Wordsprings

Now I know what a blogsite is for — at least for us ordinary people.  It is a place to continually apologise for not posting anything.  Oh, we can make excuses, of course, and those can be interesting in themselves.  But golly!  Some of those bloggers out there toss off essays and link up to other peoples essays as though they were getting paid for it.

Oh well.  The Summer Hereditas is all put together.  In a work marathon that has left me still rather dazed, and some of the writers more than dazed, we got it all assembled and the layout done.  Now  to await the birth of the baby — the beautiful print issue with our first ever color cover.

And here I would like to post in advance one of the book reviews included.  I put it here because it’s a book for young readers, a mystery story.  It’s nice to see someone else filling the need for Catholic books.

<Bank Robbery
Volume 1 in the Spencer Family Mystery Series
Michael J Rayes

Rafka Press
PO Box 8507
Surprise, AZ 85374-0125

Mystery thriller, BANK ROBBERY begins a new series of Catholic adventure stories for young readers.  In this, Michael Rayes’ first book, we meet two young sleuths, Tom Spencer and his friend Rick Kline, along with Tom’s detective father — and his uncle, the local parish priest.  All of them pitch in to solve this mystery.
In clear, simple language, BANK ROBBERY enthralls, teaches and even edifies, readers from about fourth through eighth grades.  The crooks are mean, the police are competent, the parents are sensible and firm.  The boys – well they are real boys.  They are impulsive, brave and scared at the same time, resourceful and not always inclined to think ahead.  But despite a few mishaps, the case is solved, the villains caught and at least one soul brought back to the Faith thanks to the efforts of Uncle Father Paul Spencer who is a bit impulsive himself.
An unusually good first novel.  Hopefully Mr. Rayes is already working on the next one.>