Douglas Arvidson is a past winner of the WICE/Paris Transcontinental International Short Story competition. His short fiction has been published in Paris, Prague, and in literary magazines in the United States and he was recently invited to be a staff writer for the Prague Revue, a cutting-edge, online literary journal (http://bit.ly/1mMT6ZC). The novels in his fantasy series, The Eye of the Eye of Stallion, include The Face in Amber, The Mirrors of Castaway Time, and A Drop of Wizard's Blood. His new novel, Brothers of the Fire Star, was selected as a finalist in the ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year national awards and as a finalist in three categories in the 2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards: Action Adventure Fiction, Historical Fiction, and Young Adult Fiction. It has become part of the pantheon of Pacific literature and is now included in school literature programs. Brothers of the Fire Star is an adventure story set in the Pacific during World War II and concerns two boys of different races and cultures who escape the island of Guam in a small sailboat when the Japanese army invades. They must then struggle to survive as they master the secrets of the ancient Pacific navigators. Appropriate for young adults as well as adult readers, Brothers of the Fire Star is available on Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/1j3axVk) and Crossquarter.com. Visit the author's website: douglasarvidson.com



Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Notes from a New England Writer


  What Lies Ahead

The key to success is consistency and the key to consistency is determination and the key to that is enjoyment--have fun or it won't last (like love, like marriage and, yes, like writing.) So, I shall spend the winter writing doing that as well as reading, walking, and working out at the local Y. 

Have written the rough drafts of four new novels and they are hanging out here on this laptop. I'll be happily tweaking them during the cold months ahead and plans are to hammer them into some kind of publishable shape.

 Having a personal "brand" is important for a writer. I have a friend who brands herself as a Southern writer and, as I grew  up as a farm boy in the remote Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, I am a New England writer. That is, a writer who is a child of the long New England winters, deep, steep forests, and flinty farmers. 

As I am now an old man, my next book will be about my personal experience of aging and the great adventure of dealing with death. Yes, an adventure. 

More later.



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