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A LITTLE SOMETHING ABOUT OUR BOOKS
If you’ve been on our blog before, you undoubtedly know that we are both writers. Between the two of us, we now have just over 25 books in print. In the beginning, we each began by writing poetry or at least what we considered to be poetry and our early books contained our poetic efforts. Then, for our first collaboration, we put out what we titled THE HINTS BOOK ALMANAC, books one and two. These two books contained about 2700 helpful household hints, categorized and alphabetized so the reader can easily find the exact hint that he or she is looking for.
We followed those two books with a children’s book titled ADVENTURES OF GIZZY, a story about our cat traveling about 10 miles through or around swampland to get back home after having been moved to a new home.
More recently, however, our books have been stories of a western flavor. Oh, but they’re not shoot-em-up, bang/bang type westerns. Of course, there is some of that, but we try to inject more in-depth characters who have a back-story. Although there is usually at least one love scene in each book, we try to dial them down, somewhat. It’s tricky, you don’t want them to be the same old mundane stuff, but we don’t want them to be overly explicit or exceptionally graphic either. We strive to attain a perfect mix.
We like using recurring characters, which was widespread in our 8 book CROW’S LAKE series, and continued in our 4 books and counting, CHAYCIN series. That all started in our private investigator series, CLOSED CASES, which had Stony Johnson, Donna Jones and Christy Christopher as the three main characters in all three books.
In the CROW’S series, books one and two pretty much centered around Bo Hasbrook and Lindsey Hanks. Lindsey’s uncle, Vern Johnson was mentioned, but he was already dead. Book two, was for the most part, a continuation of book one. Then, beginning with book three, each new book was sort of a “spin-off” of a character from the preceding book. Book three was a bit of a flashback to the 1890’s as it detailed the life of Vern Johnson. As an 18-year-old, Vern went into the mountains, seeking gold. He found it and a whole lot more. In that story, as in most of our stories, there is a limited amount of gunplay, but one of the lead characters will succumb to it. Later that death will be avenged as the perpetrators will meet their maker at the hands of a survivor of their treachery.
Books four and five continue to tell Vern’s story as he moves on from his gold mine, which he owned in partnership with Pappy Adams, to owning his own ranch, and falling in love. After introducing Pappy in book three he continues as a prominent character in books four and five, but became the title character in book six, PAPPY’S GOLD, a flashback to The Civil War days.
Pappy’s brothers Luke and Darvin, barely mentioned in the earlier books, will become mainstays in book seven BROTHER’S ADAMS, where they were the leading characters throughout the book. Leaving home as teenagers to join the Rebel army to fight against the north, they will eventually head west on a wagon train. Ultimately, they will become wealthy men and return to their southern roots purchasing a ranch near the family’s original homestead in Arkansas. They will continue expanding their holdings until they become the largest cattle raising operation in the entire state.
The eighth and final book in the CROW’S series, LAST RIDE, returns to the telling of Vern Johnson’s story as he moved into his sunset years, going from ranching to becoming a mainstay in the town he calls home. As the town marshal, he will help lead the town into the twentieth century wherein indoor plumbing, electricity and the horseless carriage will become common things.
We strive to inject both action and romance into each of our stories, as each day new stories begin to formulate in our brains and eventually find their way into the pages of a new book. As I’m writing this, we are putting the finishing touches on the fifth book in the CHAYCIN series, tentatively titled CHAYCIN PARADISE. At the same time, we are contemplating a sixth book, destined to be titled CHAYCIN something, although just what, is yet to be determined.
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Gramps use’ta say
©R.L.King2012 #508
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