![]() “I delved into my own athletic history for this book,” he says of the young character he was writing about. He hopes this book will keep his readers in touch with that world as well. He hikes and goes mountain biking when he can’t run.īut his novels keep him in touch with the running world. With bad knees, he can run only every three or four days. He wrote Once a Runner in less than a year, but he’s not able to put in marathon writing days as he used to. “The one thing I’ve noticed as I continue on into decrepitude: Writing is kind of hard work,” Parker says. He spent five years scribing his newest novel. Writing Racing the Rain didn’t take as long as it did to write Again to Carthage, but that doesn’t mean the book came easily. ![]() “It felt a little weird to be up in Maine writing about a story taking place in the subtropics,” he says. The novel takes placce in a fictional town on Florida’s Gold Coast. ![]() ![]() He wrote half of it while he was in Florida and the other half in Bar Harbor, Maine. Parker, 67, describes his latest work as encompassing “the process of becoming an athlete.” He spoke to RW about the new book from his place in High Springs, Florida. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play ![]()
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Our stranger managed to lure one child away in just 33 seconds - that’s barely the time it takes to say hello. Only two - an eight-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl - were suspicious enough to refuse. ![]() Yet of the nine children our ‘stranger’ approached aged between five and 11, seven agreed to go with him. Warning: All the children had been told about the risk of talking to people they do not knowĮvery single mother was confident that she had educated her child about ‘stranger danger’.Īnd every single one was confident that her child would refuse to go anywhere with someone they didn’t know. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A chunk of ice from space that falls to Earth gains enough energy to warm the ice up, melt it, boil it into vapor, and then heat the vapor to thousands of degrees. Outer space is a lot higher up than Niagara Falls, so the plunge down into the atmosphere at the bottom of Earth's gravity well adds a lot more than 0.1 degrees worth of heat. 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Related Posts: My review of Walking DisasterĪbby Abernathy is a good girl.Main Characters and Casting: Travis Maddox and Abby Abernathy.I loved every word of it and I loved our flawed, but big-hearted bad boy, Travis Maddox. Sweet, romantic, engaging and brimming with palpable angst that made the story incredibly addicting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I collaborated with him to write a book about his adventurers on Earth. For those of you who don't believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials, I had the privilege a while back of meeting Appleton the alien from the Omega Star Cluster. 'GREETINGS EARTHLINGS, My name is Appleton and I come from the planet Reginta.' (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1CET50n, bit.ly/1Jtk8DB) It's a 'what if' story of Queen Elizabeth II having a son born in 1950 instead of a daughter, and he is later kidnapped and then found almost 50 years later (one tiny little spoiler: he eventually meets his mother the Queen, and she finds out he works for an organized crime mob!). My previous book, 'The Royal Kidnapping', is my first attempt at a mystery thriller. (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1BLw0Os, bit.ly/1LO6ZCu) My latest book, 'NSA Wormhole Project' is a new book involving wormhole travel and discoveries involving both medieval people and a mysterious race living on a far away planet. It's about a person who survives 50,000 years and wakes up in the future. ![]() (youtube promo videos: bit.ly/1dnGkR4, bit.ly/1HnuYKW) ![]() I would love to know what life would be like in the future, so I wrote: I have written mostly science fiction books in the past, and I write about things I'm passionate about. ![]() |