My Book Retreat

When Silas Jacobson's father dies, and he blames himself for his death, he heads to the Mississippi River to find himself. What he finds is a best friend, a couple of intriguing women, lots of gambling and tons of adventure. He also finds himself in the middle of the Underground Railroad.

Redemption on the River is Loren DeShon's debut novel, a work of historical fiction that takes us down the Mississippi in the mid-1800s. The historical aspects of the novel are fascinating. I learned so much about life along the Mississippi River, gambling at that time of history ~ I can't believe how much cheating went on ~ and the slave trade during that time. The slavery topic was covered from many angles, from the owners, to the traders, to the abolitionists.

The characters were the main focus of this novel. DeShon writes many different characters that really show the different types of people who lived during this time in history. I will admit, I never really liked the main characte…

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Non-Fiction Non-Memoir Reading Challenge. I hope you enjoyed it!

Link up below with your recap post, or post a comment telling me how you did with the challenge. I'll post my own recap later in the week. Everyone who linked up to the original sign up and also links up below will be entered into a giveaway of a $15 gift card to Amazon.

Good evening. Thank you for stopping by. I've been pretty quiet the past few days aside from an interview that I had planned ahead. I had plans to spend time this weekend catching up on reviews, but decided to spend as much time as possible with my kids this weekend. I did get some reading done last night, but I'm still pretty far behind.

Recent Reviews and Other Posts
Last week, I reviewed The Mongol Objective by David Sakmyster. It's a great continuation of the Morpheus Initiative series. I'm looking forward to reading the final book in the trilogy. I also published an interview with author R.C. Richter.

What I'm Reading
I've been reading Redemption on the River by Loren DeShon this week. I haven't been reading much so I have a lot more to read, but I'm enjoying it so far.

What C is Reading
C finally finished Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and all the work he had to do for his reading group at school. He's also reading The Battle of the Labyrin…

Today, I'd like to welcome author R.C. Richter to My Book Retreat. He is the author of the debut novel Crossing the Rubicon, which I'll be reviewing in January.

Q. Who or what inspired you to become an author?

I started out as a commercial TV producer who had a production company called Midnight HWY Film Co in the 1990’s.  At the time I was reading and writing a lot of screenplays, on projects I was hoping to produce into films.  The story of Crossing the Rubicon, got its start in the spring of 1990 when my three business partners and I went on a caving trip to the Chungo Caves in Central Alberta, Canada.  The story evolved from that trip. 

I first wanted to write it as a screenplay, but, the project was just too big.  So twenty two years later when the story once again came to me, I though the only way people will hear or read it was if I wrote a book.  So in the spring of 2012 I started to write my first book. 

Deep down I was hoping it could someday be turned into a motion pict…