The letter that I had hoped for arrived on May 26th.  The publishing company Publish America accepted my manuscript entitled Wilson Hill.  Since then the contract has been signed and proceedings to get the book into print are going smoothly.  It is my goal to have the book available by mid summer.

Several years ago, when I was working on my first book, One Year in the Life of Benjamin Thomas, I discovered that in order to develop my major characters it was necessary to create minor ones.  And so, in order take one key person, Reeta, where I wanted her to go, I invented a gentle nun named Sister Sarah.  As the story progressed I found that Sarah was developimng a life of her own- almost as though she was telling me what to say rather than me creating her.  Before I had finished the first book I realized that there would be a second and that in that story Sarah would take center stage.  Sarah is not alone.  All the people featured in the first book return.  There are Ben and Reeta, of course, as well as Slim and Mary.  Jim Braxton plays a larger role than he did in the first book as does George Rogers.  There are also new characters that I hope you will like, most notably Dr. Carter Gray, a man who takes the Hippocratic oath seriously.

I will say no more about the specifics of Wilson Hill. I hope the story will be as enjoyable for you to read as it was for me to write.