Re: Laid off, now what?

**"Tom Ogren" t*@earthlink.net**

Thank you, Margaret, for passing along that information about E. Annie
Proulx. I thought that Shipping News was a marvelous book, and it is so cool
to read that she was a garden writer first, a novelist second.

Tom Ogren
Ps. Perhaps you ought to run with the book about the life and career of the
19th century theatrical manager who > brought good theatre to the moving
frontier .......sounds like a story worth telling....another Seabiscuit?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum"
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Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Laid off, now what?

> At 01:18 PM 9/1/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >That hits close to home for those of us in Southern California who went
> >through the same process with the San Diego U-T, and I went through it
> >with my local paper, the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Our separation here
> >in SoCal was based on those papers archiving and reselling our work
> >without our permission and with no recompense for it, and asking us then
> >to sign all rights contracts or leave.
> >
> >In my case the garden editor called me several times afterward about
> >various questions and while I was polite, I declined to help her. And to
> >add insult to injury, for some weeks after I was canned, the paper still
> >ran a tag line advertising my column, exhorting readers to read all
> >about  growing flowers, in my column, Flower Power. I asked them to
remove
> >that since they were no longer buying the column and they apologized.
>
> They are doing that with me, too.  My columns are still online, and on the
> front page of the features section, left hand column, they urge readers to
> go online and see my back columns.  I have a call in to the office
> manager.  Frankly, I've been writing this column for 9 years and 10
months,
> and I don't recall ever signing anything giving first NA rights, much less
> electronic rights.  I'm going to be nice about it because looking at the
> features section, I think the young ladies in charge are short
> termers.  I'd like to go back, but I have other things to do too.
>
>
> >My  brother lives in Boise and I always made a point of reading your
> >column when I was up there.
> >
> >But there's life after getting the boot. Believe me--there are propbably
> >better things out there than The Statesman.
> >
> >
> >Gerald Burke
> >Freelance Writer
> >Gardening and Travel
>
> We lived in Riverside from 66 to '71, then moved here.  I thought the
> Press-Enterprise was a very good newspaper, but they've obviously lost
> their marble.  I just finished reading "Into the Buzzsaw" with a piece by
> David E. Hendrix about his covering the TWA flight 800 crash.  If the
other
> city papers were doing what they ought, they wouldn't leave it up to a
> smallish newspaper on the other coast to cover it.  I grew up in Boulder,
> Colorado, home of 125 mph winds from time to time, and got a degree in
> Journalism from the U. of Colorado.  I think the winds accounted for the
> fact that there were no plant nurseries there.  Riverside was the first
> place I had lived where I could go roam among plants, studying tags, etc.,
> and trying to educate myself about plants.  When we moved here we bought
> the largest lot we could afford so I could have a large garden.
>
> I've subscribed to Gardens online for years, and one of the most
> knowledgeable people who participated was Glenn Park of Riverside.  Then
he
> was arrested for kidnapping a child, and apparently sent to prison.  A
very
> sad situation.  Apparently he had owned a nursery in Riverside, but I'm
not
> sure where it was located.
>
> I do know there are other things to do.  For one thing, did you know that
> E. Annie Proulx, author of "The Shipping News" (for which she won the
> Pulitzer Prize) and "Accordion Crimes" among other esteemed works of
> fiction, was originally a garden writer?  She wrote numerous articles for
> Horticulture magazine, plus some garden books.  I have her books, "The
Fine
> Art of Salad Gardening" and "The Gourmet Gardener."   I don't have
> pretensions to jump into fiction writing, but before I was offered the job
> of writing the garden column, my husband and I had accumulated copious
> notes on the life and career of a 19th century theatrical manager who
> brought good theatre to the moving frontier.  He's now retired from
> teaching theatre arts at Boise State University (UC Riverside when we were
> there), and we ought to get back to that project.
>
> Thank you for your note.  Margaret Lauterbach
>
>
>
>
>
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