Archive for the ‘Itinerary’ Category
Sunday, July 29th, 2007 by Paul
General Updates on The Shack stuff – July 29, 2007
I am still working on getting the site over to Joomla, and while it was ’soon’ last month, it is even ’sooner’ now. I should probably just quit messing with stuff, but…
The podcast that I recorded last month with Greg Albrecht and Plain Truth is now posted… http://www.ptm.org/young/ I never like to listen to my own voice much, so it’s there if you would like a listen. I was fun…that is about all I remember. They kindly gave me the entire back cover of their magazine, The Plain Truth, to promote the book. Their website, Christianity Without the Religion, can be linked to at ttp://www.ptm.org/cwr/. You can click on the ‘magazine’ menu item and get a free year’s subscription if you like. They have asked me to wrtie some articles for them, and I hope to do that.
Heading down to Salem next Sunday, the 5th of August, to hang out with a bunch of folks connected to Dena and Mark Brehms. That is going to be wonderful, I can’t wait.
Did another radio show, this time for an old … uh, an older… uh, someone that I have known for a long time, who is a nationally certified grief counselor and Hospice caregiver. She is amazing!
But the really big news is that any day now, our first grand child will be emerging out of seclusion (our first is due August 4th and our second is due August 21st). We are sooooo ready!!
Just received an invitation to sign books and speak up in Abottsford B.C., hosted by the 3rd largest bookstore in Canada…don’t know details yet, but will keep you posted.
My son Nicholas and I are planning to try to take a weekend in August and travel the journey from Portland, OR out to Wallowa Lake, up the tram etc, and tape some video segments that we can put online. Probably five or six, so that you can see some of the sites from the book, like Multnomah Falls, the Columbia Gorge, Joseph, the camp site, the tram…maybe event the cabin, if we can pull it off. Sounds like fun, eh?
I am starting to work on recording a CD version of the book…hoping to have a couple test chapters done in the next two weeks. Will keep you posted on that.
Someday, I hope I get to travel and that my journeys will take you close to where ‘you’ are, so we can sit and hang out a bit over a cup a coffee, or for me a Chai tea, extra hot, with soy (or just tea of any type really).
Blessings to you all,
(Paul)
Thursday, June 21st, 2007 by Paul
General Updates on The Shack stuff – June 21, 2007
Hi all,
I am going to try and keep you updated on general interest information, itinerary stuff and anything else I can think of that you might like…
Many of you know that I did a podcast with Wayne and Brad on www.thegodjourney.com – you can find it there along with many other podcasts that are worth your time. This is a great, fun and entertaining resource.
I taped another podcast that will be airing mid-August with the folks at Christianity without Religion http://www.ptm.org/cwr/ which is a sort of internet community/church and has a historical relationship to the Worldwide Church of God. They publish The Plain Truth Magazine (which has come a long way from the old days), and their Sept/Oct issue (coming out in mid-August) will feature The Shack as the entire back cover (which I think is pretty fun). They think their readership is about 100,000. Hmmmm, we have about 8,000 books left from the first printing….hmmmmm
Next Tuesday, June 26th, I will be interviewed on local radio here in Oregon (KPDQ, the Georgene Rice Show) about the book. I sort of know Georgene Rice from years ago…Kim knows her a lot better, but also from a long time ago. For those who are able, the time of the interview on Tuesday will be 5PM – 93.7 FM in Portland, OR – translators elsewhere in the state.
The Byerly family is heading to the House2House Church conference in California and taking about 20 books to foist down there.
A believer’s community in Salem, OR, thanks to Dena and Mark, have a case of books that they are rampaging through and I am going down there to visit – I think on August 5th – just to see what kind of trouble I have stirred up…not really. It will be very fun!!!
I think that I am doing my first book signing at a coffee house in Newberg, Oregon in the next few weeks – will keep you posted…thanks to Chyril and family.
Let me see…I have received emails from wonderful people all over the US and Canada, and from Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and Japan – folks who have already read the book…can you believe that? This is soooo cool!
One of Oprah’s on-line book clubs selected The Shack as their June read and invited me as a guest to discuss it…what an incredible group of women and the conversation has been brilliant and open and a gift.
I am soon moving this site over to Joomla so that I can do more stuff, like upload some music, post images and documents and generally confuse myself even more…but they say it will be easier to manage and I am all for that. The initial mock-ups are fun…they make me look really important, but as long as you and I know better we can enjoy the creativity and the joke.
I hear every single day from people whose lives are being touched and opened up by this little unassuming story – I am so grateful that I had no idea about any of this when I wrote the book – I am like the kid, wide-eyed in wonder, at their first glimpse of whale breaching or the Rocky Mountains, or…you get the idea. I feel like I just had my first lesson in surfing and someone said, ‘Hey, why don’t you try that 40 foot wave over there.’ Glory to the One who loves us all.
-willie (William P Young)
