{"id":1549,"date":"2010-07-08T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2010-10-12T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T23:59:46","slug":"writing-and-riding-they-do-go-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/writing-and-riding-they-do-go-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing and Riding: They Do Go Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, you write about one book you read and before you know it you&#8217;ve become a book reviewer. At least that&#8217;s what has happened with me, and I have to believe there&#8217;s a connection.<\/p>\n<p>It started when I did a review of John Newkirk&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m3d21-Read-The-Old-Man-and-the-Harley-for-the-story-not-the-writing\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Man and the Harley<\/a>.<\/em> This was a book I bought because it sounded really good and I figured that maybe I&#8217;d be able to snag an interview with the author, considering that he lives here in the Denver area. I never asked for an interview because I found the book disappointing but I did publish a review.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/BlogPix\/VincentInTheBarn.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"The Vincent in the Barn\" \/>It wasn&#8217;t long after that when I was contacted by a rep from Motorbooks asking if I&#8217;d like to have some of their latest books to review. I said yes and so far I&#8217;ve received a variety, including such as <em>The Vincent in the Barn, Race Tech&#8217;s Motorcycle Suspension Bible, How to Restore Your Motorcycle,<\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m7d8-The-Devil-Can-Ride-Riders-can-write\" target=\"_blank\">The Devil Can Ride,<\/a><\/em> to name just four. So far I&#8217;ve posted reviews of three of these in various places.<\/p>\n<p>Next I heard from Cheryl Probst, who had just released her latest book, <em>Motorcycle Museums of the United Kingdom.<\/em> Would I like a review copy?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, you bet, though I haven&#8217;t had time to do much with it yet. I&#8217;m going to try to get to it soon.<\/p>\n<p>After that I heard from Avalon Travel asking if I&#8217;d be interested in reviewing Gary McKechnie&#8217;s latest motorcycle touring book, <em>Great American Motorcycle Tours.<\/em> Or would I perhaps like to have him do a guest post for any of my publishing venues. Yes and yes. Again, I hope to get to this soon.<\/p>\n<p>Finally&#8211;at least for now&#8211;I was contacted by a different rep from Motorbooks. I replied explaining that I was already dealing with another of their reps but it seems they put out enough different titles that they divide promotion among several reps. So Rep 2 can supply me with different books than Rep 1.<\/p>\n<p>OK, great, go ahead and send me <em>Motorcycle Journeys Through the Pacific Northwest , 2nd Edition.<\/em> I&#8217;ll add it to the stack. And I <em>will<\/em> get to it sooner or later.<\/p>\n<p>So look at this as sort of a heads-up. If there are any of these you&#8217;d be especially interested in hearing about let me know and I&#8217;ll move it to the top of the stack. Otherwise I figure I&#8217;ll keep plugging along until we get into winter weather, at which time I&#8217;ll have more time to read and there will be less going on in terms of rides and rallies and all those summertime motorcycle things we do. Then maybe I&#8217;ll have to start a book club.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent from National Motorcycle Examiner<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-378-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2010m7d8-The-Devil-Can-Ride-Riders-can-write\" target=\"_blank\">The Devil Can Ride: Riders can write<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>A skittish motor-bike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth&#8230; &#8211;T.E. 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