Rod Janpol is My Hero

  Rod Janpol is a working fool. And my hero.   One definition of a hero fits Rod exactly: “a person admired for outstanding achievements or noble qualities.”   Mr. Janpol has invested frighteningly-long hours engineering my upcoming audio book DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal From the Fan Who Knew Him Best. He took[…]

Who Will Finish First?

  It isn’t exactly a race, but I’m sitting here tonight wondering who will finish first…   As I tap this blog post into existence, Rod Janpol and Lisa Twining Taylor are hard at work putting the final touches on the two projects they’ve agreed to tackle for me: audio engineer in Rod’s case, and[…]

DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal

Audio, PDF Versions of ‘DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal’ Coming Soon

  In no time at all the audio book and PDF versions of ‘DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best’ will be available at YellowBalloonPublications.com.   Please note: These two versions are exclusive to Yellow Balloon Publications; they won’t be available via Amazon or  Createspace,[…]

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#DeForestKelley Up Close and Personal Audio Book Preview

Thank you, Rod Janpol, for the amazing job you did cleaning up the background noise and so many of the other glitches I introduced while recording this audio book.     This is a cliffhanger preview of the chapter “Happy Birthday to Me” from DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from[…]

DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal

DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal Audio Book Version

  In the next few weeks, I’ll be able to give you a definite launch date for the audio book version of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best. My friend (and yours, too, I’ll bet!) Rod Janpol is an audio tech in addition to being[…]