The Nonplus Adventures of a Self-publishing Writer:
Cover Shoot for “Just Us” Part Duex
The photo shoot is complete, long live the photo shoot! 
I decided to rethink this picture and just use the two main characters, Tobi and Yancy. Tobi is portrayed by Gabby Lofland, a talented writer and violinist, and Yancy is played by my son, Samuel, also a writer and musician.
I need to thank my editor and friend, Janet Simonson for her help, and my new friends, Gary & Diane Nelms for volunteering their bay side backyard. We got some great shots and didn’t have to worry about freak’n out people as we carried around AKs, pistols and shotguns.
We arrived around 5:30 PM and our photographer, Timothy Monk, walked around the property looking for the best place to take the pictures. At one point we considered boating out to a little island but found out there was no way to get on the island without swim/wading onto it. We settled on a little corner of the Nelm’s side yard next to the canal. Though the the line of brush seen in the picture is only around twenty feet long, Tim made it look like they were walking through a woods.
My “actors” got suited up with backpacks, guns, and Gabby brought a brown wig which lined up well with her character and gives me a shot at inserting her character’s ferret, Minx, riding on her shoulders.
I thought they looked great! “Yancy” carried an AK-74 (no, not a 47) and a 9mm pistol stuck in the waist band at his back. Tobi carried a 12 gauge pump shotgun which, if you look, is literally almost as long as she is tall!
Tim did his best to give them directions and got some good pictures, in spite of their giggling fits. Tim’s a great photographer and does engagement pictures, weddings, family reunions, portraits, graduation pictures, you name it he can do it. If you live around the Pensacola area and need some great pics, look him up on FaceBook.
“Just Us” should be out in November.
AD Faircloth, Pensacola, FL, 10/2014
Be sure and check out my webpage, anthonydfaircloth.com, for my other books and some short stories you’ll only find here.
OOPS!!
Hey, apparently I had my website set up to send notifications every time I posted something, which is a great idea, unfortunately I didn’t know it was set up until I received an eMail with no subject line and nothing in the body! The eMail also said something about 118 other people had received the notification. So… uh, sorry.
My intention is to update the website with short stories monthly, and to send out a quarterly newsletter. As a person who deals with hundreds of eMails weekly, both in my professional and personal life, I understand how just one more eMail can ‘be the straw’ so I apologize if my extra eMail caused you any stress. IF, I decide to alter my eMail and send notifications of webpage updates, I will let you know.
I appreciate your understanding and support.
Respects- Tony
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.- Stephen King
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Story Spotlight
Death on Blackwater Bay by Sylvia Melvin
Anger and resentment follow Otis Washington out of prison after spending eighteen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. Two days later the judge that sentenced him is found shot to death on his party barge on the Blackwater Bay. Was it a revenge murder?
Lieutenant Nick Melino of the Santa Rosa Sheriff’s Office, believes Otis was framed and pledges to help clear his name. A web of deception reveals several other suspects have their own reason to kill the judge, including an ambitious State Attorney, a low-life twin brother, and a Ponzi schemer.
Melino, determined to bring justice, follows the clues and his own intuition to unravel a drug trail, a case of mistaken identity, and a fraudulent investment company that leads to the acquittal of a man who should never have been accused in the first place.
You can find, Death on Blackwater Bay on Amazon, as well as other stories by Sylvia Melvin.