This blog will display my published manuscripts, poems and books. Photographs may be added later, of what may have inspired the stories/ideas.
Friday, December 31, 2021
Monday, December 20, 2021
Darcy Patterson and Rich Davis Latest Book
I have known Darcy for several years for she has spoke at our library several times and Rich (illustrator) has been once. I knew Rich at Siloam Springs where I lived before Mountain Home, AR.
Saturday, December 4, 2021
Heroes Beneath the Waves Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
I am a lifetime member of .the World War II Veterans Wives and USSVI Wives and I am the author of this book. A book for preteens and up. Heroes Beneath the Waves is about teenage boys who left farms, small towns, and inner cities to defend the United States and democracy worldwide. Signing up for United States Navy submarine duty was an adventure of a lifetime during the early 1940s. Dreams of torpedoing Japanese and German ships and subs consumed their thoughts. Those who returned home as young men were older and wiser. Heroes Beneath the Waves was written to honor these men—gallant heroes—who served and are serving today on submarines. The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea. By Mary Nida Smith wife of CPO Melvin T. Smith.