Novels: Hawk Dancer (which is part one)
     Cloudburst (the companion novel)
     The 3rd book: Birch Clump Portfolio
     (Short Stories and poems)
Magazines: Birch Clump Villager (Literature & Art)
     Birch Clump Chronicle (pastoral issues)

About the North Country novels:

     Hawk Dancer and the companion novel Cloudburst, are works of historical fiction set in the pristine wilderness communities of the Upper Peninsula and Northern Wisconsin Great Lakes region. These are moving and at times dynamic accounts of the three major cultural grouping in the region, Native American, Euro-American and Métis (mixed race) from 1934 to the present day.
     The main protagonists, Richard Hawk Dancer White, and Job born in 1917 set the stage. Baby Boomers, Randy, Dean and Erik, also central characters in the accounting arrive in the very early 1950s. Real events of modern American history are played out through these main characters and dozens of their friends, family members and other relations.
     The author, who is no fan of honey drip or artificially sweetened run of the mill Christian novels, wrote these books with family friendly values in mind, yet are by no means soft and cuddly. There are plenty of good times and tender moments, but no with no sugar added. These novels, just like the real history they are set in, have their better moments and their dangerously trying times.
     The inter-cultural, inter-racial relationships are tested. Biases expose themselves; but over all, the novels move towards positive reality and possibilities.
     There are humorous moments like finding a skunk in the car; a student is caught in the act of trying to playfully booby trap the principal’s office door, and other backfiring of playful jokes. There are life’s tragic moments: a child is snatched, minor and major school yard scraps, a cross burning, a mother and son flee an abusive husband/father and a couple of dysfunctional families deal with more than their share of problems.
     Victories abound as the marginalized or down trodden find success and stability, the Civil rights Movement produces fruit, and lovers get married and a child’s seemingly miraculous cure brings estranged neighbors back together. That’s life for better or for worse.

About the 3rd book,
Birch Clump Portfolio

     This volume of short stories and poetry is expected to be on the book shelves by summer of 2010. This third volume introduces several new characters. Jason Olsen is a diminutive teen of the 1960’s, a tad bit on the quiet and unassuming side by outward appearances and resides in an impoverished trailer park in an otherwise middle class suburb. He’s in love with just past middle-middle class Linda Naughton with the naughty laugh. He’s Catholic and Métis (mixed race). She’s Lutheran and White. Their parents aren’t exactly comfortable with the relationship.
     He accidently set fire to his best (and only) pair of Sunday Dress trousers on Christmas Eve and talks to his friend in the full length closet mirror about the turmoil this has caused the family. He’s sweet, humorous at times, and manages to innocently blunder up dates and events. His best friend Jack and some sort of a distant relative named Amos tosses him into a river and nearly losses him.
     In other stories a fugitive is visited by the ghost of his victim, a grocer thumbs the meat scale, and young Paul Depue of White Fish Bay, wearing tight Jordach designer jeans, struts his stuff for the ladies at his down state government office job.
     Poems honor snakes found in an outhouse and a monk squealing rubber on a night time joy ride down country roads. One poem recalls a Supreme Court decision to honor treaty rights between the Anishinabe and the USA. Other poems open a window into a winter time jeweled forest, and of grey shadowed deer stealthily headed from the forest cover to drink from running streams at twilight.

WHAT IS A
STUMP JUMPER?
and what is a "Yooper?"

These novels are about Yoopers and Stump Jumpers; that is, about folks in the small villages and back woodlands of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Yooper comes from the initials "U.P." for Upper Peninsula. A Stump Jumper is an enderment for those who live in the woods and have lots of tree stumps to jump.

To Buy These Novels:

$34.95 for the Soft Cover Edition of Hawk Dancer from the publisher.
$27.95 for the soft coverr Edition of Cloudburst from the publisher.NOW: $24.95
Available from all major book sellers.

     Almost any brick and mortar, (the new term, I am told, for a good old fashioned neighborhood establishment) book store can order copies for you. You can also go on line and order from your favorite online web-store, such as Barns and Noble or Amazon dot com.

Discount Prices: You may purchase signed copies from me at discount prices. Contact me first to make sure I have a sufficient supply on hand. Hawk Dancer (the 1st novel) is $31 from me, and the second part, Cloudburst is $24.00. Both novels are $54 if you order both from me at the same time. Details: click here.

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