I shared the Headless Horseman, Hairy Toe and The Haunted Clown Car – favorites all – at San Lorenzo Park yesterday eve for MCARLM’s Ghost Story gathering. There’s nothing like a campfire to get me going! The kids, both old and young, seemed to be amused, especially by the old lady’s hairy toe supper! I thank the MCCARLM folks for inviting me to participate!
Filed under Author Visits, poetry, Western Tales
Jayhenge Editors Jessica Augustsson and Kem Hansson shared a Joaquin story of mine in Phantom Thieves & Sagacious Scoundrels, their new, intriguing anthology. “Fantasma Malvado” fits right in and I thank them for including it! Please do take a peek on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQL2F9VZ
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My Joaquin Murrieta stories are now published in a Kindle e-book with a paperback coming shortly! Hidden gold, bloody bandits, vengeful miners, mad ghosts, shipwrecks, rattlesnakes— all these and more are to be found in these tales about Joaquin Murrieta. This book is set in Central Californian locations — what is now Pinnacles National Park, the Santa Lucia Mountains, Jolon, Old Mission San Antonio de Padua, San Francisco, among others — and blends 19th Century historical characters and events into the action as I’ve intentionally aligned its content with California Social Studies Standards. Its readability is above 90% on the Flesch scale and varies between a 2.3 and 2.9 in grade level, so most young people should be comfortable reading the stories on their own.
Allow me to mention that I first became intrigued by Joaquin Murrieta while teaching about him to my middle school students and wrote “Joaquin’s Gold”, the first story, many years ago to enhance my teaching. This worked so well with the kids that I included the famous bandit in other stories over the years. The individual stories have all been published separately and several have won contest awards. I’m proud to share them with you in this collection and hope they will open California history for you and yours. https://www.amazon.com/Joaquins-Gold-other-Tales-California-ebook/dp/B09QFRCT4N/ref=sr_1_1?crid=7ZDR13RZAH9P&keywords=Joaquin%27s+Gold+and+other+tales+of+old+California&qid=1642269095&s=digital-text&sprefix=joaquin%27s+gold+and+other+tales+of+old+california%2Cdigital-text%2C153&sr=1-1
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“Tryst” began as sketches for a fairly tedious novel. After residing among ancient computer files for fifteen years or so, I got it out, trimmed away most of it and refashioned what was left into a ghostly climbing tale. It won a prize and publication. Please let me know what you think!
Here’s the link: http://www.theghoststory.com/tryst
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The older kids are amused – Photo by Ed Haskell
The Headless Horseman, Tailypo and the Yeti – favorites all – visited San Lorenzo Park last Saturday eve for the annual Ghost Story gathering. There’s nothing like a campfire to get me going! The kids, both old and young, seemed to be amused! I thank the MCCARLM folks for inviting me to participate!
Filed under Author Visits, Front Page
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