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3 Novels in 2025

Good Deed Rain published 3 novels in 2025:

MOAT chapters

The Introduction to MOAT

Eight years ago, I wrote The Lake Walker. This isn’t The Revenge of The Lake Walker. That book seems fine left where it is, but I brought back Rudolph for a brief cameo. There are lots of characters in this book who have appeared in previous books. If you’ve been reading them, you’ll remember The Book of Ticks, A Field of Cabbages, The Robotic Age, Lexington Brown and the Pond Projector. Probably more. Each one of the books I write has been a dream. When you dream, don’t you go back and forth to familiar places and people? I’m too busy writing new books to reread my old ones, so I don’t remember all that went on in The Lake Walker, but I think there was something about a leaf and life and death. It’s easy to be haunted, there’s probably a phonebook for ghosts looking for someone to haunt. Newsprint turns, and a ghost comes from the water in search of Phil Ticks. Hopefully Phil will know what to do. They’re not easy to put to rest. Another story I don’t quite remember is The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Picture that medieval town, coal smoke, stone streets, tilted, shutters, wooden carts, overrun by rats. What exactly happened after they cheated the piper and he stole all their children away? It depends on the version, right? It depends on the time and place. A 14th century wood carving or the golden light of a 1940s Disney cartoon. But something about it remains the same, we keep learning the same lesson over again. A story like that doesn’t seem to end.

meanwhile at work...

MOAT

The aqueduct is draining Lake Pardon to make a moat. The city is being torn apart. Can it be stopped? Summon the ghosts of the submarine, call forth the spirit of the cedar trees. A modern Pied Piper fable and a sign of the times. There are two different versions of this novel in soft cover and hardbound. Publication is January 7, 2026. It’s a fun read!

MOAT Spread

This is the cover spread. Novel features drawings by author. Cover designed by Rob Millis

MOAT

MOAT

Here's the cover for the new novel MOAT

busy with 3

Been busy! Getting a new novel ready for publication in December. Also preparing the first two books for 2026. Stay tuned! Good Deed Rain on the way.

walking home!

the beautiful planet

reverse destruction

memories pass by

Here's a page from the next novel to be published soon:

Rhino

old yeller

The Elevator Gallery

After YEARS of wanting to see it happen, I finally created THE ELEVATOR GALLERY in the Fine Arts Dept! New student artwork will appear every couple weeks or so.

rabbit

treeeees

Wallpaper Chapters

Here are the chapter titles for THE WALLPAPER WORLD, getting published end of this month.

Imagine the Moment

The pocket protector was invented during World War II by Hurley Smith while he was working in Buffalo, New York.

penny magic

Another kizmet event. My 2023 novel One Drop In The Milky Way featured an Abe Lincoln impersonator on the run, living in the Alumni House. Just read a campus report: "At 12:01 p.m. this afternoon, University Police were dispatched to WWU Alumni House after an alarm in the building was activated. Upon arriving at the building, a male suspect was located inside, taken into custody, and charged with burglary in the 2nd degree, a felony." Question: Did he look like the guy on the penny??

Chapter 4

Spooky start from Chapter 4 of The Wallpaper World

Chapter 29

Here's a pagespread from the paperback version of The Wallpaper World. (The hardbound version of book is different). Natalia is at the laundromat.

page 106

from THE WALLPAPER WORLD

THE WALLPAPER WORLD

New novel published next month. THE WALLPAPER WORLD. "Two friends steal flowers from a dream. Ages later, their crime calls them back to the wallpaper door." This is my 70th book, available in hardbound and soft cover editions that are different. It's another wild ride if you're ready. From the bestselling author of FLOP. Cover by Rob Millis, ukelelist artist.

drive-in magic

I'm doing revisions on my 71st book and part of it takes place at the old Drive-In theater in town. That was one of the town treasures and draws for living here. It's long gone now, WWU turned it into a parking lot. BUT in my book's world, I revived it! Authors have the magic ability to do that. And now look what just happened:

Presenting The Rumpler Tropfenwagen

Orson and Carl

Orson Welles makes Carl Sandburg appear from a deck of cards

apple tree electricity

cooper's hawk on the trail

view from the tower

our quaint little fishing village

#70

Finished book #70. Getting it ready for publication. Stay tuned.

deer sighting

Asking for a cup of tea outside our kitchen window

reincarnation

Moe meets his reincarnated sister in Hoofs and Goofs

waiting for The 3 Stooges

Fake Polynesia

in the future

Batman sighting

"Stay in the car, Robin."

kangaroo sighting

On the Kinks record cover Sunny Afternoon, one can't help but notice Captain Kangaroo's jacket worn on left.