Hello again!

I’ve just polished up the Acorn Chamber of Commerce. If you like quirky characters and offbeat storytelling, please drop by!
http://duanesimolke.tripod.com/AcornTexas.html

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I graduated from Belmont University (BA, 89), Hardin-Simmons University (MA, 91), and Texas Tech University (Ph.D., 96), all with a major in English. Recently, the alumni publications of all three institutions included information about The Acorn Gathering: Writers Uniting Against Cancer!
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595227880/

Range Rider, the alumni newsmagazine of Hardin-Simmons University mentioned my contributions and those of another HSU alum: Timothy Morris Taylor. Tim and I both started at HSU in 1989.

When I was editor of the HSU school paper, The Brand, Tim contributed to a special letters-of-support issue I put together for sending to the troops in the Gulf War. He is a very creative and compassionate person, so I knew to contact him when I started work on my project The Acorn Gathering.

(One of HSU's most famous alums is Marion Zimmer Bradley, whose fantasy novels include The Mists of Avalon.)

HubStuff, a new arts/entertainment publication here in Lubbock, Texas, also featured information about The Acorn Gathering in recent issues.
http://www.hubstuff.net

Amazon.com has just added much more information about my science fiction thriller Degranon. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595213715/

The Return of Innocence: I’m co-authoring this fantasy novel with Antoinette Davis. A young woman stumbles into wild adventures and learns that, sometimes, going home is the most dangerous adventure of all! I’ve just posted a draft of the second chapter at AuthorsDen.

Chapter One http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=6677&AuthorID=1777

Chapter Two
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?AuthorID=1777&id=7605

If those Innocence links don’t work, please use the ones from my home page.
http://duanesimolke.com

That’s all for now! Thank you for taking the time to read about my work!