OK Then - New Member, checking in

I have two books published - one of them a memoir about my eccentric family "Our Grandpa Was an Alien" which I wrote because people who liked the nostalgia bits that I had on the website "The Daily Brief" liked them so much. The second book I meant to be a historical novel set on the American frontier - which most everyone classifies as a Western (sigh)
- "To Truckee's Trail" ... so, what the heck. It's set in the old West, but it is oneof those splendid stories that no one has ever heard about. My third book started as an account of another spendid, exciting story set on the Texas frontier, but that one morphed into the "Adelsverein Trilogy", which will be coming out in December, 2008 through Strider-Nolan. One of my blog fans calls it "Barsetshire With Cypress Trees and Lots of Side-Arms" - it's about the German settlers who wound up in the Texas Hill Country, all of a piece and all 7,000 of them...

Never heard of that? I guess it's wide open for me to write about! Seriously, give me an opening and I will tell you more than you ever wanted to know. My website is www.celiahayes.com - there's a nice selection of essays and links there.

I am looking for readers, readers who want to re-discover the old west, and go a little farther than B-movies, old TV shows and tired cliches. Any suggestions?

This is an interesting place, Celia. I think you'll like it here.

Hi Celia,

Welcome to the forum! Pull up a chair and join in the fun!
~Shelagh

Hi Celia.
Noting that your Grandpa was an Alien, I wrote of my grandfather too, and called his story, "Grandfather was a Bastard." I presume you knew of your grandfather; I did not know mine, thus I gave him a fictional story. You can't choose your relatives but in my case, I chose to add some color to the missing person. Welcome to the forum.


Jim Woods
www.ultrasw.com/jwoods

Welcome to the forum, Celia! I think you will find this bunch fun and interesting.

Welcome Celia! Hope you enjoy getting your feet wet and having some fun here!

WELCOME

Your work sounds wild. Welcome to this place: sometimes it's also wild.

Malcolm

Welcome to the forum Celia, glad to have you with us.

Welcome Celia.

A hearty welcome.

Hi Celia!

Truckee??? Been there! I live in Reno!

Texas Hill Country??? Been there too! Used to live in Austin.

Are you following me around????

Welcome!!! This is a super nice place!

Enjoyed browsing your website, Celia. Welcome.

From one Alien to your Grandpa and especially to you

Hi Celia! I'm new too...MM

Always late with welcomes, so please excuse me. Enjoyed looking at your site.

What do you mean, Malcolm as sometimes wild? I thought it was wild all the time.

I don't want to scare people, Sue.

Wild can be good! Depends on one's definition. I know, here I go again on definitions.