April 9, 2023
The House of the Scorpion and The Lord of Opium have just been optioned for a TV series by Skydance Productions.
July 6, 2021
I am answering Jade's comment. I hope she finds this. I am 80 years old, in good health and from a family where the women live to be 100. Even so, I don't have the eyesight I used to have and it is difficult to write. I am working on a shortish book based on my childhood. It is a novel. I realized when I started it that I had an extremely unusual childhood and that a lot of things that were normal then would be absolutely forbidden now. Parents allowed kids to explore and didn't worry about danger so much. Thus I was allowed to rent rooms in a hotel full of really rough characters at the age of nine. I could go up to the roof of the hotel and jump from building to building in the middle of the night. I chased a truck spraying DDT to kill crickets and got covered in white powder. That sort of thing. So if the book ever comes out it will probably be labeled for young adults. Now, to answer Jade, I no longer have the energy to do a sequel to The Lord of Opium. I did think about Matt's clone/brother and guessed that he would grow up to be a lot like the original El Patron. He could cause a lot of trouble trying to take over Opium. But I feel I have finished the story with book #2.
MAY 24, 2018
NEW KINDLE EDITIONS
For the first time ebooks are available for Do You Know Me, now called Tapiwa's Uncle: Do You Know Me, and The Warm Place. Tapiwa's Uncle includes a chapter that is not in the print editions.
JUNE 26, 2013
FREE EBOOK!!!!
For a short time the ebook of A New Year's Tale will be free. I don't know when (or whether) I will do this again. We are going on walkabout next week. "Walkabout" is an Australian word for wandering without any schedule or destination, my favorite kind of vacation. When you book hotels or campsites you are put on a SCHEDULE and can't take advantage of a perfectly beautiful discovery because you have to move on. Harold worries that we won't find a place to stay at the last minute, but that's why God created sleeping bags. You have all kinds of adventures. Once I camped out on a lovely beach to wake up after the tide came in and I was floating away. Enjoy the ebook.
MARCH 3, 2013
This has alarmed the spirit world, from where our ancestors watch over us. In particular, the old gods of Africa are outraged by the lack of respect given to the elderly. Being spirit, they can do nothing physical, but they can recruit the living. They select five seniors to correct the situation. These five must elude capture and figure out a way to take over the government. The subject is serious, but the story is hopeful, upbeat and wickedly funny. If it does well I will put it out as an actual book.
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