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My Three Daughters.

I feel so fortunate that I  will have two novels published this year, The 53rd Parallel in early May, and Anung in August. And it's a greater delight to have my three daughters involved in this work with me.   My eldest, Sarah Rose, is a poet who will have her first book of poetry published this year. Best Bones won the 2013 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press.   With her permission I have included some of the lines from her poetry in The 53rd Parallel.  She also built this website for me.   And just last week it was decided by the publisher that Brita, the second oldest, a talented designer and artisan,...

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One more time.

I love rock music.  There are few I envy but near the top of the list is the front man of a hard rocking band who calls out "One more time" because he feels how much the boys behind him want to hit it again. Well, I get to hit it again. Just when I thought my work on 'The 53rd Parallel' was over as a writer of it, I discover I have a final author's duty to take a close read of the ARC preview edition, the novel published as a book for the first time. ARC's are printed in very limited numbers for two purposes--as an Advanced Reader Copy to garner reviews, and to be read for last chance edits...

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I lost the completed manuscript.

One of the reasons I am so fond of 'The 53rd Parallel' is that I've written it twice. Actually I have written it 100 times, I am such a determined re-writer, and since it still isn't printed it's very possible I am still looking for some way to improve it. But I had finished the book and I had moved on to the second novel of what is now 'The River of Lakes' series, and I had finished it as well, including the 100 rewrites.  I had just started the third book of the series when one morning I sat down to get to work and no sooner had my PC fully booted itself--this was 2008--than my desktop icons began to disappear,...

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