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At the start of each season, Bill contributes a personal letter to the website. Here's his latest.

Hancock, New Hampshire
Autumn Equinox 2008

Dear Friends:

It's that time of year again. Our roadsides are awash in crimson and gold, the out-of-state leaf peepers clog our highways, and the litter of political signs are a blight upon the landscape. Autumn in New England.

I am enjoying good health these days. I'm back teaching at Clark University -- a first-year seminar on Thoreau's Walden, a creative writing workshop, and a course on novel writing. After spending much of the spring semester in the hospital, it feels very good to be teaching again.

Hell Bent, my 24th Brady Coyne novel, is just out. Imagine that! Two dozen books in this series. That's one a year since 1984. And I have just begun work on the next one, as yet untitled.

Meanwhile, I have finished a draft of my next Stoney Calhoun adventure. This one I'm presently calling Dark Tiger. The first two--Bitch Creek and Gray Ghost--have been translated into French and produced by a French publisher. It's fun to practice my high-school French on my own books.

If you've seen the October issue of The Writer magazine, you've seen my face looking at you from the cover.

Now that she's not preoccupied with nursing me, God bless her, Vicki is working on another Tally Whyte novel in between producing auction catalogs, taking pictures, marketing her photography, and photographing weddings.

Our kids continue to make us proud even as they experience the changes and ups and downs that life presents. Both Blake and Mike have negotiated severances with their old employers. Sarah has settled into a new teaching job (7th grade reading) in Dedham, MA. Ben continues to work with his dad in Charleston, SC, and Melissa remains the court attorney at the Family Court in San Francisco.

Mike is celebrating his new status by traveling, mostly via mountain bike, in Thailand and Laos for the month of October.

Vicki and I and our pets continue to enjoy our life here at Chickadee Farm on our dirt road in rural New Hampshire along with the wild turkeys, black bears, whitetail deer, red foxes, woodchucks, coyotes, ruffed grouse, barred owls, sharpshin hawks, and myriad songbirds who share their woods and meadows with us, and with all of our dear friends from Hancock.

Bill

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	At the start of each season, Bill contributes a personal letter to the website. Here's his latest. Hancock, New Hampshire Autumn Equinox 2008 Dear Friends: It's that time of year again. Our roadsides are awash in crimson and gold, the out-of-state leaf peepers clog our highways, and the litter of political signs are a blight upon the landscape. Autumn in New England. I am enjoying good health these days. I'm back teaching at Clark University -- a first-year seminar on Thoreau's Walden, a creative writing workshop, and a course on novel writing. After spending much of the spring semester in the hospital, it feels very good to be teaching again. Hell Bent, my 24th Brady Coyne novel, is just out. Imagine that! Two dozen books in this series. That's one a year since 1984. And I have just begun work on the next one, as yet untitled. Meanwhile, I have finished a draft of my next Stoney Calhoun adventure. This one I'm presently calling Dark Tiger. The first two--Bitch Creek and Gray Ghost--have been translated into French and produced by a French publisher. It's fun to practice my high-school French on my own books. If you've seen the October issue of The Writer magazine, you've seen my face looking at you from the cover. Now that she's not preoccupied with nursing me, God bless her, Vicki is working on another Tally Whyte novel in between producing auction catalogs, taking pictures, marketing her photography, and photographing weddings. Our kids continue to make us proud even as they experience the changes and ups and downs that life presents. Both Blake and Mike have negotiated severances with their old employers. Sarah has settled into a new teaching job (7th grade reading) in Dedham, MA. Ben continues to work with his dad in Charleston, SC, and Melissa remains the court attorney at the Family Court in San Francisco. Mike is celebrating his new status by traveling, mostly via mountain bike, in Thailand and Laos for the month of October. Vicki and I and our pets continue to enjoy our life here at Chickadee Farm on our dirt road in rural New Hampshire along with the wild turkeys, black bears, whitetail deer, red foxes, woodchucks, coyotes, ruffed grouse, barred owls, sharpshin hawks, and myriad songbirds who share their woods and meadows with us, and with all of our dear friends from Hancock. Bill

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