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AS OF MARCH 31, 2020
I RETIRED IN MAY 2010

  ABOUT FIFTY-TWO TITLES ONLY BUT THE ASIMOV BOOK IS 900 PAGES AND I WROTE TWELVE OF THE BOOKS MYSELF AND SOME ARE IN SPANISH.
ABOUT FIVE A YEAR ISN'T AS BAD AS I THOUGH.
Then again there are some cartoon books included.



ALSO NEW BOOK:


OOPS! Here are some more. That makes 52.
Read or Written
Must be more too.


AND NOW...





Planet Busters Final Cover.jpg

Over a City Bridge Cove Art again copy.jpg

Thomas Paine Common Sense.jpg
Sled Dog of Alaska.jpg
Read that a while ago.


Sally Fields Book Called In Pieces.jpg



Gone are the Days Cover for Web.jpg

Locuras Draft Cover For Web Page.jpg


I wrote (and read) more books after Escrituras above So they need to be counted.

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BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN
IN THE 10 SPANISH TITLES HERE, THERE ARE 249 CHAPTERS
IN SPANISH and I'm working on an eleventh AND IT'S FEB 24, 2023 TODAY.

IN SPANISH
1. Las misteriosas noches de antaño/The Mysterious Nights of yesterday, CreateSpace, 2012.

2. Recuerdo de Amnesia/Memory of Amnesia, CreateSpace, 2014.
3. Parece que fuera ayer/It Seems Like Only Yesterday, CreateSpace, 2017.
4. The Grass on the Hill Grows Green/El pasto en la colina crece verde, CreateSpace, 2017.
5. Over a City Bridge/Sobre un puente de la ciudad, CreateSpace, 2018.
6. Gone are the Days/Se han ido los días, Amazon Direct 2019
7. Escrituras y locuras/Writings and Rantings, Amazon Direct 2020
8. The Javelina Man/El hombre pécari, Amazon Direct 2020
9. Todavía verdes están mis recuerdos/Still Green Are My Memories, Amazon Direct 2021
10. The Red Hot Rooster/El gallo al rojo vivo, Amazon Direct 2021

IN ENGLISH
1. The Article Book, Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall/Regents, 1996, University of Michigan Press, 2000, Japanese edition
2. The Preposition Book, University of Michigan Press, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
3. Grammar/Writing Connections, University of Michigan Press, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
4. The Sands of Pima Arroyo, CreateSpace, 2011.
5. The Intersection, Seventeen Years of Bird Processing on One Street Corner of the World, CreateSpace, 2011.
6. Dung, a Light Roasting of Frank Herbert's Dune, CreateSpace, 2014.
7. Logbook from the Sea of Cortez, CreateSpace, 2015.
8. Planet Busters, CreateSpace, 2018.



The Article Book in all its manifestations Prentice Hall/Univ of Mich, Japan still makes me some money after 24 years.
It used to be #10 on Michigan's list of some 300 books.

The Preposition Book has caught up and makes about the same now.

Grammar-Writing Connections, en cambio, nunca ha tenido mucha gracia desafortunadamente. It makes next to nothin'!
THE ARTICLE BOOK   https://www.press.umich.edu/9180/article_book
THE PREPOSITION BOOK  https://www.press.umich.edu/182596/preposition_book
GRAMMAR/WRITING CONNECTIONS   https://www.press.umich.edu/233469/grammar_writing_connections

Dear Tom,

The Japanese version of The Article Book arrived last week and we were able to retrieve the paperwork related to it from our files with the details of the book in hand. It *was* an authorized edition that Kelly signed the attached agreement with Beret Publishing for. We did receive an advance of $2,500 from them back in 2007, $1,250 was shared with you according to the Business Office's records. However, the advance was never earned out and we received no further royalties - Beret appears to now be out of business and the copies available online are used ones. I attach the agreement we have with them for reference.

I hope that this gives you some peace of mind. The book was not pirated, thank goodness!

Charles
watkinc@umich.edu
BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN
IN THE 10 SPANISH TITLES HERE, THERE ARE 249 CHAPTERS
IN SPANISH
1. Las misteriosas noches de antaño/The Mysterious Nights of yesterday, CreateSpace, 2012.
2. Recuerdo de Amnesia/Memory of Amnesia, CreateSpace, 2014.
3. Parece que fuera ayer/It Seems Like Only Yesterday, CreateSpace, 2017.
4. The Grass on the Hill Grows Green/El pasto en la colina crece verde, CreateSpace, 2017.
5. Over a City Bridge/Sobre un puente de la ciudad, CreateSpace, 2018.
6. Gone are the Days/Se han ido los días, Amazon Direct 2019
7. Escrituras y locuras/Writings and Rantings, Amazon Direct 2020
8. The Javelina Man/El hombre pécari, Amazon Direct 2020
9. Todavía verdes están mis recuerdos/Still Green Are My Memories, Amazon Direct 2021
10. The Red Hot Rooster/El gallo al rojo vivo, Amazon Direct 2021

IN ENGLISH
1. The Article Book, Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall/Regents, 1996, University of Michigan Press, 2000, Japanese edition
2. The Preposition Book, University of Michigan Press, 2006, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
3. Grammar/Writing Connections, University of Michigan Press, 2009, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.
4. The Sands of Pima Arroyo, CreateSpace, 2011.
5. The Intersection, Seventeen Years of Bird Processing on One Street Corner of the World, CreateSpace, 2011.
6. Dung, a Light Roasting of Frank Herbert's Dune, CreateSpace, 2014.
7. Logbook from the Sea of Cortez, CreateSpace, 2015.
8. Planet Busters, CreateSpace, 2018.



The Article Book in all its manifestations Prentice Hall/Univ of Mich, Japan still makes me some money after 24 years.
It used to be #10 on Michigan's list of some 300 books.

The Preposition Book has caught up and makes about the same now.

Grammar-Writing Connections, en cambio, nunca ha tenido mucha gracia desafortunadamente. It makes next to nothin'!
THE ARTICLE BOOK   https://www.press.umich.edu/9180/article_book
THE PREPOSITION BOOK  https://www.press.umich.edu/182596/preposition_book
GRAMMAR/WRITING CONNECTIONS   https://www.press.umich.edu/233469/grammar_writing_connections

Dear Tom,

The Japanese version of The Article Book arrived last week and we were able to retrieve the paperwork related to it from our files with the details of the book in hand. It *was* an authorized edition that Kelly signed the attached agreement with Beret Publishing for. We did receive an advance of $2,500 from them back in 2007, $1,250 was shared with you according to the Business Office's records. However, the advance was never earned out and we received no further royalties - Beret appears to now be out of business and the copies available online are used ones. I attach the agreement we have with them for reference.

I hope that this gives you some peace of mind. The book was not pirated, thank goodness!

Charles
watkinc@umich.edu




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