You’d think if you’d voluntarily served in the Army for three years, you wouldn’t be called again, right? Read this excerpt from “Hard Times in the Heartland”. The next Monday evening Henry picked out the mail from the box and thumbed through it while he ate some leftover turkey hash before heading to the hospital. One letter was from the Selective Service Agency. He tore it open. Inside was a card on which was written: Notice of Reclassification Henry Sanford…
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“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
~George Santayana
Ever see one of these? They’re rather scarce these days. In the days when I came into the world in the 40s, these bills were in common circulation. My mom and I stayed in the hospital for nearly two weeks after I was born. The hospital bill came to a whopping $75.00. Before my dad took us home, he paid the bill in full with a wad of these he’d saved for the occasion. How times have changed! My other…
I don’t know if this the proper way to write a historical novel–this is just how I do it. I start a box and dig through stuff Mother saved over her 89 years. When I run across a picture, a stack of letters, or any books, they all go in the box. All the while, I’m considering where
Hard Times in the Heartland, is the third in The Late Sooner series available here. For an author, a new book is like having another child. You wait, dream, and hope. Then one day all the details are finished and you’ve delivered. Your blood, sweat, and tears are out there for all to see. Hard Times covers the era from 1933 to 1945–The Depression through WW II. I’ve based this book on my dad’s letters. Follow this blog to find out the behind…
I know this doesn’t look like a new baby, but it is. It’s my new fiction, based on fact which is out this month. So, do we call that “faction”? Hard Times in the Heartland, the third in the series of The Late Sooner is based on my dad’s letters to Mom and me during WW II and family stories. Like my other books, the facts are carefully researched and woven into this story. As a kid, I hated history class because…