Rooms Update / Wheatgrass Sample / Started A New Book / A Poem

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ROOMS

by Bob Stegner

(Trish Steele)

ROOMS UPDATE

I wanted to share with you that I've been thinking a lot about a possible sequel to Rooms.  I've been working on some ideas.

Below are five links.  Clicking on any of these will give you a better idea of what Rooms and Wheatgrass: An Irish Fantasy are about.

Rooms' Teaser

Rooms' Excerpt: Chapters 1-2

Rooms' Chapter Titles

Wheatgrass: An Irish Fantasy

To learn more about Wheatgrass, click and read either the Teaser or the Chapters 1-2 Sample below. If you would like a copy of the complete book, it's been published on Amazon.com in both paperback and kindle versions. Simply click on the book cover to go to it on Amazon.

Wheatgrass: An Irish Fantasy published and for sale on Amazon.com

Paperback - $3.23

Kindle version - $0.99 

Wheatgrass' Teaser

Wheatgrass' Excerpt

New Book

I started a new book.  I've been itching to begin something new since I finished Rooms.  I remembered a halloween story that I wrote for my students when I ran Peregrine School in Alaska.  It was titled Beatrice.  I loved reading it to them, but I lost it somewhere, so the other day I decided to start writing it again.  As I wrote, it began changing.  I could see a lot more happening and got excited, so I began doing some research. Now I think I might have my next book.  When I was a singer/songwriter, I loved to write many different types of songs, and I think I'm very much the same when it comes to prose or poetry.  This book will not be science fiction.  It will be a fantasy/mystery/thriller.  It will take place in a location in Europe in an old family mansion.  I'll let you know more as I get into it, but I think it's going to be a blast!!

POETRY

"Barren"

by Bob Stegner

Sitting quietly with myself

Beside a being I came

To be lonely with

Esconced in a sickening quiet

Of my own breathing

My heart pounded

An aching permeated

The core of me

I Yearned to touch and hold

My body screamed to feel passion and heat

A tender caress

A glancing swipe of a finger

A wondrous hand on my thigh

A gesture of real love

In this place

I was barren

How?

Did I decide to be there?

Did I choose that path?

Did I somehow deserve

Those moments consumed with

Torturous, frozen emptiness?

A void

Filled with words

Spoken and thought

Of daily routines

Of rehashed memories

Of tedious factual redunduncy

And anything

Yes, anything to fill the space

Between the throbbing beats of my heart

My soul screamed "NO..."

While I quietly sat and thought and yearned

For life

But then...

I accepted, hesitated, and dreamed of

Someone

Someone who might walk through a door

Someone who might smile and look deeply into me

Someone who felt what I did

Someone to love me

Really love me

But then...

My eyes lost focus

My mind dulled

My heart slowed

My senses faded

And I was there, in that room again

With her

Barren

Copyright © Bob Stegner 2008

Image of Door:

Trish Steel [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

ROOMS Update and Poetry

ROOMS

by Bob Stegner

(Trish Steele)

ROOMS UPDATE
I'm continuing to look for novel contests to enter, possible publishing companies to send the book to and looking for an agent.  I'm also gathering other ideas for my next novel and my next young adult short fantasy.  It's a busy time.

Below are four links.  Three of these will give you an idea of what Rooms is about.

Rooms' Teaser

Rooms' Excerpt: Chapters 1-2

Rooms' Chapter Titles

Author's Email


POETRY

Glass of Wine

A base

A stem

A goblet

Clear, clean, and precise

Soft liquids poured

Moving slowly and passionately

Eddying inside and around

The stem caressed precisely

Swirling the liquid grape

While nosing and gazing

The goblet tips

Drops coalesce and cascade

Expanding in ways unknown

Sweet, dry, earthy tones

Shared with fruits and wooden barrels

Of red and white varieties

Of cultures and passionate people around the world

Sit back, enjoy, dream and wonder

What origins

What climate

What soil

What hand

Formed

A glass of wine

Shared in a moment

Of time

Copyright © Bob Stegner 2006

Image of Door:

Trish Steel [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons