New Novel: Red Solstice

After six years, I think the Novel is ready to be published. An author friend told me, "It's time to lay the baby down." The first draft was nearly 130,000 words. I have sharpened it to 94,000 words.

I self-published my first work, A TIME AND PLACE, The Making of an Immigrant, and sold over 3,000 copies.

This novel, RED SOLSTICE, I plan to publish electronically, as well as a hard cover version.

The subject is a WWII soldier missing in action. Declared dead by the German government, but survived eleven years of captivity.

I wrote the novel in the first person. Following is the intro page to the novel.

We immigrated to America when I was fifteen.

All was new––the vastness, the people, the language.

The old however, was etched deep in me.

I never knew my father.

He left before I was four years old.

He went to war and never returned.

Missing in action, they say.

For more than sixty years

I’ve wondered what might have been.

I had to write this book,

To cross the troubled waters,

To feel his struggles, as they may have been,

To rest my mind.

How could I find his words?

How could I portray his pain?

How could I calm my own nagging heart?

I myself needed to put on his shoes;

Step into a time that I never knew.

Yes, it is he I needed to become––

To at last get to know him.