Complete Manuscript Seeking Publisher
Clancy’s never built a boat before, but no matter: Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. The slim wooden dory he envisions will navigate the Salmon’s famous whitewater and, at the dammed, becalmed waters of the Columbia, it will drop keel and sail. Can it work? There’s one way to find out.
So begins a decade’s worth of adventures, each more quirky – and dangerous – than the last. The men’s final and most ambitious journey, a floodstage, 24-hour race on the Salmon, the river where their adventures began, ends tragically.
This book – about Clancy’s friendship with the preternaturally driven Jon, their shared voyages and separate lives as iconoclasts and whitewater raft guides – is an adventure in itself. It’s also a free-wheeling tour of Western rivers, and a journey through a controversy that flares each time an adventurer dies: Is it foolish to risk for the sake of adventure? If so, why do so many of us admire those who do? read more...
Anti-Blog
A writer must have a website, a website must have a blog, and a blog must have a topic...
But I am anti-blog. So. Welcome to my anti-blog. The topic: two years of attempts to sell my third nonfiction book project, “Anything Worth Doing.” The goal: to save other writers and would-be writers the misconceptions and resulting missteps easy prior successes helped me make. The anti-blogger method: short, serial, blogstyle entries that should be read in chronological order, i.e. bookstyle.
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