It’s been too long since my last newsletter. Though I promised that I would not flood you with excessive content, I apologize for not staying in touch. So here’s what is happening now and in the near future:

I am seriously thinking about moving my intended launch date to later in the year, perhaps mid-August. I just see so many things that must be done before Resurrection Runner will be ready. It’s not that the manuscript won’t be done, it’s the few other things that I want to have in place before the book goes live.

Editing is progressing smoothly. It’s a humbling experience, to be sure, but it provides many lessons that will strengthen my writing. So much to learn, so little time. If you are a writer and think you can do without an editor, don’t expect your readers to share your feelings. Just find a good one and get better at what you do.

I am looking forward to recording a podcast on RnA Outdoors this coming Saturday. Thus the link to them on my Home Page. The release date has not been established, but I’ll let you know when it is.

Until then, here is the final segment of my brief biography. There’s no doubt that I could expand it with all the memories I have of my blessed life, but certainly not now!

…a bit about me (part four)

When I left you last week in this brief bio, we had just returned to California where I began my graduate work at Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont University) on the Scripps campus and had begun to write.

Parallel to my writing, Tom Wolfe's Painted Word drew my attention to the death of meaningful Fine Art and to the absurdity of my continued efforts to find some elusive, all-encompassing statement within the clay. Though I had started as a potter, I had soon eschewed the discipline of the potter’s wheel and had embraced a contrary regimen of story-telling sculptural expression with the clay. That was seen by some to deny the nature and history of the medium, but for me, it was, a familiar road and one that honored the clay’s innate plastic nature; a nature similar to that found in the written word.

When I graduated, I was one of two students from my class who landed a teaching position right out of school. You must understand, a teaching position was the thing that most of us were after. It was also the thing for which I was least suited.

After a year of teaching at Whittier College, we moved to Northern California. With us, we brought our first major literary effort. My wife and I collaborated on a novel of fantasy and magic, a work that is still waiting for re-write. While she worked and I took several small jobs, I made an effort to find a teaching or a design job. In the end, I took the first job that was offered: driving a route-sales truck for a large nursery. It was very hard work but lit led me to a thirty-year career in national sales and many lasting friendships.

During this time, we moved to Central California where we lived for the last eleven years of my nursery career and beyond. In the meantime, I volunteered for the NRA Members Council, a grassroots political action organization specific to California. I also joined the Merced Friends of NRA fundraising committee and later, the California Rifle and Pistol Association. I was the organization’s secretary when I was obliged to resign because I had accepted a field representative position with the National Rifle Association. With the generous help of many dedicated volunteers, we were able to raise over four million dollars in Central California for the shooting sports.

I am now retired and my wife and I live in Nebraska where I have resumed my writing. As you know, I soon will be publishing Resurrection Runner. I have two other books planned to roll out soon after, and Book Two of the Resurrection Runner Series is in the works right now.

…end.

It’s time now to get back to work and make up for the six hours we enjoyed without power!

Have faith and do something with it. May God preserve our blessed country.

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If you’ve done this before, please do it again. If not, please consider doing it now.

All the Best in the days to come.

-rwa