July 2017

Dancing for the General, by Sue Star and Bill Beatty, was released in July.  

It is a novel of suspense and intrigue set in 1957 Ankara, Turkey about American families who live there amidst a brewing political storm.  This book was a labor of love, inspired by my experiences living there at the time.  

April 2017

Three of my Bill Beatty stories were released in the collection Hell Down Under:   

The stories are about supernatural forces underground that can steal people from…  

• a retirement community in the desert southwest in “Retirement in Hell”
• abandoned cliff dwellings in “Land of the Under People” 
• a Brazilian gemstone mine in “Missing Miners” 

March 2017

The third novel of my Centauri series was released in March.  

In this book, the mission finally reaches Proxima Centauri, and oh the surprises they find there!

February 2017

My publisher released a collection of 3 of my short stories by Sue Star:  

The stories take place in Nell Letterly’s world of eccentric Boulder.  

“Creek Squatting”:  trouble along the creek.  

“R.E.S.P.E.C.T.”:  trouble follows martial artists. 

“Death of a Prairie Dog”:  trouble with land developers.   

Catching Up (Again): Africa!

2017 was the Year of No Blog.  I was too busy writing fiction.  It was a 3-book year (6, if you count the collections of short stories)—that’s a record for me!  

In between releases, I wrote new stories and worked on filling the well for more stories, i.e. “research.”  Sometimes this just means gathering interesting information, without having any idea at the time how it will be used.  It gets filed away and may or may not come out later in the form of fiction.  

The year started off like this, with well-filling.  We went to South Africa, a month filled with fantastic experiences.  Here are a few memorable moments from safari:  

The safaris made such an impression on me that I wrote my first story of the year about this setting.