ISHI PISHI illustrated

Klamath River

Happy Camp

 Sorry! As reported in the story, Conrad dropped his camera in the Klamath. No photographs survived. Isn't that just the way with all stories that involve sasquash, shape shifting, and desirable motorcycle mamas. All I can offer is a blowup of my cover graphics and some Google maps.

Review of 'The White-Skin Deer: Hoopa Stories' by Elizabeth Schultz

As I finished my last story, Ishi Pishi, I wanted to see what others had written about the Klamath River, the Hoopah Indians, Sasquatch, and Happy Camp. I restricted my search to Kindle Books. This provided few hits. All were by authors unknown to me. One was an esoteric treatise on Indians in general. Several discussed Sasquatch, a la Coast to Coast radio. That left two. Since I had hoped to download two books, I bought them both as pigs in pokes, without reading the descriptions.
Today I'll review the book that intrigued me.
If I had read the description, I might have passed--relatively unknown female Mormon poet writes about Hoopa Indians.

Before I finished the first page I was hooked.

She charms the reader by skillfully applying her poetic skills to a collection of prose short stories. Using her poetic talents seem to have facilitated her understanding and incorporation of beautiful Hoopa thought patterns and views into her own writing. She sounds like a Hoopa.

The stories explain sacred Hoopa traditions and spirituality. They contrast the fears of the tribal elders regarding the behavior of the younger, who seem all to eager to cast aside tribal values for those of their relatively thoughtless and crass white neighbors.

I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Next time you feel like going native; if you don't read 'Ishi Pishi,' then read 'The White-Skin Deer.'

Review of 'Eagle Quest' by Marva Dasef

As I finished my last story, Ishi Pishi, I wanted to see what others had written about the Klamath River, the Hoopa Indians, Sasquatch, and Happy Camp. I restricted my search to Kindle Books. This provided few hits. All were by authors unknown to me. One was an esoteric treatise on Indians in general. Several discussed Sasquatch, a la Coast to Coast radio. That left two. Since I had hoped to download two books, I bought them both as pigs in pokes, without reading the descriptions.
Tomorrow I'll review the book that intrigued me. Today is set aside for the other.
If I had read the description, it would have told me that the story was about adolescents attending school. This is no 'Tom Sawyer' nor 'Stand by Me.' I confess: I have not finished it yet. It's on the bottom of my reading list. With chapter titles like 'The Rat Bastard,' it comes across ass being written by a borderline goth.
I guess I'm too old to appreciate its value. It might have value as a leisure reading gift book for some adolescents.

Dash It

Writing for the military stifled me. I had been taught, at Santa Ana College, to mind my colons and semicolons and leave the dashes alone.
I almost caused my company to miss a deadline for printing, arguing over a blessed dash. The military, not unlike the Vatican, shuns progress. They do not like semi-colons and adore the simplicity of the m-dash. I wanted to use a semicolon in a complex sentence.
Later on, when our publications officer quit, I assumed editorial responsibilities for a set of documents. I insisted on the use of styles, boxes and a font other than Courier or Arial. We won kudos from the Air Force.
Later, 'On Writing,' by Stephen King, recommended the m-dash as the fiction writer's friend.
I changed my ways.
Now, several models of Windows, Office, and Word later; I can no longer find an m-dash on my character map.
The same problem has arisen with the ellipsis.
When I save my documents as web pages, m-dashes and ellipsis convert to '3/4' characters.
To complicate things, m-dashes and ellipsis entered before some mysterious period in time convert correctly.
Since I cannot run a replace all on a character that does not exist, I am forced to manually search and replace.
What gives???

Warming My Feathers

Hello World,
The sun warms my feathers like a condor after a cold night. I stand on this windy ledge, surveying the blogosphere. My ignorance partially occludes my view. I am just hopping to get a sense of soaring.
What I want to do is:
 1. Link to one or more good e-book fiction author and reader blogs to learn and share.
 2. Participate in discussions.
 3. Form bonds with a few members of the craft.
I live in an ex-pat community in Mexico with fishermen, hunters and drinkers. So, I am reaching out.
I have activated the content warning so that I can discuss adult writing. I wrote my first (unpublished) novel with political correctness. Then I cursed and tried to rewrite it so that a criminal cursed as one would expect. I recently read a short story bi Grisham where he vividly portrayed multiple lap dances without using the 'F' word nor using graphical explicate descriptions. I want to be able to do that, without submitting to the religious right. That is why I have a warning message--not so that I can present distasteful texts.
Other subjects I would like input on are:
 1. What is with the disappearing 'm-dash?'
 2. I recently told my computer to use Internet Explorer to open my html from Amazon. Now, if I click to open. the computer loops through endless iterations of initiating IE.

Well, here goes!