Presently, three novels are underway. However, it's a real
struggle to write a novel compared to writing short stories.
Short stories can be completed in a few hours to a few days;
novels are a much longer endeavor, often requiring considerable
research.
- Citrus White Gold is an historical novel about Citrus County, Florida set in the period 1890-1910, with jumps back and forth to the year 2002. In a sense, it is a time travel novel. Certainly, the influence of Jack Finney will be seen in this work. This is my most active project, requiring travel around the county, hanging out in the Citrus County Historical Society office, and reading the works of earlier historians.
- Miller Family History (not necessarily the title) uses time travel and a time machine to portray the history of the Miller/Bock family in a manner that attempts to put life into genealogy. This is a big project. Included will be a theory of time travel.
- Baggage is the story of Johnny Peebles, a baggage handler in the Greyhound BusStation in St. Louis, Missouri. Set in the early 1960s, it portrays Johnny as knowing very little about the geography of the United States, yet he has the responsibility of loading bags on buses. His unawareness of where bags should be going seriously impacts the lives of a number of travelers, some of whose paths are destined to cross.
