RICHARD
CORWIN
Midnight Gates is "Best Books Award Finalist in the category of Fiction & Literature: Short Stories"
Click to hear Richard interviewed by Neal Steele on Talk Radio XTRA 99.1FM
Midnight Gates is a collection of short stories with unusual, surprising and thought provoking conclusions stimulated by odd news and social events, dreams, private or public philosophies, friends and strange thoughts that often drift into my own reflections of past and very personal events.
Some stories have been inspired by other writers who offer a challenge to complete an entertaining short story, to be read before writers groups each month, and later re-written for publication. Each story follows its own path without influence from the others and is different with respect to content and direction. Each has its own personality.
To read an excerpt from the book, click the Book Jacket.
Midnight Gates is now available from XLibris Press, a strategic partner of Random House Ventures. It can also be purchased at the following on-line bookstores: Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Books-a-Million . Simply click your preferred vendor to order.
Book signings are scheduled for fall 2007
at Books-a-Million, Barnes and Noble, Aromas Restaurant on Prince George St. and
the Saturday Farmer’s Market; all in Williamsburg. Midnight Gates and its author
will also be available at the Book Expo being held at the Williamsburg Library
(James City County Branch) on October 20th.
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ENDORSEMENTS of MIDNIGHT GATES "Richard, has an interesting, compelling, entertaining and creative
way of provoking the reader to pause and think about the unusual endings
to his stories. His short stories are entertaining and a must read." --
Glenn Yarbrough, folk singer, musician and song
writer Richard Corwin's anthology of stories in * Midnight Gates' will entertain you and. leave your mind spinning at the end. I wonder if he, like Stephen King, sleeps with the lights on at night." -- Richard Bailey, Newsletter Editor, Chesapeake Bay Writers.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Corwin's creative achievements map like a meandering stream in an unconventional flood plain of personal consciousness. He was writer and managing editor for, Caribe News and Reviews, Art Director for Prout Films and Shamrock Film Studios in Orlando, Florida. Credits include, "The Story of Kissimmee," a promotional film for the City of Kissimmee and Disney World, Co-author of, "Through a Lighthouse Window," with folk singer and song writer, Glenn Yarbrough, and co-author of internet ventures with Gail "Delta" Collins who wrote lyrics for Eric Clapton and the '60's rock groups of Cream and Mountain. His writings appear in "In Good Company," a collection of short stories by Live Wire Press, and short stories for the El Ojo del Lago magazine in Chapala, Mexico. Corwin's next book is scheduled to appear sometime late fall or early winter and is tentatively entitled Caribbean Bones. It chronicles his adventures while living in the Caribbean for almost ten years during the 60’s and early 70’s. Highlights are tales of his involvement in; "not-for-profit treasure hunting, insurance fraud (sinking yachts for profit), contract assassinations in South America, sailing and diving adventures, smuggling drugs and gem stones, a few rock stars ("I fell for Mama Cass at Creques Alley"), local Obeah legends such as the Cow-foot woman and other tales of life on an island when life was genuinely good; simple in its lack of complexities and inhibitions. |