What I Am Working On Now!

I’ve been asked about what project I am working on at this time? Actually, I am within roughly 50 pages of finishing a dream. The dream is my children’s (and adults, too) trilogy that began about eight years ago. It has been a long road to this point, but not because of a lack of desire to complete it.
Many good tales begin with the words, “Once upon a time…” I had written short stories for each of my four grandchildren’s birthdays. When their respective birthdays arrived, I would read the appropriate story to them. The stories were modeled on things that they liked at their ages at that time.
One summer day in the front yard of our home I was digging in a shrub bed next to my 10 year old grandson. He asked me if I had written a story for his younger sister’s upcoming birthday. I said, “No.” He said, “I wish you would. We really like your stories!”




Biff holding his latest manuscript An idea was born. Why not write an original story for them? In fact, why not write a book instead of a short story. I began the story and had written 170 pages of it when I hit the wrong key on the computer and lost half the story. No matter what I did to try and retrieve I could not get it back. Backing up everything you do is critical, but I had not done so. I felt like a fool. For months I was angry with myself. Then, one day, because I had roughly 90 pages of the original manuscript left, I decided to kick-start myself again. I began at that point and months later I finished the full story of about 330 pages. It is titled The Forest at the End of the World.

While writing the book I had the idea for a second and a third story. Looking through my records, I finished the second book of roughly 330 pages on March 31, 2014. The title for volume two is The Ocean at the Edge of Forever.
The third and final book is titled The Mountain of the King. The trilogy is unique in scope, and it will total about 1,000 pages altogether in three volumes. That’s manuscript-sized in page count. Page lengths may be different when printed.






These books are for children and adults. They may be read by both groups. In fact, they may be the most important books I will ever write. Why? You’ll simply have to read them when they arrive in the world. There are certainly enough bad things in the world to upset us…but these books? Well, they come from a very good source. Why do I mean? You may judge for yourself…