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DAVID A. WOODBURY

David A. Woodbury grew up in Lima, Ohio, and Farmington, Maine. Since the early 1970s he has written newspaper columns, magazine articles, on-line articles and essays, short stories, novels, and non-fiction books. During the same period, between serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam non-war and serving as a Registered Maine Guide in fishing, hunting, and wilderness recreation, he worked for over two decades at Millinocket’s Great Northern Paper Company and a decade at Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln. Through DamnYankee.com, where his own works are published, he has also published the works of others and publicized the works of a few more. David and his wife, Beth, have been married for more than 50 years. Their children and grandchildren all live in Maine.

Not yet acquainted with his books?  Then consider this quick reference.

COLD MORNING SHADOW

Since there is nothing that connects his novels’ content in any way, there is no need to read them in any sequence.  He suggests, though, that you open the novel, Cold Morning Shadow first.  In western South Dakota, in the late 1960s, local teenage siblings in one family become acquainted with newly-arrived siblings in another family, and the four of them mature together into early adulthood.  The novel does not, though, fit the typical “coming-of-age” or “young adult” categories of fiction; it’s so much more than that.  Like many timeless classics it’s a long novel and could have been published as a two-volume set, as happened with Michener’s Texas, for example.

Some readers like fantasy and dystopian fiction and seem to enjoy an interminable story spanning a series of sequential novels.  Cold Morning Shadow is not that, but between the covers it is neatly divided into Book One – Lucky Diamond and This Guy, and Book Two – Half-soul in Tatters –– what some authors call a diptych, (where a three-book series is a trilogy).  It also stands as a family saga but told from viewpoint of one generation.  As its cover explains, it’s “a novel celebration of language, friendship, love, and hope” –– hope fulfilled.

There is much more about it at ColdMorningShadow.com.

FIRE, WIND & YESTERDAY

While Cold Morning Shadow, the third of my major works of fiction, is told in the third person (from the viewpoint of an outside observer), Fire, Wind & Yesterday, a historical novel set in the ninth century A.D., is a first-person account of a young couple’s encounter with a pair of Orthodox monastics who are among the first to penetrate the region north of Greece which we now know as Ukraine. Although none of my novels fit a “religious” category, some characters in each do evince faith in one way or another.  The Greeks in Fire, Wind & Yesterday are on a mission, based in Ukraine’s early history, to attend what has become known as the Khazar Polemic, a gathering of Jews, Muslims, and Christians at the invitation of the ruler of the Khazars near modern-day Volgograd.  The purpose of the Greek’s mission naturally affects the future of the couple whom the travelers befriend early in their journey.

THE ELEPHANT OF SURPRISE

David explains:
“The third big historical novel, that is, the one most recently released, is in fact the first one that I wrote – The Elephant of Surprise.  After working on it for ten years I laid it aside in 1982, considering it good only for practice.  But in 2023 I pulled the typewritten manuscript out of storage and realized that there was some good stuff in there.  I revived it, rewrote it, and it was published in 2024.

“While Cold Morning Shadow has its own web site,The Elephant of Surprise and Fire, Wind & Yesterday are both described in detail at DamnYankee.com and all three are available, reasonably priced, at Amazon.com in quality paperback and for Kindle, (free with Kindle Unlimited).  I hope this nudges you to look at them all and that you will choose one that will make me your new favorite author.”

In addition to these major works, David is the author of other works also described here.

Best wishes and happy reading!

=David=