Monday, August 15, 2011
the land and water is really there!
So while the majority of my chapters are fiction, the land in which it takes place is REAL. Salmon, ID does exist, the Salmon River and the Middle Fork of the Salmon do exist. Lost Trail Pass exists. Highway 93 really does run from the northern border of MT all the way down to the southern border of the US with Mexico. It is a lonely road too. Sadly one that many never take the time to experience. All the backroads I write about in the book exist. Ghost towns, wide spots in the road with a cafe, tumbleweeds and amazing sunsets. They all exist. Go there, see those places!
Friday, November 20, 2009
Success on the Kindle
Thank you for those purchases! If any of you read this, I would love to hear or read what you think of the chapter(s) that you purchased.
The goal is to publish the entire book. If I can get in touch with you early purchasers, I would be happy to send the entire copy to you, when it becomes available.
thx
Jeff
email address is the blog name plus the "@gmail.com"
Friday, August 14, 2009
the beach landing below Moore's cabin on the Main Salmon
This is a small, two boat, fall trip going down the Salmon. Great time of the year on an unbelievable river. Just above this beach is a small bench on which James Moore built his homestead, which ultimately ended up as quite a place, serving all sorts of things to the local mining and farming people.It's all quiet now, but it is something to imagine life on this river a hundred years ago. From what I've read it was a pretty lively place.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Chapters of the book -
Down the River Up the Road Chapter One
Down the River Up the Road Chapter Two
Down the River Up the Road Chapter Three
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
River dinner
This is a river dinner setup. Tall tables, dutch ovens, and old-school coffee.
The tables double as benches in the gear boats. And the peach cobbler makes a good pre-breakfast snack if there is any left over. It was always a treat to see vacationers expecting fairly nasty camp food turn out pleasantly surprised with the food that we made as part of these trips.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Chapter Two is now live in Amazon
This is a Kindle-only book for the foreseeable future. At some point, once I have the chapters written and solid, I will join them together for a book. But for now it's exclusively Kindle!
Given the chapter at a time nature of the book, the characters might seem slow to appear. This book is about fatherhood, it is about active healthy teen and pre-teen girls, it is about Idaho. Horses and dogs are here in the story. Surfing even makes an appearance. Those topics will all reveal themselves as the chapters roll out.
But our first character's love of the Salmon River runs through the whole thing, or at least the chapters that are devoted to him. Idaho is truly a wonderful place and the Salmon River is certainly part of what makes it such a nice place. It inspired this book.
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Shoebox Warrior - Banjo
Down the River Up the Road is about many things, rivers, mountains, people, horses, etc. It is also a dog lover's story about one small dog in particular. This dog, or at least the fictional version of her that fits in a book.This is our shoebox warrior in one of her favorite places.