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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Are you referring to the 560 page
<i>Lew Wallace, Militant Romantic</i></span> <span style="color:#1F497D">by Robert Eustis Morsberger, published in 1980? During his time as</span>
<span style="color:#1F497D">governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1878 to 1881, Wallace negotiated with Billy the Kid and completed the manuscript for
<i>Ben Hur</i>, before repositioning to Constantinople in part as a reward from President Garfield for the inspiration of
<i>Ben Hur</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Wallace is noted for having written the following to his wife regarding his successor and imminent New Mexico departure: ``Of course, he will do just as I did, have the same ideas, make
the same attempts, and with the same heartiness of effort, soon cool in zeal, then finally say, `All right, let her drift’. All calculations based on our experiences elsewhere fail in New Mexico.''<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John Mugford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> studiotalk [mailto:studiotalk-bounces@islemail.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Coffman, Linden<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 09, 2018 10:11 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TBBS Recording Studio Info<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] Re: [Studiotalk] Long titles - any suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Unfortunately, I have no volunteers who read more than once a week so that is not an option. The book I have in mind is an extensive biography of Lew Wallace, Civil War General and author of Ben Hur.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1F3864">Linden Coffman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indiana Voices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indiana State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Talking Book & Braille Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">315 West Ohio Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indianapolis, IN 46202<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">317-232-3683<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">E-mail: lcoffman@library.in.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> studiotalk [mailto:studiotalk-bounces@islemail.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mugford, John, DCA<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 09, 2018 11:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TBBS Recording Studio Info <studiotalk@islemail.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Studiotalk] Long titles - any suggestions<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Generally, subject matter, rather than length has proven more dissuasive concerning project acceptance in my experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> Having said that, I am aware that New Mexico’s longest project of late has been about 20 hours in length (about 450 pages) and met with some volunteer despair in the reviewing portion. That project
took about one year, four months to complete.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"> How lengthy of a project are you considering? Matching subject matter to volunteer interests (preferably a volunteer, who regularly reads more than once a week) may present a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">John Mugford<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regional Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">New Mexico Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> studiotalk [<a href="mailto:studiotalk-bounces@islemail.org">mailto:studiotalk-bounces@islemail.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Coffman, Linden<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 09, 2018 8:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:studiotalk@islemail.org">studiotalk@islemail.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXT] [Studiotalk] Long titles - any suggestions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This morning’s question involves long titles and how you handle them? Do any of you have trouble when it comes to selecting long titles and then finding a volunteer to take one on? Do you have any suggestions as to how to present a title
to a volunteer narrator when you know they may be in the book for a long time? I have at least one title that I have which could take as long as two years to complete that I would like to do, but I often have trouble getting people to commit to a book for
that length of time. Anybody else run into this problem?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Brush Script MT";color:#1F3864">Linden Coffman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indiana Voices<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indiana State Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Talking Book & Braille Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">315 West Ohio Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">Indianapolis, IN 46202<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">317-232-3683<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face","serif";color:#385623">E-mail:
<a href="mailto:lcoffman@library.in.gov">lcoffman@library.in.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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