February with oranges instead of ice

I can remember February in Michigan on the Upper Peninsula where you had to go due south for forty miles to hit the Canadian border. I can still see that frozen shore line of the great lake. I can also remember driving past the prison at Marquette. The huge, gray, inclined walls sucked the sun’s feeble heat from the air. A very cruel but not unusual punishment for its inhabitants

I still recall looking out the window in upstate New York seeing the steam rise off of Lake Champlain when the air temperature dropped to twenty degrees and the lake was still a chilly sixty degrees.

Despite the fact that some say cold does not radiate, there were days on the flight line there when something made its way through my insulated boots and stole all the heat from my ankles down and left an ache behind.

One of my memories of February is hitting a patch of ice while driving, doing a one-eighty, and ending up in a ditch facing the way I had come from.

Do I miss all that?

Take a look at my face and make a guess.   

February E-book Report from Goldenbooks

Hi friends and fans,
You can  go to Nook, Apple Devices, Kobo, Sony, and any other reader and you will find Blue Glory.

Walter

WHY TO BUY BLUE GLORY E-BOOK AT AMAZON.COM

Blue Glory E-Book Summary

December 2010

In one night the old Wizards’ Council was overthrown. In a single battle most of the wizards were slain. But not all.

Everyone waited for the counter attack.

But nothing happened.

 For two centuries the counter-revolution has slept. All that remains of the old council is a mysterious blue jewel and the specter of a young girl wandering the island of Seamount. The young girl, Glory, believes she is more than a left over weapon from that long-ago wizards’ war. Glory is sure she is human, has a body, and a purpose.

It is just that she has no memory of them.

Then one of the original rebels steals the jewel. The effort to recover it reunites Glory’s mind with her magic and her memory.

Now after all these years, the counter attack is coming—and it’s coming like an avalanche two hundred years in the making.

A BRIEF SELECTIVE WALTER GOLDEN BIO

   Many years ago--never mind how many--I came across my first science fiction/fantasy magazine. It had been wrapped up with a lot of other magazines in stout wire and deposited at five AM in front of a drug store in San Francisco.

   Now at that time I was a paper boy with wire cutters--our papers were delivered in wire bundles.

The covers of the pulp magazines back then were quite enticing to an eleven year old boy. I grabbed one stuffed it into my paper bag and read it later. Too my great disappointment the contents did not match the cover.

   But hope springs eternal in a young boy’s breast so I tried it again next month. A strange thing happened. I got to liking the stories.

   The third month I actual paid for the magazine.

Now decades later I have traveled with Conan, laughed with Fhfard and the Gray Mouser, Rode Jordan’s Wheel of Time, De Camped from one universe to the next, and kept an eye out for Boskone.

   My children are grown now and I have misplaced my wire cutters but I have a computer. Maybe I can entice a few young men, and women, into a universe were the good guys win.

   So different from ours 

BLUE GLORY MAKES IT TO THE KINDLE

Blue Glory, a Fantasy Epic by Walter Golden, is now published to Kindle, and awaiting your order. It is a fascinating story that will carry you to the discovery of the young girl Glory’s body, mind, and spirit, and her role in restoring Seamount to its rightful rulers.

Book One of the Seamount Series will be followed by the THE QUEEN IN SILVER AND BLACK, and RED DEVLIN, books two and three which will be out soon.

Blue Glory is now available from Amazon.com Kindle E-Books for $2.99 and can be immediately downloaded to your Kindle or Apple devices.

Happy reading,

 Walter