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Cap’n Meryl’s Musical Debut

mar-23-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-03-21-ask-the-captain_x.htm
Cap’n Meryl’s Musical Debut
For some reason, the past couple of weeks inparticular, I’ve had a few dozen people write tome, telling me they had finally listened to theaudio clip on my book page and as a result ordered“The World At My Feet.”
Whether or not you’ve read my book, this clip isworth listening to. It’s about 7 ½ minutes longand is a REALLY funny excerpt from a radiointerview I did in 1983, before I was with mycurrent airline. It has to do with a run-in I oncehad with the Goodyear Blimp when I was a militaryair traffic controller.
There were four hours of interviews (two two-hourshows) which I have now edited down to about 2 1/2hours, cleaned up with all the commercialsdeleted. Here is a link to the page with theaudio excerpt:http://www.fromthecockpit.com/book.htm
I’ve unexpectedly had several requests by readerswanting to buy the entire interview, […]

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Cap’n Meryl’s new Book

mar-15-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-03-14-ask-the-captain_x.htm
Cap’ Meryl’s New Book!
I’m happy to report that I’ve reached an agreement with a major New York publisher regarding a newbook. When I went to New York a week or so ago tomeet with my agent and some publishers, the goalwas to get my first book “The World At My Feet” re-released by a major publishing house. “TheWorld At My Feet” was first released by the LorriePress, which I own, making it an independentlypublished book.
Although it continues to sell very well through mywebsite www.fromthecockpit.com, through Amazon.comand other online book outlets, and throughnumerous airport and other bookstores, I wanted tosee it go into mass distribution. This reallyneeds to be handled by a mainstream publisher.
The result of these meetings was somewhatunexpected. Every publisher I met said pretty muchthe same thing, that they loved “The World At […]

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Bit O’ Bavaria

mar-10-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-03-07-ask-the-captain_x.htm
Bit O’ Bavaria
This was certainly an interesting week. Itstarted with a trip to New York to meet myliterary agent for the first time face to face.Together we visited some major book publishers inNew York to see about getting “The World At MyFeet” picked up for mass distribution. It was anexciting trip as we visited parts of New York I’dnever seen before. Also, although I’ve ridden thesubway in many parts of the world, including suchcities as Moscow, Paris and London, I’d neverridden a New York subway. Chalk up another firstfor Cap’n Meryl!
Feedback was good so we’ll see if a deal can bereached or not. No guarantees. I’m still afirst-time (but not a last-time) author and that’salways a tough sell.
Because our last meeting ran late in the day, Imissed the last flight to Denver and opted tospend one […]

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Keep Your Pants On—Please

mar-1-2005 By

FROM CAP’N MERYL
Link to this week’s column at USAToday.com/travel:
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/columnist/getline/2005-02-14-ask-the-captain_x.htm
“Keep Your Pants On—Please!”
This week’s column at USAToday.com (through the abovelink) features a brand new section of my Photo Gallery,called “A Much Younger Cap’n Meryl.” To go directly tothis Album now click here: http://www.fromthecockpit.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=13Some, but not all, of these picture appear in “TheWorld At My Feet.”
Because I am still on vacation and not having anycurrent flying adventures (or misadventures), I thoughtI’d take this opportunity to tell you about a flightwhen I was a pilot in Alaska for a long-gone companycalled “Wien Air Alaska.” “Wien” is pronounced Weenand is the family name of the brothers who founded theairline.
Before I go on, though, I always like to mention inpassing that a Wien pilot once showed me his pilot’slicense, signed by Orville Wright. I know I’m old, butnot THAT old. It’s just that we sometimes forget, Ithink, how […]

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