{"id":799,"date":"2020-12-02T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T23:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2020-12-02T07:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T23:27:32","slug":"rays-ruminations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlesray-author.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/02\/rays-ruminations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray’s Ruminations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Several weeks ago, my good Facebook friend, Gigi Estrella, aka Gigi Star, a radio personality who can be heard on 84.3iFM from Bacalod, Philippines, urged me to write a column for a local newspaper. Gigi can be heard at https:\/\/www.radionowonline.com\/2018\/04\/listen-to-ifm-943-bacolod-video.html<\/a> on Sunday mornings US time playing all the romantic oldies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Promotion of my column in the print edition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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More promotion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But, I digress. I agreed to write the column, thinking it would be no big deal. First one appeared on line, looked good, so I decided to do four a month, and sent them along to the editor. What I didn’t know until today is that my column had been promoted in advance, and was also appearing in the print version of the paper in a very prominent position. Good things come in bunches. Last month I had seven of my titles in Amazon’s Top 100 best selling westerns and now I can call myself a newspaper columnist with an international audience. On top of everything else, they also promoted three of my westerns in the second column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, ain’t that something to crow about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago, my good Facebook friend, Gigi Estrella, aka Gigi Star, a radio personality who can be heard on 84.3iFM from Bacalod, Philippines, urged me to write a column for a local newspaper. Gigi can be heard at https:\/\/www.radionowonline.com\/2018\/04\/listen-to-ifm-943-bacolod-video.html on Sunday mornings US time playing all the romantic oldies. But, I digress. I agreed … <\/p>\n

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