Dear Reader, I've been writing stories and poems for sixty years. I have a closet full of rejections. In 2013, I began to e-publish. I wrote Summer in 1998, but I published it first because it was my mother's favourite and it is dedicated to my wife, Carolyn, the love of my life. It is about love at first sight, pain and suffering, the difficult choices people face, and how love can overcome anything. Before My Shotgun Wedding is about growing up on a mountain in Kentucky in 1952 and it is a story that everyone can enjoy. The sequel: After My Shotgun Wedding is for adult readers. And I have th...