Thank you, Cindy, for your kind greeting. I'm so sorry we're in the same boat for much the same reasons.
Re: my one small wound, trust me-- it was silly and stupid. By being in the wrong place at the wrong time I took a BB sized chunk of white phosphorus in the same place as Forrest Gump. It burned it's way a couple inches into the gluteus. For a long time I thought the pain was from that. It turned out to be mostly from my deteriorating sacroiliac, but I wouldn't know that for thirty years.
I'd love to get a contract too. Positive reviews from people who buy it and read it can help that happen. It's hard to market with no money.
Again, thanks for your kind greeting. I feel welcome here.

Author: Mayan Solstice: A Novel of 2012 (
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If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.-
from "The Door into Summer" (1957), chapter 1 (Robert Anson Heinlein)
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. (again, RAH)