Once you get to the wedding it's worth the trip. This very short excerpt is from my novel Is Everybody Nuts? Spam Peckerpaw (Sam Peckinpah) the film director, and Schreve McBean (Steve McQueen) famous actor, search for the man in red robes and a giant rubber ball that blew up their World War 2 movie set. I wrote this novel in 1973 and kept it typed in a box for 40 years. (I sent a letter to the CEO of Putnam, one of the big publishers of the day, telling him he could make money off this book and I wanted someone to read it. A typical tyro mistake, but every writer makes them. He called me and wanted to know how I got his name and address. I told him I went to the library and looked him up in a corporate CEO book. It had been simple, really. I wondered how he made it to CEO. He guaranteed me someone would read it. The box came back a year later squashed flat with tire marks. So much for the visionary attitude of publishing at the time. Ha-ha. So it stayed in
My fiction, life in general, and war, with some pics from my Marine days in Vietnam.