July 2024 Newsletter

It is maddeningly hot here in central New England. We’re going on three straight weeks of official heat wave temps (90+°F). Aside from melting, I’m working on The Book of the Wounded Healers: A Study in Perception, a novel about communication and originally written in 1992 and reworked every few years since. My last posts on it are dated in late Spring-early Summer 2022. Each rewrite made it incrementally better and not enough. Thanks to some gifted reader-friends’ suggestions, I’m reworking with publication scheduled for late September-early October 2024. Leave a comment if you’d like to be a First Reader.

July-August 2024 Announcements

• SideHustles and Sidegigs – What do you do to support your art when your art isn’t supporting you? That’s the core of our discussion at our next RoundTable 360° meetup. Come & join us on Thursday, July 25th, 10:30amPT, 1:30pmET, 6:30pmLondonTime, 19h30 CEST.
  Reserve your space here.
• I’m hosting a writer’s month long workshop discussing many if not all phases of craft and storytelling. The next class runs Wednesdays, 7-28 August 2024. Sign up here.
• My Medieval mystery, Tag, is available at 99¢ Kindle, $12.99 Print now until 30 July 2024:
  

  Eric and Julia seek tree grafts on the outskirts of their medieval eastern European village as a summer storm gathers. Sullya, a witch hiding among the trees, grabs Julia. Eric swings his axe and severs Sullya’s hand from her arm. The witch seeks refuge in the deep bole of an old oak. Her hand falls onto the same oak and crawls up the trunk to join her.
  Eric wants to flee but Julia, believing they’re safe, torments the witch. Sullya curses them, their families, their crops, their livestock, and their village.
  Soon crops wilt, livestock die, and much of village falls ill. The village priest, Father Baillot, seems ignorant of church ways and proves ineffective against the curse.
  The village elders seek help elsewhere, specifically from a distant priest, Father Patreo, who knows the Old Ways as well as the New. Patreo is out of favor with the Church because he makes no effort to hide his belief that progress comes from exploring all paths, not just those the Church decrees acceptable.
  He and Verduan, one of the village elders, investigate and encounter witchcraft, devil worship, murder, a coup d’etat, and the clashing of three great cultures. What they discover changes the face of Eastern Europe forever.

• Last item – Have an announcement you’d like to include in my monthly newsletter? Leave a comment with details and we’ll see about getting it in the next one.

That’s it for July.

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