I'd like to swap betas with one or two experienced writers.
Do you enjoy the American Civil War, and the wild west?
My 78K WIP is in its fifth draft. It's pretty solid, but I'd like a few experienced writers to look it over. Of course, I'd love to swap crits. I'm pretty detail-oriented, so I'll catch a few things.
PM or email: [email protected].
Here's a blurb of Swallow the Dog:
Young Jeremiah Clark, the son of a Civil War hero who never lived to see his face, plows fields with his aging grandfather. They can only hope to clear two dollars a week in post-war Jackson County, Missouri. But even that isn’t possible when U.S. Marshal, Daniel P. Upham heads Hiram Cantrell off to Leavenworth Prison on charges of murder.
But one Federal soldier returns to help the boy with his rebel grandfather’s trial. Turns out, the kindly old patriarch was a Quantrill Raider during the war, and plenty good at killing. The boy is drawn into a reckoning of his grandfather’s dark past, and comes of age by way of his own trials and tribulations.
This book is unique because it comes from a hardscrabble Missouri partisan raider perspective -- fighting since Bleeding Kansas. Not the Nor'eastern Yankee perspective, like we most often hear. It's pretty hardcore. You might even come away believing Missouri had good cause for secession and the second Civil War that nearly erupted in the decade following.
Do you enjoy the American Civil War, and the wild west?
My 78K WIP is in its fifth draft. It's pretty solid, but I'd like a few experienced writers to look it over. Of course, I'd love to swap crits. I'm pretty detail-oriented, so I'll catch a few things.
PM or email: [email protected].
Here's a blurb of Swallow the Dog:
Young Jeremiah Clark, the son of a Civil War hero who never lived to see his face, plows fields with his aging grandfather. They can only hope to clear two dollars a week in post-war Jackson County, Missouri. But even that isn’t possible when U.S. Marshal, Daniel P. Upham heads Hiram Cantrell off to Leavenworth Prison on charges of murder.
But one Federal soldier returns to help the boy with his rebel grandfather’s trial. Turns out, the kindly old patriarch was a Quantrill Raider during the war, and plenty good at killing. The boy is drawn into a reckoning of his grandfather’s dark past, and comes of age by way of his own trials and tribulations.
This book is unique because it comes from a hardscrabble Missouri partisan raider perspective -- fighting since Bleeding Kansas. Not the Nor'eastern Yankee perspective, like we most often hear. It's pretty hardcore. You might even come away believing Missouri had good cause for secession and the second Civil War that nearly erupted in the decade following.
