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Book One:
Creator’s Hope
Author’s Note
The recommended practice in the book-writing trade is for the creator of the work to have an author’s website.
It should preferably be slick and professionally designed, glorify the author’s great talent, and showcase published works.
Well, that’s not for me.
As most authors do, I hope that the work will be widely circulated, hopefully enjoyed, and perhaps even respected here and there.
As for myself, I do not want public attention, positive or negative. I intend to keep my identity from public view and knowledge for as long and as much as I can.
I request that friends and family respect my desire for anonymity.
If anyone publicly claims to know my identity, I will not confirm your claim until such time as it becomes difficult to maintain anonymity or until I choose to let my identity be known.
Until such time, I am using the pseudonym and avatar, ”Plug.”
Plug is also the fictional narrator and a participant in the story. I apologize for any confusion this may cause.
Some details about me:
This is my first piece of published fiction, not counting a short story of mine that was published without my consent or advance knowledge (but I was flattered) in a college literary magazine in the 1970s.
I have worked for a living as a nonfiction writer or editor, or both at once, or as a publisher, much of the time since 1966. I have also worked delivering newspapers on a paper route, and as a golf caddie at a country club, restaurant busboy, road worker on a municipal road department, electrician’s helper, general construction worker, convenience store clerk, U.S. Senate staff member, and lobbyist.
I grew up in a small town in the Northeast and attended colleges there and in Washington, D.C., and California. I have a master of fine arts degree.
I have also lived in the Midwest and the Pacific Northwest.
I’ve been in love. You should be able to surmise from the context that one of those persons was named Suzanne.
I have been far from perfect as a parent. You might see echoes of that in the story.
Otherwise, A Prayer for Mother Earth is not autobiographical or about anyone I know or knew.