I took a little time off to try to edit my earlier recordings in an attempt to make “real” audio books (still in the process). Listening to myself read the entire first book again took a while, and then I was deleting errors, and all of that made me sick of my own voice (again).
But I wanted to get Book 6 going, so here are the first two chapters of Flight of the Wounded Falcon. And because there are a LOT of new characters (it’s been 25 years, after all) in the form of children and grandchildren, here are a few charts to help keep everyone straight.
Another book is finished–whew! I will begin Book 6 in a few weeks, I promise. Here are the last three chapters of Book 5, SALEM.
I was floored a few years ago when Bethany Cousins emailed me saying she’d been inspired by the books and she and her husband wrote a song about the series! Recently they redid it, adding more harmonies. (I LOVE the bridge! Gives me goosebumps.)
She graciously let me use it, and today I tried my hand at making a VERY basic music video with the lyrics. Yeah, I won’t be doing this professionally, but boy, it was a very fun way to spend the evening! (Yes, I also know there’s a missing “n” in Darkness. I’m trying to figure out how to fix that.)
(Most of the photos I took in Yellowstone, Utah, and even Florida; the others, such as the very first one, I’ve purchased the licenses for.)
Lyrics below: V1
Darkness covered our steps
The woods were calling us deep into the night
What once meant danger has now turned Into the safest place to hide PC1 The impossible came to be before my weary eyes
With school finishing this month, I’ve not had as much time to record as I hoped. I have BIG dreams for the summer, which means I’m completing underestimating how much time I’ll have during my 9 weeks of summer break . . . Here are a few more chapters which I love, love, love.
Have I really not updated for a month?! Sheesh, I’m sorry! Subscribe to my YouTube channel and you won’t miss updates in the future, when I get distracted or neglectful.
I spent a few vacations in Yellowstone National Park imagining how these chapters could go. Don’t worry, I never left the boardwalk. But there are also many trails without boardwalk that allows one the option of testing a few practical theories . . .
Here are the first two chapters, a little delayed because even though I live in a tropical area now, my bronchitis still thinks it needs to visit me each year. (Maybe Arizona will be the only place where I don’t cough up a lung?)
SALEM–Safety Assured leaving East of Medicetti picks up immediately where Book 4 leaves off, with Perrin and Mahrree trusting random people who show up in the middle of the night, and Peto thinking his parents are desperate, cowardly, and meek for going along with their plan.
Naturally, the teenager knows he’s going to save the day.
But we all know this isn’t that kind of book series.
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