Mendocino Sinsemilla: A Marijuana Adventure from the Pygmy Forest (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539594659)

The author is a long time resident of northern California and he finds inspiration part of the year on a remote Kona coffee plantation. His constant companions shadow the author day and night; two spoiled rotten many-nicknamed black Labradors, brother and sister raised from pups. Always lurking behind, with distain, are 3 cats, 2 prize winning silkie chickens and 2 top-knotted polish hens, that view the world with a cocked head and beady dinosaur-like eyes. His significant other can usually be found in a sewing room making quilts or teaching English at a nearby school. He is a University educated world traveler, computer mechanic, inventor and past owner of several businesses that he has sold. His writer's lair is stacked floor to nose-high, overflowing with surplus volumes and tomes. When asked how he crafts his ideas into stories, he replies, "Writing is such an unfair business. Even dreams are compromised. Calliope, the muse of writing, curls around those dreams and snuggles with a passion as she pours out the characters' lives and longings and most importantly, their dialog. The muse demands and declares it my responsibility to listen and then craft spectral images and thoughts into words. This malady is even more pronounced when awake as the technical aspects of the language and plot come into play. And, the characters are such awful storytellers, always too involved and too close to the action. They never get the story right. They're one-sided and expect me, whether asleep or awake, to sort it all out for them. Each sees one slice of the truth and are limited by their failure to account for other truths. While it might sound implausible for those without a muse perched on their shoulder like some pirate's parrot, this is how a story is born."