Theodore P. Druch's Posts - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T13:24:11ZTheodore P. Druchhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/TheodorePDruchhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/60997376?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=0s228h4wm0vr8&xn_auth=noHeist of the (15th) Centurytag:crimespace.ning.com,2011-07-27:537324:BlogPost:3020662011-07-27T03:28:25.000ZTheodore P. Druchhttps://crimespace.ning.com/profile/TheodorePDruch
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #333333;"> I may be here under somewhat false pretenses, so let me begin by confessing before you beat it out of me with truncheons. I am not a writer of crime fiction - at least not yet. In fact, until a few years ago, I wasn't a writer of anything besides voice-overs for my numerous travel videos, and nasty and satirical responses to the idiots on various blog sites,usually political.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #333333;" class="font-size-3"> I may be here under somewhat false pretenses, so let me begin by confessing before you beat it out of me with truncheons. I am not a writer of crime fiction - at least not yet. In fact, until a few years ago, I wasn't a writer of anything besides voice-overs for my numerous travel videos, and nasty and satirical responses to the idiots on various blog sites,usually political.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;" class="font-size-3"> I began my writing career in 2009 with the self-publication of a book about my travels with my wife and two dogs in a beat-up old motor home through Mexico and Central America, <strong>Footprints on a Small Planet</strong>. Among the travel tales and descriptions of the various places we visited over nearly three years, I peppered the narrative with short stories about the ancient peoples who lived in the ruins we saw.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;" class="font-size-3"> The book took off like a brick outhouse in a hollow.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #333333;" class="font-size-3"> I started a second travel book about a year-and-a-half in a European motor home. It's about a third done, but I lost interest when it occurred to me that it might be more fun to take an episode from our travels and expand it into book length. This I did with <strong>African Odyssey,</strong> the account of an impromptu trip we had to make because of a visa problem. A weekend jaunt turned into a month-long adventure.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> For six months, in 2009, I suffered a serious illness that kept me at death's door. The demons that afflicted me as a result I exorcised by writing <strong>The Reapers Carol</strong>, a book length account of the ordeal.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> For several years during the sixties and seventies, I was a member of an American Yoga ashram, and for a year-and-a-half, we lived with Timothy Leary at his estate in Millbrook, NY. I had always thought that there was material here for an interesting novel or two, so I wrote a sort of autobiographical one about the period, <strong>Millbrook Memories</strong>. Since it's all about breaking laws, getting harassed and arrested, and facing grand Juries and the like, I suppose I could shoehorn it into the Crime genre, but it would take a bit of stretching.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> Now, I've decided that I have enough writing experience to try my hand at longer fiction than short stories, and am currently working on an historical novel/.saga/.adventure that does include a heist.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> Set in 1492, it follows the exploits of a Spanish Jewish family expelled from Spain as they get embroiled in a plot to find and return the mythical lost harp of King David to his tomb in Jerusalem.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> I hope I live long enough to find out how it ends. </font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> That's up to the characters, I guess, but they keep taking themselves off on adventures far exceeding the modern standard for novel size, and they refuse to listen to reason. "You created us O Lord" They say, "Now leave us alone and let us get on with our lives."</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> Who can argue with a pirate captain brandishing a sword under your nose?</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> I will be publishing the chapters in serial form on my blog at: <a href="http://selfpublishedandbroke.wordpress.com/">http://selfpublishedandbroke.wordpress.com/</a> which also contains links to all my other books.</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333"> I invite all who are intrigued, to check it out, shameless self-promoter that I am.</font></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333">Theodore P. Druch</font></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3"><font color="#333333">(Ted to my friends, and you are my friends, particularly if you buy my books. Let's not get carried away by sentimentality.)</font></span></p>
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