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Margo Oxendine

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Description:From Allegheny Mountain Radio interview by Bonnie Ralston on 3/20/2013 Copyright 2013Bath County author Margo Oxendine has completed her first book, called A Party of One. It's a compilation of columns about her life that she's written for various publications. Oxendine grew up in Bath County and has worked interesting jobs that have taken her all over the country."I dove for sunken Spanish treasure," says Oxendine. "That would be the first thing on my resume." That was her job in Key West Florida after college. While she was there she also began writing at the age of 25."My writing career, shall we say, started one afternoon in Key West when I was working for Mel Fisher, the famous treasure hunter," says Oxendine. "And we had our offices on a replica of a Spanish galleon, since that's what we were looking for the real thing under the sea. So I was aboard the galleon one afternoon and a fellow swaggers onboard in a red bikini and two ammo belts crisscrossing his chest and chomping on a cigar. And it says a lot about Key West and perhaps myself at the time, that it did not strike me as the least bit odd. And that fellow was Bob Marks, he was a rival treasure hunter and he was also the Adventure Editor for rather a popular national men's magazine at the time called Argosy. And he was looking for someone to write Mel Fisher's life story and so he decided that someone was I."While in Key West Oxendine worked with a comedy troupe called Vital Signs. They wrote, acted and performed their own skits. With that experience she decided to break out on her own and she moved to San Francisco."So I decided I would become a professional comedian," says Oxendine. "I was really successful in Key West. It was fun and I thought Heck, this is the thing to do.' Because at that time Treasure Salvors had stopped, we had stopped, really finding a lot of treasure and there was hardly any money to pay us. We were getting paid in pieces of eight and seemingly worthless, there's a column about that in my book called Regrets: I Have a Few, seemingly worthless stock certificates."After finding that stand up comedy was not for her, Oxendine worked as a licensing agent for music copyright agencies BMI and ASCAP. She then went to work for a San Francisco magazine. A visit home to Bath County ended up lasting more than twenty years, when she landed a job with The Recorder newspaper. Oxendine has written about 800 columns and she narrowed it down to her favorite 65 for this book. With many more columns to choose from, she's planning Volume 2 which she hopes to have finished by late fall.A Party of One is available at The Recorder newspaper offices in Bath and Highland Counties. The cost is $21, including tax. [Email [email protected] to order. Yes, that's actually the correct email address!]"You can also flag me down and buy a book out of the back of my car if you like," says Oxendine.Click on this link to listen.http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvm...Copyright 2013We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Party of One, Volume 1. To get started finding A Party of One, Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 132

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Snowy Mountain Publishing, Inc., Monterey, Virginia

Release: 2013

ISBN: 0988792907

Description: From Allegheny Mountain Radio interview by Bonnie Ralston on 3/20/2013 Copyright 2013Bath County author Margo Oxendine has completed her first book, called A Party of One. It's a compilation of columns about her life that she's written for various publications. Oxendine grew up in Bath County and has worked interesting jobs that have taken her all over the country."I dove for sunken Spanish treasure," says Oxendine. "That would be the first thing on my resume." That was her job in Key West Florida after college. While she was there she also began writing at the age of 25."My writing career, shall we say, started one afternoon in Key West when I was working for Mel Fisher, the famous treasure hunter," says Oxendine. "And we had our offices on a replica of a Spanish galleon, since that's what we were looking for the real thing under the sea. So I was aboard the galleon one afternoon and a fellow swaggers onboard in a red bikini and two ammo belts crisscrossing his chest and chomping on a cigar. And it says a lot about Key West and perhaps myself at the time, that it did not strike me as the least bit odd. And that fellow was Bob Marks, he was a rival treasure hunter and he was also the Adventure Editor for rather a popular national men's magazine at the time called Argosy. And he was looking for someone to write Mel Fisher's life story and so he decided that someone was I."While in Key West Oxendine worked with a comedy troupe called Vital Signs. They wrote, acted and performed their own skits. With that experience she decided to break out on her own and she moved to San Francisco."So I decided I would become a professional comedian," says Oxendine. "I was really successful in Key West. It was fun and I thought Heck, this is the thing to do.' Because at that time Treasure Salvors had stopped, we had stopped, really finding a lot of treasure and there was hardly any money to pay us. We were getting paid in pieces of eight and seemingly worthless, there's a column about that in my book called Regrets: I Have a Few, seemingly worthless stock certificates."After finding that stand up comedy was not for her, Oxendine worked as a licensing agent for music copyright agencies BMI and ASCAP. She then went to work for a San Francisco magazine. A visit home to Bath County ended up lasting more than twenty years, when she landed a job with The Recorder newspaper. Oxendine has written about 800 columns and she narrowed it down to her favorite 65 for this book. With many more columns to choose from, she's planning Volume 2 which she hopes to have finished by late fall.A Party of One is available at The Recorder newspaper offices in Bath and Highland Counties. The cost is $21, including tax. [Email [email protected] to order. Yes, that's actually the correct email address!]"You can also flag me down and buy a book out of the back of my car if you like," says Oxendine.Click on this link to listen.http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wvm...Copyright 2013We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Party of One, Volume 1. To get started finding A Party of One, Volume 1, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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