Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70
I am a reader, writer and researcher of early California history. I write both historical fiction and nonfiction.
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Sad shadows haunt the Santa Barbara, Calif, mission. Almost 4,000 Chumash Indians died there between 1796 and 1840, but none of them are even mentioned in the mission graveyard. The more I researched this tragedy the I knew I had to bring the story to light. I did in the historical novel, Dream Helper, A Novel of Early California.
Accomplishments
Willard Thompson was awarded The Sara Miller McCune Award by the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts to write Dream Helper, which also won an award as a work in progress at the Santa Barbara Writers' Conference. Valentine's Day, a short story, was awarded a prize at the East of Eden Writer's Conference.
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Rincon Publishing
P.O. Box 50235
Santa Barbara CA 93150
USA
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