The Writer's Life 7/12 - Guitar Gods

I was rooting around with the remote control last night, searching for something interesting to watch. PBS came through, as it so often does. Photographer Robert Knight was profiled in a documentary called Rock Prophecies. The son of a Baptist minister who failed to shelter him from the devil's music, he has taken photographs of all the guitar greats. There are approximately 200,000 pictures in his archive, whose value is estimated at 3.5 million dollars. These days he's interested in publicizing artists he senses might break big. He found a boy from a small town, Tyler Dow Bryant. Is he the next the next guitar god? Judge for yourself. Here's a clip from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCUNJtJJv3Q&feature=related

And here's Knight's most iconic photograph:

Today I went to plan Z in terms of the floating book shop. Since I had to accompany a friend to the doctor in Bay Ridge, I decided to set up on a sidewalk bench at 5th Avenue & 75th Street, displaying only Adjustments, Killing & A Hitch in Twilight. Only one person stopped in the nearly two hours I was there, but it wasn't an entirely unproductive day on the literary front. I submitted two short stories electronically (love it!) to separate magazines through duotrope.com. I've had more than 50 published worldwide, and another is due out later in the year in the Literary House anthology. I have only five left. It's been more than a year since I've had a fresh idea for one. These days I've concentrated on blogging, and have issued nearly one a day. I have six more novels on file that I'd like to have published. It's great to have a goal, a reason to jump out of bed each day in one's senior years.

Visit Vic’s sites:
Vic’s Third Novel (Print or Kindle): http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic’s Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic’s Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic’s 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic’s 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic’s Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3f