By Joel Thurtell
The first Hardalee Press publication was the 2001 book, “Plug Nickel,” a collection of 20 of my columns written for the International Lightning Class Association publication, “Lightning Flashes.” Hardalee Press plans to publish a two-volume, expanded version of Plug Nickel in 2010.
Meantime, we’re pleased to announce that our first new project is the audio version of the Wayne State University Press book by me, Joel Thurtell, and Patricia Beck: “Up the Rouge! Paddling Detroit’s Hidden River.”
The audio version has 4 CDs and is packaged in a husky DVD case. It’s a five-hour-long reading by me of the text of “Up the Rouge!’
There’s more — we’ve inserted key parts of the audio log I kept as Pat Beck and I took that canoe 27 miles up the urban mess known as the Rouge River in metro Detroit during the first week of June 2005.
When it becomes available, which I hope is soon, the audio book will be for sale via shopping cart on this site and at uptherouge.com. The print book will soon be for sale here. it is now for sale at uptherouge.com.
More books are underway.
My journalism textbook, “Shoestring Reporter,” explains “How I Got To Be a Big City Journalist (Without Going to J School) and How you Can Do It Too!” You will also be able to order “Shoestring” at shoestringreporter.com.
“Shoestring Reporter is the first offering of a bigger work I call “Shoestring Quartet.”
The idea of the “Shoestring” series is to show people how they can do good, hard-hitting journalism without breaking the bank.
Two books in the series are novels: “Cross Purposes, or, If Newspapers Had Covered the Crucifixion,” is a satire on newspapering in America and by setting the early Christian era in today’s USA, poses the question: Would the media recognize the greatest story of all time if it happened today?
The other novel is “Stringer,” about a free lance news reporter who gets wrapped up in a murder that is solved by a lunatic.
Th final entry in “Shoestring Quartet” is “Shoestring J School,” a nuts and bolts case by case study of how to do effective journalism on the cheap.
“Seydou’s Christmas Tree” is my account of how a young Muslim boy in sub-Saharan Africa taught his Peace Corps volunteer friends in northern Togo a lesson about the meaning of Christmas.
“Mouse Code” is a children’s story about how mice stole radio from a human radio operator so they could save their colony from real estate developers who want to tear it up for a subdivision.
“Lies of the Rouge” is my account of the adventures I enjoyed trying to get straight answers from environmental officials about what would happen to me and Pat Beck if we fell out of our canoe into the Rouge River.
Many more books to come from Hardalee Press.
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