| ISSUE #35, FEBRUARY 2007... |  |
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I also have a blog specifically targeted to television located at TV.com, called "Teleplay," but most of those essays are also simultaneously published at my main blogsite. If you want my latest news and thoughts, check it out. I also have a booklist there with reading recommendations.
I am writing as much as I can, in between being married, raising a daughter, and working 46 hours a week in graphic design. Alexandria is in the 2nd Grade! How time flies! She's making friends, which is good for her. It's also good for me because I may end up with a few more moments here and there to write. Anyway, keep watching and I'll do my best to upload further chapters on a more regular basis. Just keep checking back (unless you've already given up!)
Check out the new 2007 Table Of Contents below! The latest stories posted are AN ALL-NEW Tales Of Placerville short story is now online! As you may recall, TALES OF PLACERVILLE is the sequel series to TALES OF McKINLEYVILLE. These stories will eventually be collected in the first TALES OF PLACERVILLE book, titled Bradford & Norris: Booksellers To The Savage West., in a paperback format similar to Big Doin's At The Chinese Baptist Church. Check out the new stories - "The Great Fire of 1856, or, The Modern Prometheus", parts one and two. I hope to add a new story I'm writing with Mike Norris, "Midnight In Neverland," but as it is his baby I'll have to get his permission first!
Already available on the website is a Tales Of Placerville story called "The End Of The Rainbow, or, The Search For El Dorado.". Discerning readers (and fans of a certain 1939 movie) will recognize where the story's characters hail from. The Tales Of McKinleyville novel "Big Doin's" is still available. For those of you who actually liked the characters in that book, don't worry. They're moving to Placerville. For those of you who didn't, don't worry - they'll only be showing up occasionally.
Also posted is a very short piece I wrote for publication in 2004 called "Christmas Conversation", which checks in on how Huck and Horsefeathers are doing five years after their last appearance in "The Marriage Proposal" (the concluding arc of "Big Doin's At The Chinese Baptist Church.")
And please write to me!
My published book ("Big Doin's At The Chinese Baptist Church," Storyteller Press in association with Page One Publishers, Inc., December 1998, 230 pages), includes three multi-part arcs. Now at last the third arc in the book, "The Marriage Proposal", is available here on the website. In it our central character, Huck, finally decides what to do with his life, some love letters arrive from Hollywood, his brother Bubba finds the perfect mate, and the whereabouts of the notorious Hunsey Bourcarte are finally revealed! However, I still recommend buying a copy of the printed book. It includes only the final edited versions of each part. Plus the book has a detailed map of Huck's version of Humboldt County and some wonderful photos taken by Humboldt photographer Brandi Easter.
If you'd like to order a copy send $12.95 plus 94 cents tax (total $13.89) to: Storyteller Press, P.O. Box 840, Pollock Pines, CA 95726-0840. Please make all checks payable to Perry Bradford-Wilson. The postage and handling is on me. Or, if you want to spend more money, amazon.com sells the book (click on the amazon link at the right). They have it used, but for new copies I'm selling the book cheaper direct, and I can autograph it for you! I really appreciate your support!
Please note that this book has nothing to do with churches or Baptists!!! This is a work of humorous fiction! The stories have been compared to the work of Garrison Keillor, Patrick McManus, and Tom Bodett (and I am honored that my name and work have been mentioned even in remote comparison with such illustrious authors!)
Also on this site are two more recent short pieces set in McKinleyville and not included in the published book. These are "They Shoot Poets, Don't They?" and "Christmas Conversation: A Note From McKinleyville". The first stories in the sequel series to the Tales Of McKinleyville, the all-new Tales Of Placerville, are now starting to be posted online. Check out "The End Of The Rainbow, or, The Search For El Dorado", and "The Great Fire of 1856, or, The Modern Prometheus,", parts one and two. If you enjoy the McKinleyville stories I think you'll like them, although they are a bit different. Thanks for visiting!
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