Terry Calderwood, September 29, 2016

Posted on Oct 02, 2016
 
Terry Calderwood
Retired from being an attorney in Maine and decided to write a book.
Nov 24, 2010 article in the Camden Herald
2 things happening – He was retiring as well as the Police Chief Phil Roberts.  Camden Herald wrote an article about the retirement of these two folks.
 
Reichenfall’s Dream
Three elements unique to Camden
  1.  Many scenes of Camden in the book – Maidens Cliff, downtown, restaurants, post office, etc.  All fictionalized of course.
  2. Family is extremely important in small towns – families have a sense of public service.  Looked at how family can be involved in the community in a somewhat evil way.
  3. Degree to which you can live in small town and be impacted by things that are national or international.
 
Found letters from his father sent to his parents during the war.  They were heavily censored.  Gave him the baseline of evil that he was basing the evil on in his book. 
 
Terry feels like he bit off more than he could chew – in reference to selling his book.  He enjoyed writing it, but selling it has been no fun at all. 
 
He retired early so that he wasn’t traveling from Camden from Nashville all of the time.  He didn’t realize how difficult and expensive it is to get authors insurance.  You have to provide 2 years of tax returns.  He wasn’t interested in doing that.  His atty had to read and sign off on the book – he didn’t want to pay an atty to read his book.  Still not sure that he’s going to publish his book due to the challenges.
 
He wrote a novel that his father inspired – he’s 13 years older than his father was when he died.
 
Q&A
If you wanted to seek a publisher would the self-publishing issues fade away? Yes – but people would wait 5-10 years for a literary agent.  The agents only read the first couple of paragraphs or pages.  The volume of books being produced in extraordinary. It is very difficult to get a book published.
 
Are any members of West Bay Rotary included in this book?  No all characters are all fiction
 
Mark Masterson – Saturday morning, 9 am, snowbowl for maintenance.4
Road Rally – How many people might be interested in a leaf peeping, road rally. Poker run – sign up on the paper circulating. 2 hours long – October 23.
We raised $80.15 to purchase size 17 shoes for a gentleman – We want to raise more $$ to purchase more shoes for the gentleman at the Hospitality House.
 
Don’t forget to check out the new club calendar – westbaycalendar.com
 
Awards – 2nd Place for Civic & Community Service – Best of the Best.  November 16 at the Samoset.  Great opportunity to promote the club.
Camp Capella – Community Service Award to West Bay Rotary.
 
District Assembly – Saturday, October 29 – just one day.
Leadership Institute –
Polio Walk – Date forthcoming
 
Pints against Polio – maybe we can copy this here in the community.
 
Shelter Box for Tanzania – Discussed the possibility of a shelter box at International Committee meeting.
If we contribute to a shelter box it goes into a central depository for shelter box and they choose where it goes.  The international group didn’t think a $1,000 gift would be the best way to go.  They would like to do something with a more direct impact.
 
Heidi Karod – West Bay has been very supportive of Youth Exchange for many years.  One of the great manifestations of international service.  The number of students has been dwindling – 7780 has no exchange program anymore.  In all of Maine, we only have 4 long term students.  Struggling with leadership for this program at the district level.  Our district chair, Sue Wood, is no longer going to do it – Heidi cannot do it.  They’re going to take a year off of the long term program.  Joan Fopp from the Camden Club will take Sue Wood’s role for short term programs.