Afterword, Extras and Free Material
The Afterword to EDGE OF REDFISH LAKE is available only on this site. I’ve also included Chapter One and a couple of unpublished chapters that got edited out of the final manuscript. All are provided to you for free, in appreciation for signing up for my list, as PDF’s, delivered via email. Enjoy the reads! (Delivery issues? Check your Junk folder.)
Chapter 1 - The Turn
June 3rd was the Turn in 1988 but hardly anyone knew it. After all, that Friday in Western Washington seemed so—ordinary. But if one had paused and consciously attuned, they might have sensed something unnerving, a hint of uncertainty, a low-lingering moon, a subtle moment of change rooted in waterways all along the Pacific coast. For on that day, deep in the water, an annual migration was triggered. And in an instant, aimless journey pivoted to a determined obligation to get home…
Chapter 7 - The Agulowak (Alaska Sporting Journal, June 2020)
Tragic news travels fast in remote Alaska villages, sweeping from dwelling-to-dwelling, camp-to-camp like a fever, leaving no one unaffected. Before breakfast could even be served everyone within fifty miles knew two Native teens had drowned and one of their bodies had not yet been recovered…
Unpublished Chapters
In my first version of EDGE OF REDFISH LAKE, Julian died from Lev’s gunshots, and it was Boone and Josie who hunted Lev down, years later, at Redfish Lake. I felt that my original ending best personified/ exemplified the actual plight of wild salmon. But Donna, my literary agent, along with screenplay judges at Nichols and Page all hated it, independently and unanimously saying: “If revenge is to be taken, it must be Julian’s to take.”
And so, after much consideration, I did a substantial rewrite, wiping out nearly 4,000 words of the original manuscript, totally revising the screenplay, and virtually eliminating my intended significance of two characters I really liked – Boone and Josie. Below is some of that deleted material.
Blood Brothers - Julian and Boone
Julian and Boone were more than brothers. They were blood brothers. His mind drifted to when he first met Boone Davis four years earlier. Like so many things do, their deep friendship all started with a simple exchange over a beer, as they waited for a pool table at the bar…
The Story of Josie Vance
Josie Vance was an ambitious and compassionate small-town girl who for the past three years had forgotten how to laugh. Ever since her father divorced her mother and left them one day without saying why, her emotions had been unpredictable and intense. She wasn’t herself anymore…
Afterword
Every autumn the Lemhi Shoshone tribe of central Idaho gathers at Redfish Lake to welcome back the returning Sockeye. Just like their ancestors, who through the centuries whispered it around ancient campfires, they recite their own local, tribal version of the Legend of Old Man Autumn…
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