French Sketches: Cap Ferrat and Somerset Maugham up at Kindle

Up at Kindle today. Price $.99. This is the second of the French Sketches published. These are short five to ten thousand word travel and cultural portraits of interesting places and people in France. It is also available in all formats at Smashwords.

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Paris 1935: Destiny's Crossroads

Finally! "Paris 1935" is up at Kobo ! I use Kobo for books to read on my HTC android telephone. The ePub format works really well. Price $3.99.

Color classified ad New York Review of Books

A classified ad for historical novels by Paul A. Myers.Classifieds New York Review of Books

Paris 1935: Destiny's Crossroads ePub at Goodreads

An ePub edition is up for purchase at Goodreads and I believe the entire book can probably be read on your browser. Don't know whether that is such a hot idea. I hate to call the crazy quilt of ebook sales distribution anything so organized as a "distribution channel!"  Goodreads sales page

Up at Apple iStore - everything!

Apple iStore has all five of my ebooks. The three novels and the two shorts.

Fine Arts - Scripps Luncheon on Sam Maloof

Hal Nelson of the Huntington Library gave a powerpoint preview of the exhibition "The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985" to the Scripps College Fine Arts Foundation in the Hampton Room of Malott Commons on a beautiful spring day on the Scripps Campus (Wednesday, May 11, 2011). The late Sam Maloof is the world renowned furniture maker who lived nearby in Alta Loma with his artist wife Frieda. Both were students under Millard Sheets at Claremont Graduate University and Scripps College in the years after the Second World War when Sheets guided several dozen of that generation's finest young artists into a Golden Age of Art in Southern California. Several of the artists or their family members attended the luncheon, which at 72 persons for lunch was a season-high success.

Nelson's talk was well informed and quite interesting. The Huntington exhibition, which opens September 24, features Maloof's furniture and some of his art plus selected works from 35 other noted artists across several artistic modes, such as ceramics, sculpture, painting, crafts, pottery, weaving. The exhibition provides a stunning mosaic of the art produced in this notable era.

The Fine Arts Foundation will be heading off to view the exhibition by bus on Wednesday October 5 (call Paul Myers 9090-908-2877 for additional info).

Fine Arts - Scripps Senior Art Exhibition

My wife Minche and I attended the Scripps College Senior Art Exhibition Opening last Friday night (April 29) at Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery on the Scripps campus. In February, we had toured the student art studios with the Fine Arts Foundation and got previews of the students' ideas for their projects. The quality of the art last Friday was impressive, and, possibly even more so, was the striking originality of many of the young women's artistic vision. You can see imaginations at play!     And the wine and cheese were excellent and the band playing on the terrace was superb: a modern rendition of a sound seemingly coming from the classic 1960s. Fun!