Chapter 31
My eight-year old grandson had been playing baseball all summer and Grandma and I had attended most of the games.
It was the next to last game of the season and Blake's team was playing for the championship.
During the warm-up drills, Blake lost a high fly ball in the sun and wound up catching it with his forehead.
As he lay on the ground stunned and bleeding, one of his teammates quipped, "Wow! Cool! You're grandpa is an author. Maybe he can write a story about this."
I hadn't planned on writing any more Rainbow Road stories for awhile, but this kid had thrown down the gauntlet and my creative juices began to flow.
The next day, I started the fifth volume in the series, Sports Heroes of Rainbow Road.
One of the things about my writing that is so special, is that I get to share the process with my wife.
I let her read each chapter after it's finished and often she has conceptual suggestions that make the story even better, and she creates the covers for all the books.
After my work is finished, she spends hours editing for all the missed commas and misplaced quotation marks. It's quite a job.
As the series developed, we added more and more illustrations. After all, "a picture is worth a thousand words".
We spent hours on dreamstime.com together, purchasing the rights to dozens of illustrations and even went back to the original four volumes of the series, added more pictures and republished. The process is so simple with Createspace.
Sports Heroes Of Rainbow Road turned out to be my favorite of the series and after it was finished, I couldn't shut down the old imagination.
Soon, with fall approaching, volume number six, Ghosts And Goblins Of Rainbow Road, began to form in my mind.
By this time the kids had three super powers each, and the opportunities to use them were endless.
So far in the series, Rainbow Road had transported them to different cities in the U.S. and even to Maui, Hawaii, so in Ghosts And Goblins, Rainbow Road took them back in time to the year 1692, and with their super powers, they were able to change the course of history. How cool is that?
I thought that maybe after Ghosts And Goblins, I would be finished, but how can you have a Halloween story and not have a Christmas story?
In Christmas Crooks Of Rainbow Road, evil thieves steal Blake's gold coin that bestows the super power of Shape-Shifting, kidnap Santa, assume his identity and threaten to destroy Christmas for the entire world.
Blake and Breonna are, of course, up to the task and in this North Pole adventure, save Santa and Christmas.
There are now seven volumes in the Rainbow Road series.
Done! Finished! No more Rainbow Road stories for awhile.
I'll have a couple of months to market the new children's chapter book series before the new Lady Justice Takes A C.R.A.P. and Lady Justice And The Lost Tapes are released by Tate Publishing.
School has started and my grandson has been taking the chapter books to school and selling them to his classmates. I give him a dollar for every book he sells.
Who says I don't have a distribution network?
When I started writing the first Lady Justice novel, I had no idea where it was going to take me, and here I am now with three mystery/comedy novels and seven children's chapter books.
Who wudda thunk?
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