Yesterday Alva had a terrible day. Her computer crashed. Worse yet it was Alva’s digital designer’s last day of contract. Yes, the end of this week Karen takes off for Pratt Institute to complete a Masters Degree in Art and Digital Design. Alva and I are sure going to miss her! Thank goodness she has promised to come back whenever she can.
So the plan yesterday had been to spiffy up the website a bit and get out Alva’s first email campaign announcing the availability of Jolt: a rural noir in ePub and Mobi eBook forms. Didn’t happen. And we are still picking up the pieces from the effects of the computer crash. It’s been restored and is working well, but some of the files we wanted to maintain are gone. So that’s this morning’s project. Restoring them.
As for the earthquake, Alva felt the rumblings here in Poughkeepsie. People in the buildings nearby had emptied into the street looking for the explosion. Seeing there had been none, we then happy-guessed it must have been an earthquake, and were we right!
See the map in the paper yesterday of the area affected? Why it was the whole East Coast! Luckily, however, nothing major. You see our worry is that Indian Point Power Plant sits on a fault line and now today I see that in North Anna, 40 Miles North of Richmond, VA, has been put on alert until it is completely confirmed that the plant has not been damaged by the tremors. Also today on WSJ.com there is a map of Tuesday’s earthquake. I looked and I counted twelve that reported ‘unusual event.’ Check it out yourself at http://online.wsj.com/article. You can find the map under the interactive tab associated with today’s article. Then next, contact Alva at alvapressinc.com for your copy of Jolt: a rural noir.
No kidding. Do order your copy of Jolt at alvapressinc.com. Great book. Great characters. And chuck full of facts related to ionizing radiation and emergency response in the event of dirty bombs or a nuclear plant meltdown. The fifteen members of the Vergennes, VT, all purchased and read it, after which they Skyped an interview with me, its author. Great discussion. Love’em all!
But then friends there told me that after the Fukushima meltdown, they returned to read it for a review of pertinent survival facts. You see they worry about the Vermont Yankee Plant going down and just as Roberta found, being informed helped them quiet unnecessary fears while helping them to also form plans as to what to do ‘just in case.’
So if you know anyone who lives near any of those twelve plants with ‘unusual events’, have them contact Alva Press, Inc. and get a copy of Jolt: a rural noir, now available in Trade Paper Back, Hard Cover, and ePub and Mobi eBook forms. And the best part of it is, you can enjoy the story and its colorful cast of characters as you learn.
Roberta M. Roy in Po-Town, On a mission
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