What’s Going On
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Our site’s up and running, and we’re officially in the publishing business!
Mostly we’ve been writers who have published our own books for family consumption, but since the Civil War diary of my great, great grandfather, Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan (Union) went on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum, we’ve been getting a lot of interest in the story of this family. Having two books published and three more in various stages of writing/publishing, we decided to launch SGR Publishing, to formally offer the stories to a broader audience.
Here’s the lineup:
Yesteryear by Jeff Stewart, published in 2005
Yesteryear, The Next Generation by Wayne Stewart, published in 2016
Mentoring Intentional Excellence by Wayne Stewart, to be published in 2017
Passing The Torch by Wayne and Dottie Stewart & Bruce and Lisa Stevenson, to be published in 2018
The Vaughans of Texas by Wayne Stewart, a history of the 8 generations of Texans, to be published in 2017
And then there will be the “Yesteryears” of future generations.
Please let us hear from you at wayne@sgrpublishing.com or through the “Contact Us” feature here on the website.
Best,
Wayne Stewart
your dads book has brougth back some old and wonderful memories. i moved from newcastle after graduation and have lived in hurst sence. when you have time give me a call. 817-239-4128
your dads book has brougth back some old and wonderful memories. i moved from newcastle after graduation and have lived in hurst sence. when you have time give me a call.
wayne, if you had a uncle named bobby joe and a great aunt named jessie duckworth i thank we are cousins. if you do i have a list of stewarts going back to 1781. please e-mail me with answer.
Counting down the days until IT’S HERE!
On June 15th, Wayne Stewart’s new book, Mentoring Intentional Excellence, A Guide for Early- and Mid-Career Professionals will officially launch. Take a look at the new page that previews the book’s cover. The book will be available from numerous outlets, in both print and electronic formats. You can pre-order a print version through Amazon at
https://www.amazon.com/Mentoring-Intentional-Excellence-Mid-Career-Professionals/dp/0997445017.
Or you can wait until June 15th to order through our website.
Either way, I hope you’ll enjoy my new book.
Wayne
Book sales are picking up, which is nice, and we’re uploading some great photos on our “8 Generations” page, so stay tuned for the new items of interest. We continue to improve the website based on your comments, and we’re exploring adding some new authors to the “Generations of Texas” family.
My business book is off to the editor and we should be ready to announce it formally within a couple of months. It’s a compilation of lessons learned from Wayne’s almost 50-year career, based on real experiences in running organizations and businesses, large and small. I think it’s going to be really good. Check back to hear about the new book.
Best news of all, though, was the discovery of a long-lost relative, Wesley Vaughan and his wife Marjorie. They were on the web doing some family research and found our website. He contacted me and we’ve gotten acquainted. What a great discovery!!
Thanks for checking in with us.
Wayne
Wayne,
I hope you remember the early 1960’s in Corpus. This is Pete Foster checking in from Houston, TX. My brother Mike (also in Houston) found this website about you and your Dad’s books while surfing the web about some of our old friends from Corpus.
We were in the process of settling our Dad’s estate (he died at 94 in Feb. of this year) and got to thinking about all the places we had lived and friends we made over the years.
Sounds like your second career as a writer has been very successful.
I remember touching base with you in Dallas sometime in the mid 1970s when you were still with TI and working on all those secret government contracts and Vicki had just married that minor league baseball player. After I finished Law School at SMU & passed the Bar in 1975, I worked in Dallas for a couple of years for an Oil Company before I moved back to Houston to take a new job in 1977. I have stayed in Houston for the rest of my career except for a 3 year stop with an Oil Company back in Corpus from 1989 to 1992.
Going back to Corpus after 25 yrs. was pretty strange. Quite a few of the guys we went to Jr. High with were still in town and were lawyers, business owners, etc.
I still remember those great days growing up in our neighborhood in Corpus playing all those sports with the neighborhood gang in Brawner parkway and paying little league baseball.
Mike and I remembered your Dad when we sent in our paperwork to cash in one of Dad’s old life insurance policies with John Hancock which I am sure he bought when he was working for your Dad.
I got married to a lady named Dorothy in 1981 and we have a daughter, Sarah, who lives in NYC with her husband, and a son, David, who lives here in Houston with his wife and our now 15 month old first grandchild, William.
I am still working in the oil business (I will turn 69 on Monday) but I think 1 more year will be about it for me. I am looking forward to being a full time grandfather after that.
If you have time drop me a line at my personal email, pwfoster75@gmail.com. I would love to get a copy of you and your dad’s books so if you could send me a link on where to get one it would be appreciated. If you ever get to Houston, I would love to have lunch and catch up. My cell phone is 832-627-8819.
Very Best regards,
Pete
Thanks to all our website “beta testers.” Your suggestions are being implemented. In particular:
o We’ve corrected several errors pointed out to us. Thank you!
o We’ve reduced prices and removed automatic shipping.
o We’ll be adding more pictures and information on the “8 Generations” page.
o Our next book, “Intentional Change,” has gone off to the editor/designer/printer, with a target release date late first quarter. A book of Lessons Learned and Intentional Change in the world of high tech business, it will challenge your concepts of management and executive leadership.
o We’ve fully tested the commerce system, and we’re now taking orders for books and shipping them within two days. We appreciate those who have bought already, and we’re encouraged by all the site traffic and interest.
o We’re opening discussions to add a couple of new titles that will expand your view of the 8 generations story.
Thanks again, and stay tuned for more to come.
Wayne
Awesome Wayne. Quite an inspiring project. I look forward to digging in