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August 31, 2008         Tune your radio dials to WSVH Public Radio – station 91.1 FM on your dial – at 6 p.m., Tuesday, September 2, to listen to the program you find there. You should hear a familiar voice at some point during the broadcast!        August was a busy, busy month – with many talks given and many books sold – and September is already shaping up to keep me just as much on the go. I have a couple of really exciting events in the works (make that three) that I'm itching to tell you all about, but I don't want to spoil the big surprises when they come to pass. Keep checking in here so you don't miss any future announcements! On the evening of the 8th I'll be speaking to members of well-known Savannah author Rosemary Danielle's Secrets of the Zona Rosa group. That promises to be a very fun evening as my buddy, Savannah's Batman (Gordon Varnedoe), has threatened to attend. On Sept. 11th I'm scheduled to speak to members of the Lion's Club at their noon luncheon at the Savannah Golf Club. My lively friend Trot Hurd will be there, so that promises to be another fun event. My business partner Cynthia Fritts Stillwell was here from NYC the last week in August and we spent one full day of planning (and laughing) together, lining up events through the rest of this year and beyond. All I can say is, if you think it's been interesting around this website up till now - you haven't seen anything yet! On a personal note, my brother, Robert, and my niece, Delinda, will be visiting me at the end of this month from Washington State and Pennsylvania. And my daughter and her family are almost ready for their move to Statesboro, Georgia from their home in Ireland. I'm looking for them the end of this month - or early next! Son Clay earned his pilot's license this past month, son Forrest bought a Chinese Junk, and son Delton is in the process of acquiring a (haunted?) mansion in England.  I'll be moving out near Statesboro, too, the first week in October. I've found a place out in the country on a lake, dock, and a lot covered over with figs, scuppernongs, and blue berry bushes. It's a 35-40 minute straight shot into Savannah from there so I won't be that far from business and friends – but I'll be lots closer to my kids and grandkids, and that's very attractive to me. It feels like a great place to write, too, so maybe I'll make a start on my next book in the reasonably near future … Meanwhile, the books I have in print are all doing great. Waking Up Men's second edition got a rave (front page!) review wonderfully written by Savannah Morning News reporter and portside columnist Mary Mayle (posted here), and in Savannah it has been Number One on E. Shaver Bookseller's Best Seller list going on its third week! Then They All Got Naked is earning its own good reviews (and sales), this one from the owner of a lifestyle club in another state: "We love the book and it is so right on point. We have had several of our patrons ask to borrow it, but we told them "No way, support this lady in every way you can." We thank you for giving swinging a fair shake as it were. … if you are ever in our neck of the woods, let us set up book signing … Good Luck, Gennie D."  I had a book signing in a club in Atlanta in early August and it went very well, so send me some directions, Gennie, and I'll see about getting there! J

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'Waking Up Men' back in bookstores
by Mary Carr Mayle

O.Kay Jackson's "Waking Up Men," a fascinating, irreverent and often hilarious ode to Savannah's port and the folks who bring the world upriver, is in its second printing and back on bookshelves around town.

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