mystery Writers if you want. $10.00 gets you into another writers' group where you can hear and learn new things. CONTEST! The person or persons who guess how many copies of BARBARA I sell while at the UFO conference in Eureka Springs will receive a free signed copy of SALLY or BARBARA (winner's choice) for their very own. If more than one guesses right, then I'll give away more than one book. That's fair, isn't it? HOOKED ON REALITY I never thought I'd admit to such a simple-minded sin, but there it is. I've become addicted to a reality show on TV called "Starting Over." It comes on at 1:30 or later on Channel 8 (ABC) on weeknights. Don't try it. You might like it. I can't go to my e-mail (then to bed) until I see what is happening with the women in the Starting Over house. They're all trying to change their lives in some way. If you hear the words, "Stupid Bitch," loudly emanating from the little white house on Fourth Street in Tulsa, then you should realize that I"m just commenting on some woman's "wrong choice." Probably material for a confession in this show. Participants often make wrong choices. SLOCUM HAS STRUCK AGAIN At last, Dusty Richards has sent a new Slocum book, THE CAYUSE SQUAW, and, of course, I sat right down and read it immediately. The tiny pinging sound was perhaps some of that crystallized plumbing breaking up ever so slightly, one supposes. The Slocum books do it for me... usually. Dusty also has a new book of short stories out this month, from AWOC. Go to the AWOCBooks.com website and get all the details about this wonderful book. Dusty comes on strong but his short stories are sensitive and usually low key. I loved them. WHAT ELSE ARE YOU READING GIRL? I've read a ton of regencies, a few mysteries and an old book called THE LOOK OF THE OLD WEST by Foster Harris. I'd forgotten I had it and one day while I was riding sidesaddle, I found it in my dining room. The thing was published in 1955. It's a collector's item, Jackie King tells me, and probably worth more than I might expect. It is so large I've been using it for years as a tray for holding "giveaway" romance novels. Now the giveaways are housed in a real tray made of straw, which I brought from the Philippines. The straw tray was probably made in 1965. Wonder if it is collectible? A DIFFERENT KIND OF REJECTION My cousin, Carol Taylor, of Edmond, tells me AOL has been rejecting her attempts to send e mails to me. I've never asked AOL to reject anyone, not even the viagra and penis enlargement peddlars. I do hope none of you are being rejected from my board. Carolyn Leonard of Oklahoma City said she'd been tossed off my website. We can't have that. She resubscribed and all is well with her now. Hope none of you have been having trouble of this sort. Please let me know if you are feeling rejected and perhaps we can correct that problem. OWFI The big event is coming up the last two days in April and first day of May, I understand. Hope I see you all there. OWFI is the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc. conference at the Embassy Suites in Oklahoma City. HUGS ALL AROUND Real ones if I see you at OWFI, and air hugs if you can't be there. Radine Nehring told me yesterday that she isn't going to make it this year and I'm already feeling deprived. I'll see you in April with more smart alec remarks if you tune in.
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