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Good 8/4/2015 morning,
Everything I read is about getting your name and the names of your books out there. 1/3 of your work dedicated to writing your books and 2/3 to promotion. So here I am, writing my 4th book and now on multiple websites, Facebook and twitter accounts to boot. I am a private person, never thinking that I would one day be doing this, but I enjoy the writing and if I ever become successful, this is how it all began.
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I have written two books, A Deep Purple Hue and A Retail Investigator. Sitting with Jimmy was a short story based on my love for that cat; that in the beginning I wanted nothing to do with. I have to tell you what an amazing experience it is to live in your imagination so much every day after 32 years in the real world. My current book, An Angry Orange sky, (I think) is going to be a fantastic read. I have thoughts about my next Gordan Hudde book already brewing. The main character is not superhuman, he possesses no special powers; he is a guy that trained hard and is completely comfortable with danger. That’s not to say he doesn’t plan or isn’t afraid at times it’s just that he expects it out of life. A point where he and I are the same is the people explaining to him “you can’t do it” and he will not give up. Also in my writing (so far) I am not eagerly trying to wow the reader with the “Oh I didn’t expect that” moment, I would rather have the reader see the problem and then try to figure out how to solve it themselves; how does Gordan Hudde solve it is the mystery and how well does it get solved? Please by all means read my books, and then review them; I’m not ready to give up and your review may be the one that helps me get over a hurdle.
Thanks.

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I can’t remember not liking to read, my memory doesn’t go back far enough. I loved riding my banana seat, five speed bike up to the town library to pick out a selection. (I wrote a bit about this in Hint of Silver)

I think the first series that I remember getting into was the Hardy boys; kids just a little older than me being able to solve crimes that the adults couldn’t solve or didn’t even realize were happening.

I found The Man of Bronze, a 1930's hero that traveled the world with his team of experts to fight evil; he was kind of a Batman like character.

Who doesn't like Tarzan; Edgar Rice Burroughs and his hero John Carter on Mars, I began gravitating towards powerful men who got things done through grit, determination, and sheer force of will.

One of my high school friends father gave me The Green Ripper by John D. Macdonald (he wrote the novel that became the movie Cape Fear) and I was hooked on Travis McGee the larger than life hero of that series.

Sure I strayed and read some Steven King and while in the military I read quite a bit of William W Johnstone but I quickly came back to Jack Ryan, Jack Reacher, and Mitch Rapp.

I desire to do them all proud when writing my Gordan Hudde series, whether the books ever sell or not, these men influence my writing and I enjoyed all those hours of leaving my own body to fight cruelty, injustice, and evil through the supermen that they gave us.

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I had a reoccurring dream last night.
I show up at a military base and first search frantically for my barracks, finally finding it I wait to see the CO. When I get to my locker, none of my uniforms have been sewn up and patched out-meaning name badge, unit patch, jump wings, and rank are not on the uniform. Of course this means I’m totally unprepared and will get in trouble.

Crazy, like you don’t have the opportunity to fail enough in real life, my brain makes me face this during sleep. Maybe I’m stressing about the future?

Speaking of the future, my next installment of the Gordan Hudde series is pretty much plotted out and I feel the same passion that I have of the others, a very good thing; but I keep running into our election and my strong feelings about it.

While I daydream about scenes to write and direction/tone of the future book AN EMERALD ABYSS, I have written almost nothing in October.

Maybe that’s the reason for the dream.

Gordan Hudde would not approve.