For those of you who missed the #DeForestKelley Q&A sessions on January 10th and June 11th, here’s a treasure trove for you: all of my answers to fans’ questions, all in one place, including the name of the fan who asked each question. ENJOY! (Thank you to Lisa Twining Taylor and Rod Janpol for your[…]
You Can Go Home Again After the DeForest Kelley Q & A Facebook gathering on Saturday, June 11th (the 17th anniversary of his passing), I decided to break out the remastered STAR TREK DVDs that Anne Richardson sent me years ago to watch “a couple” of my favorite episodes that featured Dr. McCoy prominently.[…]
I’ve been in almost constant contact with Rod Janpol the past few days. He’s within easy striking distance of getting the final touches added to the tail end of the upcoming DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best audio book. He is meeting every[…]
If not for a question I couldn’t answer back in 2000, “DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best” probably would never have been written. When DeForest Kelley’s biographer Terry Lee Rioux asked me, “How did you go from being a fan–on the outermost reaches[…]
DeForest Kelley passed away in 1999. Still, every year, faithfully, Trek fans and western fans turn out in droves to extol the man’s virtues, excellence as an actor, and supreme wonderfulness as a human being, as well they should. The main reason I wrote DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest[…]
There has been a definite shift in the way I see and interact with the world as a direct result of the past several days. I’ll give some of the credit to having read The Fear and Anxiety Solution–again, a book I didn’t even know I needed and was reading to see if it[…]
I’ve extended the book launch campaign to January 21st for four reasons. First, the three-hour Q&A session yesterday was so much fun that we decided we should offer it again next Sunday. Second, most of the people who bought the enhanced/extended book this weekend (and didn’t own the original 2001 edition) hadn’t[…]
This week’s #DeForestKelley Tuesday Teaser Question is… “Why did DeForest Kelley introduce the author of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best as Krazy Kris at so many conventions and in his foreword to her book Let No Day Dawn that the Animals Cannot[…]
This week’s #DeForestKelley Tuesday Teaser Question is… Which fan club president’s purse was snatched and hidden by #DeForestKelley to freak her out? Excerpt from DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best. Join the pre-launch fun and the launch here on January 8th: https://www.facebook.com/events/899275163482654/[…]
Photos by Kristine M. Smith The following is excerpted from the upcoming book “DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal, A Harvest of Memories from the Fan Who Knew Him Best.” If you share it, please keep this leading paragraph with it. If you don’t, you will be violating my copyright–and I will have to[…]