The Books
My first book, Fly Like a Penguin, was published in 2004 by Authorhouse, and is still available for sale at the Authorhouse.com bookstore, and many other online stores, including Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
The second book, Fly Like a Penguin, Volume 2, The Smell of Evil, should be published sometime in 2010 (I hope), followed not too much longer after that by Volume 3, which doesn't yet have a subtitle.
Fly Like a Penguin was originally written as a stand alone book. I began writing it in my pre-computer days in my not very plentiful free time. My first two daughters were very young at the time, and I hoped to be able to read it to them when they were still in the read-to stage. However, as four more kids were being added to our household, time became even less plentiful, and the story didn't get completed for about 15 years.
More recently, I began to think there was more to the story, so I wrote Volume 2, and as that progressed I saw that it should become a trilogy. Some of you may be thinking I just wanted to be like Tolkien or the many other great novelists who wrote trilogies. Well, I don't think that's why I'm doing it. Whatever the case, that's the direction it's going, and I hope to have it completed by the end of 2010.
After that I hope the many other ideas trying to come together in the depths of my brain will find their way to the printed page.
The second book, Fly Like a Penguin, Volume 2, The Smell of Evil, should be published sometime in 2010 (I hope), followed not too much longer after that by Volume 3, which doesn't yet have a subtitle.
Fly Like a Penguin was originally written as a stand alone book. I began writing it in my pre-computer days in my not very plentiful free time. My first two daughters were very young at the time, and I hoped to be able to read it to them when they were still in the read-to stage. However, as four more kids were being added to our household, time became even less plentiful, and the story didn't get completed for about 15 years.
More recently, I began to think there was more to the story, so I wrote Volume 2, and as that progressed I saw that it should become a trilogy. Some of you may be thinking I just wanted to be like Tolkien or the many other great novelists who wrote trilogies. Well, I don't think that's why I'm doing it. Whatever the case, that's the direction it's going, and I hope to have it completed by the end of 2010.
After that I hope the many other ideas trying to come together in the depths of my brain will find their way to the printed page.