Posted by Curt Iles on Nov 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments
View the short commercial-length book trailer for our new book, A Good Place at YouTube.
Posted by Curt Iles on Nov 23rd, 2009 | 0 comments
Some stories are too funny not to tell.
They say you should be careful talking to yourself out loud: especially when you start answering back.
Last week I was gassing up my truck on pump 4 at DeRidder’s WalMart. Just minding my own business, I glanced up at the Appalachian Trail* sticker on my truck’s back glass. Thinking back to my recent hiking trip on America’s most...
Posted by Curt Iles on Nov 19th, 2009 | 0 comments
Arriving at Lake Charles on a raft of logs.
In this excerpt from A Good Place, 12 year-old Mayo Moore, who has never been more than ten miles from home, travels down the Calcasieu River on a raft of logs with his father and other local men. On reaching the small town of Charleston (the 1862 name of present day Lake Charles) he is amazed at the sight of a huge raft of logs covering the end of...
Posted by Curt Iles on Nov 18th, 2009 | 0 comments
Read an interview and review on our new book, A Good Place, at the Beauregard Daily News.
We’re really excited about this new novel. It has sold over 500 copies in the first week and is getting positive feedback from readers and reviewers.
Posted by Curt Iles on Nov 18th, 2009 | 0 comments
One of my heroes, Bobby Bonds, told me this story a few years before his death:
As a teenager his Sunday School teacher was a WWII veteran named “Red” Harvey. Mr. Harvey told the boys in his class this amazing story:
“During the war, my plane was shot down over Germany and I was badly injured before parachuting into enemy territory, and was immediately captured. A German doctor did...