Field Recordings

Seven Days on the Mountain is available for your Kindle, but for those who are without the Kindle, you may use your i phone, i pad, or i pod touch . Needless to say the Kindle reader works in/on a variety of platforms including PCs, Macs, Androids, Blackberry's, etc   You may have to purchase or download a reader for your device, or you may have one pre-loaded onto your device of choice.  Currently working on making the YA adventure available for other platforms.  < Seven Days… is based on Homer’s The Odyssey , except Odysseus is Callie Grady, a clever teen girl who uses her wits and skill to survive in an America ripped apart by a new civil war.   In the midst of the turmoil, the blood, the death, Callie learns to trust herself, learns to survive, and most importantly learns to love. It’s a novel that combines elements of action-adventure, family drama, and the supernatural into a fast paced adventure. While geared towards the te...

Seven Days on the Mountain, avialble on Amazon, Thursday, June 30th, is based on Homer’s The Odyssey.  S Scott Whitaker's young adult action thriller is centered around Callie Grady, a clever teen girl who uses her wits and skill to survive in an America ripped apart by a new civil war, an uncertain dystopian future. In the midst of the turmoil, the blood, the death, Callie learns to trust herself, learns to survive, and most importantly learns to love. It’s a novel that combines elements of action-adventure, family drama, and the supernatural into a fast paced adventure. While geared towards the teen set, adults will find much in the novel to admire and enjoy, much like Gregory Galloway’s As Simple as Snow , Nel Shusterman's Unzipped , or Gary Paulsen’s adventure novels such as Hatchet .     From the author's forward:   "As a young man I was drawn to films such as  The Road Warrior, Blade Runner, Red Dawn , and other ...

My review of Delmarva writers... Harold Wilson's The Night Blooming Cereus & Other Stories and my review of Fleda Brown's Driving With Dvorak

Ivan joined the Flynn's last night on stage at the Great Machipongo Clam Shack on "Stepping Stone," assisting Forest on shakers. Little scamp kept beaming his shy grin at the audience.

Featuring Ruth Bizot, Betty Davis, Diana Sullivan and Tracy Rice Weber. Sat Night, 5/14, 7PM historic Cokesbury Church on the corner of Market and West Streets in Onancock, VA. Poetry and Prose folks. Poetry and Prose. Do not know these writers personally, but saw them read at the April Favorite Poem Reading, and if their work is anything like their influences, you're in for treat. Bizot is a journalist and a poet, Davis is a retired police officer and into Rumi, Rilke, and Stein (a law firm...mwah), Sullivan studied dance and photography and writes "New York" vignettes and stories, and Weber is teacher and poet. Also poet Terry Flynn and spiritualist Jeanne Flynn will be performing words and music at the Great Machipongo Clam Shack in Nassawadox from 6:30 on... Lots of culture out there...see you on the other side.

A link to Larry Levis reading Caravaggio: Swirl and Vortex

Happy national Poetry Month!