I’m really excited about this illustration of Number Seven. It’s part of the cover John Holliday is creating for my upcoming Ferguson’s Trip. Barry Lufkin keeps telling Ferguson to keep an eye on Number Seven for Les Renégats. Ferguson and Lufkin are playing Les Renégats in the last game of an unsuccessful season. The game takes place far from the Montreal Forum, but it’s still hockey night in Canada.
JODY'S GOT YOUR GIRL AND GONE
Trinity’s back. There’s one upcoming Tucson novel. Then, back to basic. Basic Combat Training. Trinity’s doing security screenings on trainees, but of course nothing is as simple as that. Most people who have gone through basic training know all about Jody.
No More Mr. Nice Guy
When busted probation officer Ed Carney leaves his lawyer’s office a couple of days before Christmas, he realizes he’s got big problems. One of the problems is coming up with money for Joe Sawyer’s retainer. He goes to a local bar to have a beer and relax by shooting pool, but even that doesn’t work. Read about it in TRINITY THINKS TWICE. Available on Amazon as ebook or paperback.
On the jukebox in this scene is No More Mr. Nice Guy, by Phoenix’s own Alice Cooper.
At the Sign of the Cat
Lucky Hal Bailey. He’s getting to go to Tucson right at the start of the Tribe’s spring training, delivering a gold Mercury Cougar from the battleship gray skies over Cleveland to the bright springtime of Tucson’s “Sunshine Factory.” Hal’s gotten the assignment while he’s getting his styled at the Tender Trap Men’s Salon near Cedar on the east side. He’s seen the commercials with Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Tiegs, so he already has a favorable impression of the car he will drive across the country.
All in the upcoming fourth TRINITY novel.
Boogie Child. Barry Lufkin's Disco Life
Barry Lufkin is the goalie on Thane Ferguson’s semipro hockey team. Barry likes to keep up with things. He wears a Gerry Cheevers mask complete with stitches while minding the nets and he listens to the Bee Gee’s BOOGIE CHILD on the 8-track tape deck of his nearly new Monte Carlo. Of course he’d had to shim a pack of paper matches in the deck to keep BOOGIE CHILD separate from YOU SHOULD BE DANCING. With his recently permed hair and his taste for Johnny Walker Red, Barry models himself after “Broadway Joe” Namath.
All in FERGUSON’S TRIP
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Forrest Canyon's Sho-Bud and Tammy's D-I-V-O-R-C-E
For a small character, there’s a lot to say about Forrest Canyon. One of the other characters says Forrest’s name (the spelling is intentional, by the way) sounds like the name of a “comic book hero.” Forrest gets a gig simply by playing the first steel guitar lick from Tammy Wynette’s D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Of course, Forrest can play a lot more than just that on his double-necked Sho-Bud steel guitar.
Ghostwriters in the Sky
Closing in on the end of another novel. Like to get it published soon, but there’s one in front of it. Anyway, I’m at the part where I’m cutting out hunks of real estate (already consolidated characters) and have to get serious about the title. Pretty sure I will use the word NEON. Consulting the Ghostwriters on this one.
Update - 3/15/20 Ghostwriters say “nope” to neon.
Ghostwriters
Tom Thomson's Canoe
This small painting of Tom Thomson’s canoe went to a new home today. I like painting canoes, and I like the work of Tom Thomson and his compatriots in Canada’s Group of Seven. It’s worth a trip to the museums in Toronto and Ottawa to see his work.
Tom Thomson 1877-1915
Forrest Canyon
Forrest Canyon is a character in my next book, DIM LIGHTS THICK SMOKE. In Forrest’s mind, he’s the best steel guitar player not living in Nashville. There are a number of complicated reasons why he doesn’t live there anymore, and instead travels from small town to small town, living out of his Pontiac. Forrest claims to have once had a few beers with Ernest Tubb. He needs to be careful, because there’s some trouble about to happen at the Ten High Saloon in Holbrook, Arizona.
DIM LIGHTS THICK SMOKE.
Coming soon.
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Ernest Tubbs