BOOK TWO PREVIEW

09/21/2011

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I decided to put Chapter One of the second Bruce DelReno Mystery on Goodreads as a free preview.  
The book is tentatively titled  Stinger and you will understand why if you read chapter one, but not understand entirely.
Surely you will after chapter two, which is written, but not posted anywhere yet.  
This is the link for the preview:
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/279644-stinger-a-bruce-delreno-mystery

The title is tentative, and the entire chapter is subject to editing depending where the story takes me.
I understand some authors map out the entire book, then write following the outline.
Not me, and I've heard many other authors.  Of course I have basic ideas for the characters and the plot, so many that I have to choose the exact course as I go along.

I'm so excited about a lot of things.  Getting Stinger off the ground is one.  I shot a round at even par last week.  The D-Backs are about to clinch their division.  100 degree days are probably over.  Much happiness and excitement to y'all.
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BRUCE DELRENO MYSTERY VOLUME TWO

09/10/2011

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I finally began work, actual writing of the next Bruce DelReno Mystery.  Many ideas got tossed around in my head since Willowtree was finished, some evolved to notes on paper.  Chapter two is nearly complete, and so far Bruce found only one body.  Otherwise, all I will say about volume two, tentatively titled Stinger, is there will surely be lemonade.  Reviews of Willowtree will influence the new story.  Maybe.  Too much golf turned some folks off in the beginning, until they got hooked on jimsonweed.  Maybe there won't be so much golf…in the beginning.  Maybe Genny won't be so nice, or Ben will turn to crime for his "social interaction."  I don't know yet.  I do know the D-Backs will be much better in Vol.II.

So, that's what I'm up to, besides trying to lower my handicap (it did go down last month).  Fore!  Or, should I say, Two!

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LABOR DAY

09/03/2011

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Another holiday approaches.  Holiday. No work for a lot of people who have work. Picnics instead. Labor Day. I am wondering if extreme conservatives, especially in Ohio and Wisconsin will have a burger and beer at the beach or at a family gathering on Labor Day.

History review:  In 1894 the Pullman Car Company cut workers wages, workers who were putting in 16-hour days. This led to boycotts of trains and refusal of members of the American Railway Union to run trains having Pullman Cars. Other unions joined the strike and it became a national problem because there was much violence.  President Grover Cleveland called in the US Marshals and 12,000 US Army troops, because several laws were being violated and the strike interfered with the delivery of mail. Thirteen were killed and fifty-seven wounded.  Six days after the strike ended. Congress made September 5 a national holiday, Labor Day,

The irony: Labor Day was created to keep the mail being delivered. The US Postal Service and Congress are now (September, 2011) considering cutting the workforce by 20%, seriously reducing benefits, and eliminating some bargaining rights.

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