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PUTTING DOWN ROOTS
I still have about 1,200 books left in inventory and would love to send one to you. This web site is not sufficiently high-tech to sell you a book using your credit card so if you are interested in a signed copy, send me a check for $12 and I will mail you a copy within a week or two.
Make your check payable to:
Cliff Johnson
12820 Laurie Lane
Chaska, MN 55318
Be sure and tell me the name you would like my message written to.
Thanks for your order!
Cliff Johnson
P.S. Putting Down Roots makes a wonderful (and cheap!) gift for someone who loves gardening.
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I've been a writer all my life. Even before majoring in journalism at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s, I understood that I had more God-given gifts and talents in the field of communicating and writing than in math or science.
While my career has focused on business writing for clients, I have always enjoyed writing letters, stories and non-profit articles for various associations and organizations. For many years I had a rather vague vision of publishing a book...maybe the next "Great American Novel," or perhaps a biography on somebody famous.
In the mid-1990s, the managing editor of the Chaska Herald newspaper invited me to begin writing a biweekly newspaper column on gardening. My first column (posted elsewhere on this site) was published in April 1995.
One day in 1998, my vague book vision became crystal clear. By then I had nearly 75 published columns stored on my computer as Microsoft Word documents. I also worked with QuarkXPRESS software every day to produce client newsletters and product literature. Publishing a book, I realized, could be as simple as formatting the gardening columns in book form using Quark's book-publishing capability. I eventually arranged 65 columns into a 166-page soft-cover book.
It was an exciting and somewhat scary day when I inserted a couple of floppy disks and a personal check into an envelope addressed to a printing company I knew only from a half dozen phone conversations. Three weeks later, an 18-wheel semi truck backed up to my garage and unloaded 96 cartons of Putting Down Roots!
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