Celia Hayes, Jeanne Hayden

The Luna City Compendium #1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas! Population ... well, that varies, depending on the time of year. Luna City; whose Town Square is the architectural jewel of South Texas. Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse. Once meant to be a stop on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad, but derailed by True Love … Where there might be a fortune in gold hidden somewhere for the last hundred years …. Where half the townsfolk has the surname of Gonzalez or Gonzales, they're all related and descended from the holder of the original Spanish land grant but no one has ever been able to figure out whether his name ended in an 's' or a 'z', due to illegible handwriting on the original paperwork! A historic marker on Town Square marks the spot where a local bootlegger was nearly hung in 1926 for (among a long list of offenses against the laws of God and Man) impersonating a nun! Luna City, where eccentricity is just a part of every-day life. Drop in for a visit - you might never want to leave.

Produktdetails

• Collected Chronicles of Luna City Nr.1
• Verlag: Watercress Press
• Seitenzahl: 598
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 958g
• ISBN-13: 9780989782340
• ISBN-10: 0989782344
• Artikelnr.: 58368493

Autorenporträt

Celia Hayes has always been passionately interested in the history of the American frontier. She was brought up in an eccentric, baby-boom family which formed the basis of a memoir, Our Grandpa Was an Alien. She earned a degree in English, served for 20 years in the US Air Force, and another ten years as a secretary and office administrator in various large and small business enterprises. Currently, she is the owner of Watercress Press, a small local subsidy press specializing in local history.

Her first novel, To Truckee's Trail, grew out of a fascination with the California emigrant trail. The Adelsverein Trilogy, and its companion novels - Daughter of Texas, Deep in the Heart, The Quivera Trail, and Sunset & Steel Rails drew on an interest in the German settlement of the Texas Hill Country, and the dramatic sweep of history in the Lone Star State. She has also authored a collection of adventures intended for younger readers, Lone Star Sons, set in the time of the Republic of Texas. With her daughter, Jeanne Hayden, she has also co-authored Chronicles of Luna City, and The Second Chronicle of Luna City, a collection of comic short stories set in present-day small town South Texas. The third volume of Luna City stories is due out in November, 2016, as well as another historical novel about the California Gold Rush -- The Golden Road.

More about her writing is at the websites www.celiahayes.com and www.lunacitytexas.com.