Welcome To THE SECOND SEASON

It turned out that the town of Maysville was much better suited for what I was trying to present with the book.  I made several trips to that fine city stationed along the Ohio River, met some of the towns folk, and took in the neighborhood where I planned to establish the Wilson’s residence.  Sonny would be a small town boy from a troubled, semi-rural family who desperately wanted to escape the domestic conflict and seek his fortune in the big city.  He was like many of the young people of that post WWII and Korean War era in that he believed that the world was expanding at a record pace and the grass had to be greener elsewhere.

I finished the manuscript in mid 2001 and submitted the pages to an editor.  He thought the script flowed quite nicely…until the final twenty or so pages.  Then it really dragged.  He was right, but I had no remedy for the problem.  I set TSS aside for a bit, then Greenwood Publishing came calling about a previous non-fiction manuscript I had written tentatively titled The Date Which Lives In Infamy.  They changed the title to Reflections of Pearl Harbor, offered me a contract for that manuscript, and that successful venture sold over 1000 copies to libraries and the general public.  All in all, Reflections took two years of my writing time, but I was more than happy to devote that time to such a worthy project. 

During that period, I never completely forgot about TSS.  I continually ran alternate endings through my head, and in 2006, I ventured back into the manuscript.  The wait proved to be the perfect move as the proper ending revealed itself, I submitted the manuscript to another editor, and they were pleased with the effort.