movie time

A double feature:

The Falcon Takes Over (1942)
Charlie Chan The Golden Eye (1948)

The first film is based on a Raymond Chandler
story "Farewell My Lovely." It also reminds me
of Richard Brautigan's Dreaming of Babylon.

Cronco and Marconi celebrate

An exclusive picture of our heroes
from The Robotic Age, Cronco and
Marconi, celebrating the publication
out on the town. Thanks Aaron, good
to see our friends again.

Kennedy review

Thank you to Larry Smith for this review of new book Kennedy:

Allen Frost’s new novel Kennedy, moves us 20 years ahead 

from his previous Roosevelt into the week around the Cuban 

Missile Crisis in October 1962. “Vintage” best describes this 

intimate tale of a young boy and his relationships with life in 

Bellingham, Washington, with girls, and with his much-loved 

grandparents. As in all of Frost’s work, the poet emerges in 

the details and in the swing of the prose, capturing youthful 

sensitivity and the emotions around love and loss.

The highway coming through his town forebodes disruption 

and change. “The machinery was already at work on the 

highway. It made a low rumble and clank like the engine 

room of a ferryboat.” His metaphors are little treasures found 

along the trail of this book’s details and plot. When he allows 

his mind to focus on a young classmate, “The yellow pencil 

drifted off course from words about the Colony and before 

he knew it, it had written Caroline. Her name had appeared 

so out of the blue it looked like someone had planted a 

flower in all those rows of lead colored words.”  

When his grandmother faces a great loss, he finds her 

changed, “She seemed to float out; he felt like he was 

holding onto a paper version of his grandmother. She 

could have been folded origami. If the breeze was any 

stronger, she might be swept into the sky.” These 

marvelous lines are woven around a simple plot that 

includes the words of then President John F. Kennedy 

whose courage and character balance out the losses 

then, as it still does today.

Thanks to Fred Sodt for his classic illustrations. 

Kennedy is woven in history and perspective 

and is a book for all time.

https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Allen-Frost/dp/1643703994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536190900&sr=1-1&keywords=allen+frost+kennedy

new books coming

I'm finishing up editing new book inspired
by travels to Ohio this summer. Also 8 other
books on the horizon. Stay tuned...

Ohio inspires

We are just back from Ohio and
I've been typing up a new book.

Charles Simic

While we were in Ohio, I was reading
Charles Simic books off Larry Smith's bookshelf.
I especially like The World Doesn't End which
reads like a telegram to James Tate and his book
of essays & memory Uncertain Certainty.

THE ROBOTIC AGE

The is the 2nd Good Deed Rain book 
with publishing date August 12th. 
(It was a superhuman effort to get 2 books 
published the same month! My thanks to 
Fred and Aaron.) THE ROBOTIC AGE is 
quite an adventure. I don't want to give too 
much away, but it's about a magician and 
his robot companion who spend the book 
tracking down 3 ghosts from a ship that 
sunk off Alaska. Mystery, comedy, and 
magic. It's fully illustrated throughout by 
artist Aaron Gunderson. Aaron's work is 
also seen in The Book of Ticks and 
A Hundred Dreams Ago. This is the 
summer drive-in movie blockbuster 
you've been waiting for! You'll love it! 
Stay tuned