The year is 1980. William "Bill" Stanton is a farmer. Together with his wife Marianne and their three children, BJ "Bill" Junior, Emily, and Rose, and their family dog Flash, they manage the crops on Stanton Acres. Since the mid-1800's, the early Stanton pioneers have farmed in the Salmon Creek Valley near the Western Foothills. William Stanton loves routine and hates risk, and he is obsessed with outer space. The Salmon Creek Valley, Bookerton, Waddington, Ironwood, and Carona City, complete the image of authentic rural life. Until a space probe crashes into the Stanton barnyard. Life...

On The Run is a novel of love and survival. The time is a modern history of anarchy when everyone did what was right in their own eyes. Corinne is fourteen years old. Adam who is her godfather and Corinne are on the run from the Hunters, who are bounty hunters for The Collection Agency, a national government initiative to boost the economy by taking "surplus" young girls and selling them into the international sex trade. The setting for the book is a fictionalized Pacific northwest coast, which is also the author's home. On The Run was written especially for a young adult audience, but many...

"Insightful, intimate, self-reflective bordering on the macabre, sensual. An intimate look into the private life of an artist and his models, reflecting the author's own experience." Vincent Proudfoot is a young Onondaga native from Upper New York State. He is an emerging artist who struggles with a persistent conflict between his native identity and the glamour of an outside art world. He is modestly successful but not fulfilled. A visit to ArtExpo 80 in New York changes him forever. Determined he leaves for Seattle to begin a new life as an artist. He discovers a passion for drawing nude...

The epic poem, "Weatherstone: the Quest for E'veden," is the second journey of Cerulean, the long distance voyager. Volume Two is a story of personal growth and discovery in search of the mystical city E'veden. It is written in a poetically and prophetically confessional style that celebrates the natural surroundings of the Pacific northwest. Volume Two comprises two books. In Book Four, we are introduced to the distant history of Cerulean's ancestors, named Farfarers, and their mystical island Fara'way, some 6000 years before the Great Deluge. In Book Five, Cerulean's ancestors Forerunner...

"Legend of the Copper Canoe" is the 5th book in the epic poem, "Weatherstone: the Quest for E'veden," by Gerrit Verstraete. "Legend" is the story of Madon, builder of the fabled copper canoe thousands of years before the modern era. The long poem also introduces the "Stranger" who embodies Madon's quest to seek truth in an unknown place called E'veden. "Legend" is rich in metaphor and symbolism, and is written in free verse and Imagist style inspired by British Columbia's spectacular west coast. Devotional and inspirational in content, Madon's journey reflects the spiritual journey of the...