Section of new book

I thought I'd post a short section of a book I'm getting ready to submit for publication. I seem to have a case of "rewritise." Everytime I look at one my writtings I want to improve it. At some point I'm going to have to be able to say, "It's finished."

It took them a half hour to get to the falls but they had to stop and talk before they reached this point as the noise of the falls would prevent them from hearing each other. “When we get outside of the valley you two,” Joseph said as he looked alternately at Cephas and Jael, go up the trail where the trees come together and set up the net. We'll get in the bushes along the way and observe our young hunters as they approach. If we decide they should be captured I'll whistle like this. If they’re not to be captured Adina will jump out, making a lot of noise and run down the hill. She’ll slip as she runs along the narrow path above the deep water below the falls, where the surface of the water isn’t smooth. The path turns and will hide her from them. She’ll scream and fall into the water. She’ll stay under and swim behind the waterfall and wait for us. Hopefully the young men will think she has drowned and will go home.”
They managed to get into position before the two hunters could get past them.
As the young men came abreast of the bushes Adina, Jabin and her father were hiding in she jumped out before her father could stop her. She did this quickly and bumped into Abram, knocking him down. Shad attempted to leap over Abram to grab her, but in his haste to catch her he knocking Abram down, just as he was starting to get up. This resulted in both hunters being piled on top of each other on the ground. This gave Adina over a hundred feet head start.
“Well Jabin it's apparent that she didn’t take a liking to them,” Joseph said matter-of-factly.
“Yes, but it’s sort of strange for her to decide so abruptly and risk so much by almost getting caught. She doesn’t always seem to have good judgment," Jabin said.
"Let's wait and see what she has to say," Joseph replied.
Following a fruitless search for Adina the two hunters left the area. Everybody else stayed where they were until they left. When all was clear the men left the bushes and started towards the waterfall where they met Adina as she walked towards them from the direction of the waterfall.
"Adina, you have long been known as a woman of quick decisions but did you have to reject the two young men so rapidly,” Joseph said. “Did they have the wrong color hair or something? Perhaps they had the wrong type of clothes on?" This was asked with more than a bit of sarcasm in his voice. His daughter had disappointed him. He truly wanted her to accept one of the young men as her mate. He wanted her to take over as head of the group; he knew Jabin really wasn’t capable of running the valley and city properly, at least in his opinion.
"Father you saw what I did and yet you saw not,” Adina said. “While we were setting up our trap for the young men I got to thinking what would we do with two of them? Won’t their group come looking for them? It would be a catastrophic blow to them to have two young men missing at the same time. Also they appeared to be heading directly towards our eastern entrance. Even though the entrance to our valley is hidden behind the waterfall they could find it if they looked hard enough. I do like the looks of one of them. I’d be prepared to accept either one. I think we had better try and lure just one of them here. I don't know how we're going to do it yet, but I think we should discuss ways. I’m sorry to have messed up your capture but I feel it may be best this way.”
"Yes, your reasoning is sound, but you should have let us handle scaring them away," her father replied.
"If I'd have let you scare them away they would have found out something about our group. It’s best they only saw me and they think I'm dead.”

The Logging Town, an Excerpt

I'm going to post excerpts from my latest book concerning the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat. If anybody finds them interesting let me know. In any case, have a good day. The book involves the family's visit to the small logging town that Dan, the father, works in.


The bear reared up on its hind legs and growled at them. Curtis told Connie not to move. The bear would chase them if they ran. It continued to stand on his hind legs and roared once in awhile. Connie and Curtis stood where they were and watched the bear. The bear stood and watched them. They didn’t know what to do.
“Connie, hand me the string of fish. Do it slowly,” Curtis whispered.
“Here,” Connie said as she placed the string in Curtis’s left hand that he had stretched back to her. When he got the string of fish, he slowly pulled it up to where he could hold the string just a little ways above the fish with his right hand.
“If this works we’re going to turn around and climb up on top of one of these big rocks. Be ready when I say go,” Curtis said.
Curtis, without making too quick of a motion, flung the fish at the bear. The bear caught them in his mouth. At the very same moment, that the bear caught the fish in his mouth, Cosmic Cat leapt off a tall rock beside the bear and landed on the bear’s head. Before Curtis and Connie could successfully get out of the way, the bear let out a tremendous muffled roar, lowered his front paws to the ground and ran forward over Curtis and Connie with Cosmic Cat still on his head.
“Connie, are you hurt?” Curtis asked her.
“I don’t think so, at least not very much. I don’t seem to have any broken bones and I don’t think I’m bleeding. What about you?”
“I’m not sure. I have to look and see.”
They took turns looking at each other but could only find scrapes and abrasions with what may turn into some big bruises later. It was difficult to tell as they had cuts, abrasions and bruises on top of their old cuts, abrasions and bruises. As they were finishing their examinations, Cosmic Cat showed up. He was dragging the string of fish behind him. Members of his pride caught the fish and he wasn’t going to let the bear keep them if he could help it. He was a proud cat as he dragged the fish up to Curtis and Connie. He had saved the fish and provided food for his pride. He had done good.

Spent part of the day out in the garden getting it ready for a hard freeze tonight. This doesn't have a lot to do with writing but we all have to do odd chores. I'll be going over to a Wounded Warrior's facility tomorrow to help decorate Christmas trees. I did it last year and it was very worthwhile. I'm about half way through editing the third book in The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat. It's going smoother than I expected it to. I put it aside a couple of months ago to give it time to be somewhat forgotten so I could address it afresh. It seems to have helped. I hope that everybody had a good Thanksgiving and are looking forward to a great Christmas.

I've gotten myself into a difficult situation. I'm attempting to correct and revise a full length science fiction book as well as finishing the third book in a pre-teen series. I'm also attempting to complete a teen book about witches and warlocks with a few wizards thrown in for good measure. These last two require about twenty or so line drawings for each of them. I've got to reassess the situation and concentrate on one project at a time. I seem to have at least a half a dozen going at once. Oh, well it will all work out.

Today's thoughts

I worked in my garden today for awhile. I'm getting ready to put some tomato plants out. The heat may kill them but all I can do is try. I'm going over to the local library tomorrow to see if I can convince anybody to read my science fiction manuscript, "Triad." I'd like to get a few none family members to read it to see if it is any good. Hopefully, they will support me in their enthusiasm for it. I've also returned to the witch manuscirpt I'm working on. It's going to require a number of drawings of older witches. It should be both interesting and challenging.

Science Fiction Work Triad

I've been printing a copy of my recent science fiction manuscript - Triad. I'm going to make a run on getting about a-half-a-dozen persons interested in reading it for me. Wish me luck. This seems to be one of the hardest things to do-find readers for our work. Especially since we're advised to not have relatives read for us. I'm going to visit a local library and see what I can do. Visit with the librarian and, hopefully, she's friendly and will help me. I've also decided to return to the third Adventure of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat and see if I can get it finished--at least as far as the writing goes. The drawings are something else.

Anybody figure out had the "new" immigration law of Arizona is based on racial profiling. The vast majority of the people coming across the boarder are "white." How can a white racially profile another white? What's our country coming to.

It seems like I have good intentions but that's about all. I plan on keeping up a blog at least every-other day but it doesn't seem to work out. Has anybody been watching Glen Beck's Founding Father's Fridays? Every American should as it's one of the few places that the actual history of the founding of our country is being taught. I don't wish to demean those who are actually exposing others to the actual history but most of our educators don't know it themselves so they can't teach it.

I sent in the completed manuscript for my recent book, Triad, to a publisher. Anybody read any of my previous work? I hope to get back to doing the illustrations for my writing about an elderly family of witches, warlocks, and wizards. Everybody have a good day.