Resting in Fulton Beach/Rockport

It’s time for another RECOMMENDED READING post.

Anything written by Alexandra Fuller. I’ve only read the two, Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, and Cocktail Hour Under The Tree Of Forgiveness, but boy does that lady have a story to tell. These are memoirs from her childhood and early adulthood in colonial Africa.  Cocktail Hour can be found here http://amzn.com/B004IYISJ4, and Don’t Let’s here http://amzn.com/B00CUG8GAS. I didn’t realize she had even more books until I was compiling this list today. Look’s like I’ve got some more Alexandra Fuller reading to do.

The Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch, but I’d advise watching the miniseries made out of it first, that way the shocking surprises will truly and surprisingly shock you. The books in question are Pines, Wayward, and The Last Town.

The series Wayward Pines will be on FOX starting May 14.  The books can be had here:  http://amzn.com/B007FG9LIE and  http://amzn.com/B00C1IPQZ8 and http://amzn.com/B00GUU9262 It’s quite a thrilling ride.

I can’t recommend the Grave novels of William Doonan too highly. They had me falling out of my chair laughing. Are good mysteries, too. About a very old man solving crime on cruise ships. Here’s the link to the first of them. You can find the rest through it.  Grave Passage  http://amzn.com/B0088JO4RK.

Texas longhorn from the Lockhart/Luling corridor

We just got through with AggieCon 46. Thanks to all of you who bought books by Gretchen Rix and Gretchen Lee Rix and Patrick Kampman. (I’m the two Gretchen’s, of course. Use my full name for romance novels. Patrick is his own man, and his books are pretty damn good).

WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:  Downbelow Station by C. J. Cherryh.  Frogged by Vivian Vande Velde.  A Taste of You by Irene Preston.

Go to http://rixcafetexican.com/entrees for a list of my  books and short stories.

Photos by Roxanne Rix.

Obviously, this isn’t wordless.

I’ll be part of the Meet the Authors event here next Saturday. Come out and visit.

This is actually a scene from the Halloween train ride at the Austin Zoo.

At the Welcome to Lockhart sign just before a trip to the Davis Mountains.

This is what yard art looks like in Texas.

WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:  Anniversary Day by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.

Check out my books at  Rix Cafe Texican

Photos by Roxanne Rix.

WRITING REPORT

Got to be a western if it’s got a bull on the cover!

The last day of February I finished the rough draft of the companion piece to The Safari Bride, The Cimarron Bride. Mind you, it’s a rough draft. I was supposed to have finished it at the end of January. Spent too much time watching TV, reading, sleeping, all sorts of stuff that interfered with the writing. Plus, there’s still a lot of work to be done on this, but I immediately launched into my next book, a science fiction mystery The Goodall Mutiny.

Start date on this was was March 1. It’s March 7 and I’ve only finished three chapters, but the good news here is that I might have a more complete first draft on this one than I did with The Cimarron Bride. At least that’s the plan. It’s also the plan to finish this one before April 1. We’ll know how that turned out pretty soon. Going to write a bit more on it tonight before I turn in.

Don’t forget to turn the clocks forward early Sunday morning. Daylight Savings Time begins.

Something else alerting you that it’s a western.

Photos by Roxanne Rix

Check out my books at  Rix Cafe Texican

WHAT I READ THIS WEEK:  Dexter’s Final Cut by Jeff Lindsay.  The Patterer by Larry Brill.  Necromancer Awakening by Nat Russo.  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs.