Sad Story

The Lockheed Vega was quite an airplane. They looked pretty standard for airplanes of the 1930's but that was decieving. They out performed everything around during their day. Wiley Post set altitude and performance records in this airplane and eventually he and Will Rogers died in a Vega at Point Barrow Alaska.

The sad part. The airplane was such a great performer that they were bought up and lost during the Spanish Civil War. The last Vega was being flown by General Electric testing radar sites (The Vega being all wood had a very low radar profile.) The airplane. sold to a privite party for restoration, ground looped, crashed and burned in Florida during delivery. The last Vega.

Out of the long list of airplanes I have flown I never had the pleasure of flying this one.

Publishing Ice

Ice...A great thriller is being published by Books We Love Publishing Partners (BWLPP). So far a great publisher to work with.

You'll meet Morgan Garret, a former CIA operative, and Darcie Devonshire, a police detective. These two former lovers are thrown together after five years when the serial killer comes to their small central coast town.

There is Wes, Darcie's partner and Senator(Soon to be) Scarsdale and there is Darcie's basset hound.

The excitement builds as these flawed humans struggle to live their lives and hunt dawn a deadly killer.

Ice

Ice is a thriller about a female serial killer that we are expecting to be out in print and as a e-book before May. You want to read this one. It grabs you on page one and you won't want to put it down.

Dreary Daze

Winter, as rare as it is, has settled upon us here on the Central Coast. Normally this only lasts for a few days but it has stayed with us for more than a week and it is having a a bad effect on my creative juices. Shake it off boy!

"Ice" the novel I am joint writing with Barbara M. Hodges is now in revise status after a run thru by the publisher. Rewrite is a gang of fun. Ha! Well I must admit that the Editors suggestions were valid and the changes will make a better novel.

Speaking

I met a really nice group of people last Wednesday. They were interested in the written word, and they were a joy to spend time with. Thanks folks for giving us the time.

Selling the Word

In most cases writing the words down is far easier than selling the finished product. Part of the problem comes from the type of personality involved. A writer is by necessity a loner. A salesperson is outgoing and open. For most of most writers putting these two things together is the challenge.

Do I have a simple answer. No. The days when and agent did this for you are gone. So the only solution I have is keep on trying.

Moods

Having reached the age where I have to pay attention to what I do and what I eat I have recently modified my diet. The results of this modification seems to be an increase in creativity. Now that is not a bad thing. In fact it is good but troublesome. I have numerous story ideas running through my head when I need to be concentrating on the novel "Meltdown" which I am co-authoring with Barbara M. Hodges.

I have never suffered from a lack of story ideas; they seem to come easy to me. Some are based on past experiences, and some come from observed situations. Having a heavy background in action related events certainly helps.