A Band of Dogs: Foundations

by Steve Patton

Overview

Bobby Hodges - "All I want is a real dog to call my own." With those words, begins a memorable journey of a lifetime that will intertwine Bobby with individuals who will forever impact his life. On a rainy evening, Bobby decides to follow a black dog into the woods and soon is lost. His mother, Annie, is frantic. New to this area of Washington State, no one will help her. Then along comes Charlie Spitz, a Fish and Wildlife officer, and Deputy Sheriff Sheree Hopkins - "We WILL find your son" is their solemn promise. However, complications arise when a known criminal decides to take refuge in the same woods Bobby is lost in. It becomes a race to find Bobby, and who will be the first? Enter his Band of Dogs, stuffed animals acquired over all six years of his short lifetime - and the first to find Bobby may be the least anyone would have suspected. This is truly a journey about life, reality, and the decisions we make. You will laugh, you will cry, you will cheer...and then you will read it all over again.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940184664552
Publisher:	Mepho Press
Publication date:	02/02/2025
Series:	A Band of Dogs , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

I live on a ridge in Southern Indiana with my wife and son. We enjoy hunting and fishing and spending time together doing different events around the area. It is a great place to live, and it's a great place to write!

I have always written stories. My earliest memories will be in 2nd and 3rd grade in elementary school, but in first grade I won our reading contest. I loved books and I loved to write.

Although I did well in college English, and was encouraged by my professors, I only wrote to write good papers for grades. "Real Life" was setting in and the need to begin focusing on a career took the time away, as well did marriage and a job that paid the bills. I did little if any writing, at least that I recall, after my junior year in high school. But the yearn to write was always there burning like a strong flame that I just did not, for whatever reason, follow through on.

Fast forward some 30 years...yes, that is right, some 30 years. My son was 5 and he was home schooled - he had a strong engineering mind and even at age 5 the children's books just didn't fit him. Let's just say, he was not a "see spot run" kid. He wanted tangible, real, no fantasy stories with action, learning, and logical endings. Try to find that kind of book for a 5-year-old. So, I opened the laptop and began penning a chapter a night of what was originally just The Marsh Chronicles. My son loved it. As soon as it was finished, I followed with The Sun Also Sets and then a while later, The Message.

At the completion of The Message, I looked back and thought I had a good book in what was now called The Marsh Adventures: Of Times and Places. I submitted it to a publisher, they loved it, and as they say, the rest was history. One thing in all those 30 years - I would write down story concepts as they came to me, unique ideas and story lines out of the ordinary - so it behooves me to say, I have a lot of writing to do, as I would like to bring all these stories over the past 30 years to life.

I am, just a writer on the ridge.