Happy June 1st – The creation of stories, plots, characters and creation of interesting and important characters. As a writer I often must finish a story and even though no story is perfect, it needs to get written, because deep in my subconscious is a story that needs to be old. A piece of writing to me is only an extension of myself, my mind, my spirit that I wish to give to the world, but especially my family to have these stories.
Fortunately, for the last few years since self-publishing THE POX, the wheels in my mind ignited with stories that I find important.
Today is no different, as I have been publishing this year with my fictional book “The Stricken,” my follow up to the “Pox”, The Menagerie Locket, Pounds of Flesh, The Forgotten Son, my autobiography.
As I write I am putting the finishing touches on my most recent book, which will come out early next year currently titled “The Whisper”, a paranormal story, in my attempt to be told in first person from my daughter’s perspective Mikaylah. This story influenced by my insatiable idea of life after death, as this story also includes the supernatural.
In addition to writing this book I am preparing a non-fiction book on the Yaqui and O-odham Indians, meant to honor the indigenous people, but there is more to the story of why I wrote this book, primarily because my grandfather who I believe was part Yaqui and felt it necessary to speak of the stories they told, along with who the Yaqui Indians are.
There is also the O’odham or other wise known as the Papago Indians, who are basically neighbors of the Yaqui but completely two different tribes as Yaqui are mostly from the Sonoran Desert in Mexico, while the O’odham are primarily in Arizona and parts of Sonora. The Papago has been an interest from my mine for years, due to many decades ago, my grandfather had a good friend named Carruth, who was a Papago native America, and he would come to visit. A very tall man, who wore cowboy boots, a cowboy hat and turquoise bolo ties. I have always had an interest in Native American culture, even today, that often we do hear about Cherokee, Navajo and other more known tribes, but Yaqui and Papago in my opinion are probably not as known, but this book will bring them to light. There is information on both tribes, but in my opinion, it’s often overlooked and probably forgotten, again because they are not well known.
I often and have been using native American characters in my fictional books especially in The Menagerie Locket and Pounds of Flesh. The characters in my book are meant to show respect to the native American culture and not to disparage the group, but in my fictional books, its fictional which infuses ideas like Skin-walkers in my books which is primarily Navajo.
I don’t know why, when I think about my writing, I think of myself as young Ben Hanscom, a lonely boy who loves spending time in the library. I often remembered the film IT, especially the newest version of him studying that he is quite content, which reminds me of myself, where the library was a place of peace, I could get lost their literally but, in a book, or many books. Although the young Ben reminds him of me, not the grown-up highly successful Architect Ben, as I often feel I am more like Bill, the writer.
I will continue to attempt to create interesting stories, but at the end of the day, I am unknown, a writer lost in the crowd of millions of writers out there publishing each day, but those who read and purchase my books, I am eternally grateful for your readership, so thank you.
More to come on “The Whisper” and future book releases and updates so stay tuned!
It just happens in the Menagerie Locket, which takes place partially in a library. I love learning about cultures, people, of history, the past and present, it’s a source of interest and for my books.
Joe Meyers Adventures 