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Hoping this isn't inappropriate on this forum, I'd like to announce my 'A Place On Mars' Series of three novels and three 'novelettes' on Kindle Direct Publishing to the car modeling community:  these are original young-adult tales about growing up in a remote westen small town in the early-boomer era, and are not sci-fi!  

They are loaded  with cars, trucks and even crawler tractors, garage band rock n' roll, family values, plus danger and adventure!  All reflect, of course, some experiences I had c. 1959-64, though vastly dramatized.  Street racing, wildfire supression, college life, police matters (ahem!), demolition derby, deer hunting, boys n' girls...  

Kindle eBooks are very cheap ($2.99) and the paperbacks not expensive (about double that, right now) available through Amazon.  Friends, I never expected to make bank from these stories, but I do need some reviews, or just ratings -- otherwise, Kindle lets my titles get buried under newer ones, and thus don't get read.  Financially, I'm still trying to earn enough to offset the cost of donating sets of six to our local middle schools, etc.!

The characters are very diverse, just as I encountered in real life high school (and in my teaching career) and have teen issues that progressively get more complex and stressful, but good friendship and 'The Golden Rule' are enough glue for the five friends, four boys and a girl -- who is also daughter of the local sheriff!  THE FLOOD, THE WILDFIRE, and THE EXPLOSION are full novels, and THE HAZARDOUS HUNT, THE HIT & RUN, and THE DEADLY DERBY are shorter novelettes.  All are barely "PG-13 rated."  If you don't recall how hard it was for a garage band to afford decent equipment, or how a kid might leverage himself from one clunker to a better one, or how it was to attend a rural high school of 300 kids -- give my stories a read.  Or, if you DO! 

In the first story, Ray debates the financial wisdom of taking a girl to the Sophomore Hop: "A dollar, drag? I could get an AMT 3-in-1 kit for that!"

Thanks, Wick Humble        (Modeling since 1953, age 79.)

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