Romantic Fiction Author Rusty Blackwood’s December Newsletter 2017 …

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Romantic Fiction Author Rusty Blackwood’s December Newsletter 2017 …

Romantic Fiction Author.

Canadian Romantic Fiction Author.

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Greetings everyone, and Blessing of the Season to each of you!

 I hope everyone had a lovely, peaceful, and safe Christmas. This year, at least in Niagara, we had a traditional Christmas with snow everywhere. I’m sure it was the same throughout Canada as well as the northern United States, and though you may not savor snow in all its often binding pleasure, it is still pretty to see on rooftops, lawns and trees. It really does look like an old fashioned Victorian Christmas card in many ways, snow glistening in the sunshine, and peaceful and soft in the moonlight. I just wish it would stay off of the roads and sidewalks. It is frigidly cold, so please be careful when you are out and about.

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 I don’t have a lot of literary news this month as I have been busy with Christmas preparations and the whole nine yards that surround this festive season.  I look forward to it most years, and I very much enjoyed it this year as well. But I must admit to feeling somewhat neglective of my writing as I’ve not sat at my keyboard with that intention in a few weeks, but as soon as New Year’s is over, I shall be returning to my upcoming, romantic fiction drama, The Perils of Autumn. 

I am enjoying the creation of this novel very much, and I hope my readers will enjoy the journey they will take throughout the pages when it is released in late spring of 2018. At least I’m hoping it will be ready for release then, but in the independent field of publishing one never knows, or can be definite about a solid date. But late spring is my projection, and hopefully the novel’s release can be celebrated then. In each end of month Newsletter leading up to the projected release, I shall offer insight into the novel through a short excerpt which I hope will create interest and enjoyment. This month I have chosen from Chapter 2:

From Gloucestershire to Lexington

“The horses are in the gate – the buzzer poised to ring … This race is going to be a tight one, folks, but I’d put my money on the sorrel stallion, ridden by none other than last year’s Triple Crown winner, Cyril Landon! I don’t mind telling you, folks, this young jockey has got what it takes; a winner in every sense of the word! The tension is rising. The sorrel appears somewhat nervous, pawing the ground frantically as if he can barely wait for the buzzer to sound – rein him in, Landon – hold him tight! Steady … steady … The buzzer sounds. They’re off!” At the sound of the loud buzzer, Cyril Landon swiftly opened his eyes and rose for the day, shaking his head in dismay with the realization it was just a dream, another damn dream, taunting him with unrealized desires.

Cyril Andrew Landon had struggled throughout his entire motherless youth in the depressed village of South Woodchester, Gloucestershire, but the brow-beaten Englishman, born in the early spring of 1923, was determined to rise above the poverty-stricken life that had befallen his down and out father, and he would settle for nothing less than a one way ticket out. This wonted need seemed a pipedream, an impossible wish to fulfill, regardless of the self-inflicted demands to make it happen. Time marched on, and with it came the Second World War. Cyril was a proud young man, and though his station in life was not what he would have chosen, the pride he felt for his country was immense. But he had not only been born to poverty, he was born with flat feet, a condition that exempted him from conscription. He was not ashamed of this unfortunate infliction, but he was not proud of it either, especially when ridiculed by others suggesting he was using his condition to evade the fight. This always bothered him, but he rose above it, just as he did his inferior station in life.

By 1944, twenty one year old Cyril had chosen his goal, but he realized it was not going to materialize if he remained in England, so he packed his meager belongings, along with what money he had managed to save from working as a stable hand on a small farm located outside the town, and jumped a steamer to New York City, where he found employment in restaurant kitchens. It was there, while working grueling hours in the rat-infested kitchens in the lower south Bronx, when he came upon an ad in The New York Times, inquiring a head groom at an up and coming racing stable known as Meadow Green. The stable was located just outside Lexington Kentucky in a posh community known as The Meadows. This opportunity presented not only a decent paying job, but one that offered a future. Cyril couldn’t wait to apply; in fact it took great concentration to keep his hand from shaking long enough to write his reply.

Before long he had received word to come for an interview. He lost no time in packing his weathered suitcase, and hopping the train to Lexington Union Station where he took a beat-up old taxi to the awaiting stables to meet the owner. Oliver Green was a middle aged, childless widower who was looking for someone to learn the stable’s business, and eventually take control. The two men hit it off immediately, as if they had been best friends in a prior life, and before long Cyril’s duties grew to a management position. Oliver Green was more than pleased with the immaculate results he saw, and he also thought the world of Cyril as well as his staunch work ethics. He knew he had found his successor, and upon his death in the late winter of 1955, left the sole ownership of his enormous two hundred and fifty acre property to his protégé.

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For the last two weeks and a half leading up to Christmas, the beautiful, 5-star award winning Willow’s Walk has been sponsoring Joe Crawfords’ morning Warrior Weather Updates, and informative updates they have been, especially with his DYK – Did You Know segments. Willow will continue to sponsor until the end of the first week of 2018. I am most pleased to have my work sponsor these fine updates that Joe presents each morning on his website at:  https://www.facebook.com/JoeShowLive/ Be sure to check him out! And be sure to visit my official website https://rusty-blackwood.com for informative news on my Journal/Blog, and for the latest reviews and news of my work.

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I have had a pretty good year. In the summer I released the comedy, Derwood Returns,  the follow up to 2012’s adult comedy, The Misadventures of Derwood Tugbottom. 

I had such enjoyment writing this follow up, and am planning a third later this year. The audacious and hilarious character of Derwood Justice Tugbottom is very dear to me because he came from my brother’s vivid imagination. A wonderful gift for me, and an endless writing tool in which to create with. If you have not yet read this knee-slapping comedy, or the original, I hope you will do so. This title, and all my titles, are available at http://www.amazon.com and http://www. amazon.ca. They are also available at http://www.createspace.com.

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I am looking forward to a fresh new year of creative writing, events, and sharing my monthly news. In the world of writing there is always new horizons, fresh scenarios, and countless ideas to be tried and tackled. I want to thank each and everyone of you who so kindly support my work in the many ways that you do. Without your support and encouragement, I may as well retire my pen and keyboard, because an audience is required to reap the benefits of what an author writes. I look forward to seeing all of you in the New Year, and sharing time and or conversations. It’s so delightful to meet new and interesting people that stop by my table at events, or wherever I may be. And it is always an ongoing pleasure to see and speak with those whom I have known for years. As 2017 draws to a close, I want to wish each and every one of you a very Happy, Healthy, Peaceful and Prosperous 2018.

See you next year!

Rusty Blackwood.

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