Dale Matson
“This is a story about the search for one of the most famous
personalities of our time, Maggie Caslon. She was beautiful, talented, young
and rich. Her disappearance was a mystery. The world held it’s collective breath
as the search unfolded. It is also the story of those ordinary anonymous souls
who were in the world’s spotlight for a brief period of time because they were
associated with the search for her. This is also true of her boyfriend Ryan who
was referred to as a “male companion” in the first newspaper account of her
disappearance.”
Thus begins my newest book that will be available as a
paperback from Amazon and in Kindle format early next week. After writing 10
non-fiction books, it is my first work of fiction. Actually, it is fact-based
fiction. The location of the story is real. The story is told through my eyes
as a civilian working for Fresno County Search and Rescue. This is a mutual aid
search including several other agencies. It is not unlike many of the searches
in which I have participated. (I really am with the Fresno County SAR team).
I wrote an earlier account of several searches that was
factual called “Seeking The Lost: Stories Of Search And Rescue."
Part of this story is the idea that there are the famous and
there are the rest of us. The rest of us lead anonymous lives from birth to
death. Some become famous through infamous deeds. Killing JFK made Lee Harvey
Oswald forever infamous. The further you get from the famous, the more you fade
into obscurity. For example, how many people know who Marina Oswald is as the
wife of Lee Harvey Oswald? She is still alive and once again leads an anonymous
life.
The process of writing fiction has been enjoyable and a
revelation for me. Some authors say that the characters tell them what to say.
Maybe down the road, this will work for me. Friends say Ernest Hemingway wrote
about his experiences. I always liked his crisp style of writing. I created my own cover once again (in photoshop) and each time is quite a challenge. The Kindle version is actually more difficult than the paperback because the file submission process for an E-Pub really does violence to the formatting. I pretest the mobi files on my Kindle Fire before submitting them to KDP and believe me there is a great deal of trial and error. The paperback interior is submitted as a PDF which is very stable.
You can now digitally review your files on line which means that you don't have to order a review (proof) copy before approving publication.
I have a devotional that is half finished and languishing
on the back burner. Maybe it’s time to finish it.
Pax,
Dale+
"The Search For Maggie Caslon" is now available for Kindle.
ReplyDeleteThe paperback version is now available on Amazon Books.
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