Thursday, November 6, 2008

The Bloggers Own Novels... Available to YOU!!!




I have been writing Since I was 12 years old. I started out writing Sappy songs. Slowly they became Love songs and story telling songs. I wrote and sang songs for many years, never really feeling it was where I wanted to be. Many years later I did go on to produce a CD of 13 of my favorite songs I had written over the years. I was 45 by then. In the mix of those years, life took on many changes. I was a rancher and a mountain man in Canada. I was the eyes for my blind brother an the legs for my wife many years. Life was sometimes hard but it has never been Bad.
I was a soldier turned husband and father. Two of the greatest blessings a man could be given. I was Bipolar and functioning, happy and in love... For 25 years, I continued to write songs and sing. I also dug out a novel I had hand written from the time I was 13 into my late 20's. I re-read it and thought that maybe I could add to it and make it a real novel. My interests having changed over the years, I finished it but decided to leave it sit on the shelf. What had happened while re-writing the novel however was this. I had been "bitten" by the writers Bug. It flowed through me like a river an burned inside my soul like a forest fire. I KNEW where it was I wanted to be. I began to write whenever and where-ever I could.
With a wife stricken with Muscular Dystrophy, two baby girls to raise and a life to live to it's fullest, I bought a laptop and wrote from any where. Hospital rooms that were a constant in our lives, the front seat of a car, a lake we stopped at to enjoy an inspire all worked for me. We lived a beautiful life and raised our children and remained in Love forever. And in the middle of it all, I wrote two novels. I submitted them to a publisher and became what I am today. That same man that is a father and friend and sometimes a singer... the same guy that has been a manager, a laborer and a KFC employee, became a twice published author. The poet, the care-giver and the Son and Brother found his Niche'.
So much more to tell but that is why I have 100 blogs for you to read. But, I also have a CD and 2 novels that could fill in your late nights or quiet moments when the kids are in bed and the house is Still. Scrolling down to the bottom of my blog site will give you a nice insight to what the two Suspense novels are about. Abduction and Until Death Do We Meet are both available through Amazon books and Barnes and Noble as well as Abe Books and Walden's. They are also available through me by ordering them direct. The added bonus to ordering them trough me personally is that you not only get a signed copy from the Author But... I enclose one of my Cd's free and I pay shipping in the United States.
Ask me about them... I will give you the details. Thank you for reading this. Always, Darrel

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Darrel, I am sad that I have not been here to see you like I used to. I could tell you how busy I have been. I could tell you of my own problems. But that is not going to happen. We all get caught up in life and so we "forget" some good people. I have just read through several of your posts and I feel like I have to say one thing. I have said it before. You are a human being. You are not perfect, nor will you find anyone who is. You loved Sheila well and I think you know that. I have a question for you. As much as you say you and Sheila loved each other, would she want you to be alone for the rest of your life. Was she that selfish? Strong words I know, but I feel she would have wanted you to go on with your life and share the love you have for life with another person. Your children have their own lives to live and you can love them ferociously, but you can't love them like you need to loved. I hope you understand what I am saying and I hope I have not hurt you in any way. Sheila will always be a part of your life. Let someone else in to give you another reason to keep going. Love and hugs, always ettarose

Darrel said...

Etta, thank you for visiting my blog. It means so much to me when you do. You never have to explain to me why you haven't been around. I always know you are a screen away and just a thought from my heart.
Your words are a gift and I cherish them. Sheila was never selfish and wants only for me to be happy. that I will always believe and know to be truth.
Life does go on and love finds it's way to your heart and soul. Each day is new and each experience a memory. I live each as best I can and smile when I see a friend such as you.
Thank you for your kind words, not harsh at all. Know I am always JASA for you... Just A Screen Away. love and hugs to you. Darrel

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