My First Three Books

Since I write books and other stuff, I thought I should have a page for my literary endeavors. Since late 2014, I've published three books. For years and years, I intended to write novels. In fact, my preparations date back to antiquity—almost. Then last year (2014), I said to myself, look at you! You better get going or you're never going to finish a novel. (I'm great at starting stuff-not so great at continuing and finishing stuff.)

So I wrote my novel number one. I had written a sixty page outline several years earlier. I self-published it on Kindle in September, and as a paperback shortly after.

Good and Evil on the Island of Dragons

Its name is Good and Evil on the Island of Dragons, and it involved a naive young lad who found himself shanghaied in a seedy port in the East Indies, set adrift in the shark-infested South China Sea in a boat that was sinking, and when he made it to a deserted beach without drowning or being eaten, he had to make it through a jungle infested with poisonous insects and snakes, and hungry predators. I went through all these trials with him—in a way.

Later, he faced ravenous Komodo dragons, pirates, and a civil war, and an old missionary who had lost his way and sided with the bad guys, and lest I omit anything, the place was ruled by a corrupt, cruel, and treacherous prince. He matured in only a few months, (the hero not the prince) but only because he survived. I almost omitted the fact, there was a girl.

I considered this a great adventure novel, but someone told me it was Christian fiction. Good and Evil on the Island of Dragons can be borrowed from the Show Low Library, or the Kindle version can be purchased from Amazon, or the paperback almost anywhere.

The Great Show Low Shootout

Over the years from 1985 to around 2000, I had written a number of short plays. Two of them had been produced by the Play Production class at Northland Pioneer College and broadcast over KVSL back when it was owned by Hugh Williams. When I reread them I liked them and decided to publish them. The Great Show Low Shootout is also available from the Show Low Library or from Amazon for the ebook, or most everywhere for the paperback.

I am seriously considering rewriting the ten plays as short stories, and adding a couple of others, under the same title, adding Short Story Edition.

The Captain's Daughter

In March of 2015, I published The Captain's Daughter, using my grandmother's name as a pen name. It is a historical mystery romance about a young lady in 1793's England anxiously searching for her identity and threated by unknown enemies who are intent on killing her for reasons unknown to her. It is available from Amazon, and as usual, the paperback you can order from many places.

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