Hoing and Hileman

Posted By dave on March 26, 2012

Well, Roger and I are at it again. After a couple of less-than-successful attempts to write another novel, we decided to finish a musical called Venice that we started back in the Dark Ages or so. In that version — which was horrible, BTW — we had a script, as well as lyrics for most of the songs, but we had written very little of the music for it — and what we did have wasn’t written down. Considering Venice is a musical, I figured the music was sort of important. So last fall I decided I wanted to write music for the lyrics that didn’t have any, and transcribe the music for those that did, just so I could say I finished the damn play. Then when the tantalizing possibility of getting the play produced presented itself, I decided to rewrite the whole thing, book, lyrics, and music. So I threw out the old script and started over. This involved writing several new songs that were never in the original, as well as tossing out some of the old ones. I finished the first draft of the script a week or so ago, and last night I completed the final song. Much revising left to do, but at least I have a full script to work with now.

And Roger? He wrote music for a couple of the songs, but now his real work begins: the unenviable task of writing orchestral arrangements for all of the songs. I can write songs and — maybe — handle very simple orchestral arrangements, but for anything complicated, fuggedaboudit. That’s where Roger’s expertise comes in. He’s a very talented performing musician and very knowledgable about music theory.

As a teaser, here are the song titles, in the order they appear in the play:

Minding Our Own Business
Images of Home
I’m Napoleon
Imagined Boy
Living in the Streets
Moving
Captain of the Guard
Your Eyes
Child of Woe
Just Enough Hate
Love Is Fine
Let the Storm Flow Around Us
Living in the Clouds
Revere’s Lament
Masks of Venice (You Cannot Hide)
The Stone Boat
Across the Water
In the Flesh

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Posted By dave on September 14, 2011

Hi, Dave here:

For those of you who are interested in antiquarian books, here’s a list of my collection of books printed between 1556-1899 as it now stands. My collection was once more glorious than it is now, with at least one book from every year since 1577, and about 35 nonconsecutive years older than that, including my pride and joy, a book printed in 1474 — only 19 years after printing was invented. Sadly, I had to sell off the best of my collection, but what’s left still isn’t too bad: at least one book from every year since 1690, and a few older than that. They’re listed here in chronological order according to year of publication, but I also keep lists in alphabetical order by author and title. I have another bajillion or so printed in the 20th century, not counting paperbacks, of which I have about a bajillion more.

The format is date of publication, author’s last name, book title. An asterisk after the date indicates that no author was given in the book. Multi-volume sets are listed together on the same line unless the individual volumes were printed in different years, or if the set is incomplete, with nonconsecutive volumes.

Enjoy!

1556, Cicero, Orationi di M.T. Ciceroni
1588, Coster, De Vita et Lautibus Deiparae Mariae Virginis
1597, Reusner, De Ivre Testamentorum …
1599, Bilson, The Effect of Certaine Sermons …
1642, Cicero, Epistolarum ad Familiares
1679, *, Tractatus Commerciorum & Navigationum
1684, Butler, Hudibras
1687, Novellus, Christianae
1690, Overall, Bishop Overall’s Convocation Book
1691, Echard, The Most Compleat Compendium of Geography
1692, Marana, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, v.4-5
1693, Norris, Practical Discourses Upon Several Divine Subjects
1694, *, Eikon Basilike Deutera
1695, Orleans, Histoire Des Revolutions d Angleterre
1696, Fouquet, Les Oeuvres de Mr. Fouquet
1697, Bruyere, Les Caracteres de Theophraste, v.1
1698, Besongne, Le’ Tat de la France …
1699, *, Recueil de Plusieurs Pieses …
1700, *, Proceedings of the House of Commons…
1701, Arnold, Qudvaders of Woestyniers
1702, Pliny, Les Letters de Pline le Jeune
1703, Collier, Essays upon Several Moral Subjects
1704, Dupin, Table Universelle
1704, Plutarch, Plutarch’s Morals, v.1
1704, Plutarch, Plutarch’s Morals, v.4
1705, Echard, Terence’s Comedies
1706, Monmorel, Homelies
1707, Rians, Saintes Croix des Dames
1708, LeSage, The Devil Upon Two Sticks
1709, Butler, Hudibras
1710, Beveridge, Thesaurus Theologicus
1711, Addison & Steele, The Tatler: the Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff
1711, Addison & Steele, The Spectator, v.2
1711, Plautus, Comoediae In Duobus Voluminibus, v.1-2
1712, Blackmore, Creation, a Philosophical Poem
1712, Lindsay, Works … Newly Corrected
1713, Bourdaloue, Sermons de la Compagnie de Jesus
1713, Calamy, An Abridgement of Mr. Baxter’s History
1714, Bysshe, The British Parnassus
1714, Racine, Two Tragedies
1715, Crousaz, Reflexions sur L’Utility des Mathematiques
1715, Leslie, A Short and Easie Method with the Deists
1716, Dryden, The First & Second Parts of Miscellany Poems
1716, Plutarch, Plutarch’s Lives, v.1-5
1717, Bisse, The Beauty of Holiness
1717, Roscomon, Poems by the Earl of Roscomon
1718, Echard, Terence’s Comedies Made English
1719, Howell, The Ancient and Present State of England
1720, Butler, Hudibras
1720, Derham, Physico-Theology
1721, *, The Character of the Parliament
1722, Rowe, Lucan’s Pharsilia, v.2
1723, *, Continuation des Essais de Morale
1724, Steele, Biblioteque des Dames
1725, Hearne, Peter Langtost’s Chronicle
1725, Homer, Odyssey, v.3
1726, Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
1727, Waller, Poems Upon Several Occasions
1728, Otway, The Works of Mr. Otway
1729, Lucian, Dialogorum Selectorum Libri Duo
1730, Addison, The Works of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, v.1-4
1730, Heineccius, Elementa Philosophiae Rationalis et Moralis
1731, Ercolani, Maria …
1731, Various Authors, The English Theatre, v.3
1732, Butler, Posthumous Works
1733, Steele, Dramatick Works of the Late Sir Richard Steele
1734, Marana, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, v.1-3
1734, Marana, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, v.5-8
1734, Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
1735, Danis, Tractatus de Fide, Spe, et Charitate
1735, Walpole, Some Considerations Concerning Publick Funds
1736, Steele, The Dramatick Works of the Late Sir Richard Steele
1737, Manwaring, An Historical Account of Eminent Authors
1738, *, L’Annee Chretienne, Conenant Les Messes …
1739, Sheridan, The Satyres of Persius
1740, Emery, Nouveau Recueil … Secrets de Medecine, v.1-2
1741, Marana, Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, v.4
1742, *, Histoire Romaine
1742, Pope, The Dunciad
1743, Dryden, Original Poems and Translations …, v.1
1744, Waller, The Works of Edmund Waller
1745, Terence, Terence’s Comedies
1746, Bletterie, Vie de L’Empereur Julien
1746, Thomson, The Seasons
1747, Mall, The History of the Martyrs Epitomized, v.1
1747, Nazianze, Discours de St. Gregoire de Nazianze
1747, Schuberts, Frasual Bredigfen
1748, Bruckero, Miscellanea Historicae Philosophicae …
1748, Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptore, v.1
1749, Borromee, Directeur Dans Les Voies du Salut …
1750, Campbell, The Lives of Admirals and other Eminent British Seamen, v.3
1750, Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations, v.1
1751, Griffiths, The Monthly Review, v.4
1751, Wycherley, The Country Wife
1752, Rhyselli, Episcoposcopia Sviogothica
1752, Rutty, A Treatise Concerning Christian Discipline
1752, Saunders, The English Apollo
1753, Glover, Boadicea
1753, Moore, The Gamester
1754, Derham, Physico-Theology, v.2
1754, Van Swieten, Commentaries Upon the Aphorisms of Dr. Herman Boerhaave
1755, Addison & Steele, The Spectator, v.8
1755, Toldervy, Select Epitaphs
1756, Rowe, The Works of Nicholas Rowe, v.1-2
1757, Burn, The Justice of the Peace and The Parish Officer, v.1
1757, Swift, The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift
1758, *, Bible
1758, Smollett, A Complete History of England, v.4
1759, Butler, The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose …, v.1-2
1760, Farquhar, Twin Rivals
1760, Young, The Complaint
1761, Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations, v.2
1761, LeSage, Histoire de Gil Blas, v.2
1761, LeSage, Histoire de Gil Blas, v.4
1761, Stanhope, Paraphrase and Comment Upon the Epistles …, v.2
1762, Crispin, Opera Omni quae Extant Interpretatione et Notis
1762, Griffiths, The Monthly Review, v.25
1763, Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, v.1-2
1764, Horace, Odes, Epodes, and Carmen Seculare, v.2
1764, Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, v.6
1765, Brooke, The History of Lady Jane Mandeville, v.1-2
1765, Olivet, Philippiques de Demosthene
1766, Addison & Steele, The Spectator, v.3
1766, Churchill, Poems
1766, Nepos, Excellentibus Viris Imperatorum
1767, *, Almanach des Muses
1767, Rousseau, Miscellaneous Works, v.2-5
1768, *, The Annual Register
1768, Collins, The Peerage of England, v.4
1769, Denham, Poems and Translations, with the Sophy
1769, Sterne, The Sermons of the Late Reverend Mr. Sterne, v.6
1770, Bickerstaffe, Tis Well It’s No Worse
1770, Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptore, v.2
1771, Ablincourt, Comments de Cesar
1771, Celesia, Almida
1772, Butler, Hudibras, v.1-2
1773, *, Cantiques Sacres Pour les Principales
1773, Griffiths, The Monthly Review, v.48
1773, Nepos, The Lives of the Excellent Commanders
1774, Stanhope, Letters Written by … Philip Stanhope, v.2
1774, Thomson, The Seasons
1775, Chatelaine, Sermons dur Divers …, v.1-2
1776, Akenside, The Poems of Mark Akenside, v.1-2
1776, Gessner, The New Idylls …
1776, Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, v.2
1776, Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope, v.4
1777, Josephus, The Works of Flavius Josephus, v.1
1777, Tacitus, The Works of Tacitus, v.2
1777, Various Authors, Twenty-Four Plays
1778, Josephus, The Works of Flavius Josephus, v.2
1778, Milton, Paradise Lost, v.1
1778, Tacitus, Works of Tacitus, v.1
1779, *, The New Bath Guide
1779, Various Authors, The Works of the English Poets,v.10
1779, Various Authors, The Works of the English Poets, v.55
1780, Davies, Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, v.2
1780, Dodd, Comfort for the Afflicted
1781, *, Supplements a L’Histoire Philosophique
1781, *, Wahren Inspirations Gemeinschaften
1782, Mosheim, Ecclesiastical History
1782, Yorick, A Sentimental Journey Through Italy and France
1783, Cicero, Oevres de Ciceron
1784, Dodington, The Diary of the Late George Dodington
1784, Hervey, Theron and Aspasio
1785, Inchbald, Appearance Is Against Them
1785, Laurence , Criticisms on the Rolliad, Part I
1785, Milton, Paradise Regain’d, v.1-2
1786, Gray, The Poems of Mr. Gray
1786, Various Authors, An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces
1787, Griffiths, The Monthly Review, v.75
1787, Holcroft, Tales of the Castle
1788, *, Memoires Secrets, v.32
1788, Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, v.1
1789, *, Memoires Secrets, v.35
1789, Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
1789, Hervey, Works, v.6
1790, *, An Act of Parliament
1790, Laurence, Criticisms on the Rolliad, Part II
1790, Milton, Paradise Lost, v.2
1791, St. Pierre, Etudes de la Nature, v.1-4
1792, *, Browne’s Bible
1792, Eschenburg, Handbuch der Klassischen Literatur
1792, Euripides, Euripidis Tragoediae Drama Satyricum …
1793, *, The London Chronicle
1793, Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
1794, *, Considerations on the French War …
1794, DeFoe, Religious Courtship
1795, *, Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades
1795, Aikin, Letters From a Father to His Son
1795, Rousseau, Eloisa, v.1-3
1796, Delen, Samlade Arbeten
1796, Goudemetz, Historical Epochs of the French Revolution
1796, Sheridan, A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
1797, Blackmore, The Poetical Works of Sir R. Blackmore
1797, Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, v.1
1797, Otway & Moore, The Poetical Works of Thomas Otway and The Poetical Works of Edward Moore
1797, Pinkerton, The History of Scotland, v.1-2
1798, *, The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
1798, Blair, Essays on Rhetorick
1799, *, Almanach des Muses
1799, Cicero, The Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero, v.1-3
1799, Edwards, The History of the Works of Redemption
1799, Moore, Fables for the Female Sex
1800, Dodsley, The Economy of Human Life
1800, Goldsmith, The Grecian History
1801, *, Almanach des Muses
1801, LaFontaine, Smarre Romaner
1802, Melmoth, Great Importance of a Religious Life Considered
1803, *, Laws of the United States of America, v.4
1803, Blair, Abridgement of Lectures on Rhetoric
1804, Horace, Opera, Notis et Interpretatione …
1805, Shulthess, Domilien uber die Offenbarung St. Johannes
1806, *, Port Folio
1807, Rousseau, Letters on the Elements of Botany
1808, Milton, Poetical Works of John Milton
1809, Warburton, Letters From a Late Eminent Prelate
1810, Hume, History of England, v.3-6
1810, Hume, History of England, v.8
1811, *, Almanach des Muses
1812, Mason, Select Remains of the Reverend John Mason
1813, Virgil, Opera, Notis et Interpretatione …
1814, Logan, Poems
1815, *, Almanach des Muses
1815, Scott, Field of Waterloo
1816, de la Hogue, Journee du Chretien
1817, *, Bible
1817, *, Gazetteer of Scotland
1817, Byron, Corsair, Lara
1817, Byron, Ode to Napolean Buonaparte
1818, Byron, Prisoner of Chillon …
1818, Eastman, Masonick Melodies
1819, Ingraham, Essay on Crimes and Punishment
1819, Isaacs, Doctrine of Universal Restoration …
1820, Byron, Beppo, Mazeppa
1821, Byron, Sardanapalus
1821, Laurentee, L’Eloquent Politique
1822, Dobell, New Selection of Nearly 800 Evangelical Hymns
1823, Byron, Marino Faliero
1823, Dwight, Theology Explained and Defended, v.1-4
1824, Cohen, Helige Schrift
1824, Fielding, Works, v.1-12
1825, Roberts, Treatise on Fraudulent Conveyances
1825, Sales, Koran, v.1-2
1826, Terry, Diary
1826, Williston, Five Books of The History of Cornelius Tacitus
1827, *, Harriet and Her Cousin
1828, Pierpont, National Reader
1829, Opie, Illustrations of Lying
1830, Goldsmith, History of the Earth and Animated Nature, v.1
1831, Sullivan, Political Class Book
1832, Burns, Works of Robert Burns
1832, Hicks, Journal of the Life and Religious Labours …
1833, Gallaudet, History of Jonah
1834, *, Life of Johnson
1835, *, Testament Newydd
1835, *, Diseases of the Eye
1836, Clark, Walk About Zion
1837, *, Polyglot Bible
1838, Voltaire, Histoire de Charles XII
1839, Murray, Introduction to the English Reader
1840, Blake, Young Orator
1841, Goldsmith, Miscellaneous Works
1841, Potter, Euripides, v.3
1842, *, Laws of the State of Maine
1842, Talfourd, Critical and Miscellaneous Writings
1843, *, American Dictionary of the English Language
1843, Aubigne, History of the Great Reformation
1844, Olmsted, Compendium of Natural Philosophy
1845, Motte-Fouque, Undine
1846, Beckmann, History of Inventions, v.1
1846, Hall, Universalism Against Itself
1847, Ainsworth, Old Saint Paul’s
1848, Andrews, First Lessons in Latin
1848, Anthon, Virgil’s Aeneid
1849, Shakespeare, Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare
1850, Covel, Concise Dictionary of the Holy Bible
1850, Tupper, Proverbial philosophy
1851, DeQuincey, Miscellaneous Essays
1852, Fuller, Fresh Leaves from Western Woods
1853, *, Bible
1853, *, McGuffey’s Rhetorical Guide
1853, *, McGuffey’s Rhetorical Guide
1853, *, McGuffey’s Third Eclectic Reader
1853, Scott, Poetical Works
1854, Hervey, Lilly Among Flowers
1855, *, Diseases of Women and Children
1855, James, Ancient Regime, v.1
1856, Gurney, Observations
1857, Davies, Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry
1857, Ray, Intellectual Arithmetic
1857, Ray, Practical Arithmetic
1858, Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
1859, DeFoe, Robinson Crusoe
1860, *, American Dictionary of the English Language
1861, Hooker, Natural History
1862, Longfellow, Poems
1863, *, Woman and Her Saviour in Persia
1864, Flint, Life of Stephen A. Douglas
1865, *, Treatise on Mensuration
1865, Irving, Alhambra
1865, Raymond, Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln
1866, Homer, Iliad
1866, Pigot, Life of Man Symbolized
1866, Stoddard, American Intellectual Arithmetic
1867, Sanders, Union Fifth Reader
1868, Fleetwood, Life of Christ
1868, Harvey, Practical Grammar of the English Language
1868, Owen, Xenophon’s Anabasis
1869, Harkness, First Greek Reader
1869, Meunier, Great Hunting Grounds of the World
1869, Optic, Proud and Lazy
1870, *, Bible
1870, *, Book of Common Prayer
1870, Youmans, First Book of Botany
1871, Harte, Poems
1872, Upton, New Systems of Infantry Tactics
1873, *, Bible
1873, Monroe, Murphy’s Third Reader
1873, Niebur, History of Rome
1873, Sanders, Sixth Union Reader
1874, Clark, Normal Grammar
1874, Tyndall, Fragments of Science
1875, Parker, Paraclete
1875, Whittier, Complete Poetical Works
1876, Shakespeare, Complete Works
1877, *, Bible
1877, Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
1878, Jebb, Greek Literature
1879, Swinton, Outlines of World History
1879, von Treitsdyke, Deutcher Rampfe …
1880,*, Dictionary of the American Language
1880, Macauley, History of England, v.3
1880, Pattison, Milton
1880, Symonds, Greek Literature, v.1-2
1880, Trevelyan, Early History of Charles James Fox
1880, Wallace, Ben Hur
1881, Lossing, Eminent Americans
1882, Brooke, English Literature
1882, Huxley, Hume
1882, Jebb, Huxley
1883, *, Bible
1883, *, Brief History of Ancient … and Modern People
1883, *, Century Magazine
1884, Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, v.1
1884, Meredith, Lucile
1884, Thayer-Smith, Human Body and Its Health
1885, Poore, Life of U.S. Grant
1885, White, England Within and Without
1886, Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, v.2
1886, Bronte, Jane Eyre
1886, Carlyle, On the Choice of Books
1887, Davis, Camp-Fire Chats of the Civil War
1888, *, Harper’s Fourth Reader
1888, Howells, April Hopes
1888, Wallace, Fair God
1888, Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
1889, *, Century Magazine
1890, *, Bible
1890, Franklin, Autobiography
1890, Froude, Dissolution of the Monasteries
1890, Hartley, Life of General Francis Marion
1890, Hawthorne, Scarlett Letter
1890, Lamb, Tales of Shakespeare
1890, Lefebre-Laboulaye, Abdallah
1890, Murray, Abide in Christ
1890, Reid, Young Voyageurs
1890, Rollin, Ancient History, v.1/2
1890, Rollin, Ancient History, v.3/4
1890, Twain, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
1890, Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
1890, Whittier, Early Poems
1891, Byers, Happy Isles
1891, Church, Callias
1891, Locke, Demagogue
1892, Curtis, United States and Foreign Powers
1892, Howells, Imperative Duty
1892, Richards, Captain January
1893, *, Bible
1893, Jay, Rome and the Making of Modern Europe
1893, Marvel, Reveries of a Bachelor
1893, Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru, v.1-2
1894, Dickens, Tale of Two Cities
1894, Emerson, Essays
1894, Ingelow, Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow
1894, Mahaffey, Social Life in Greece
1894, Meredith, Egoist
1895, Frantishka, Verny Sluzebnik
1895, Longfellow, Evangeline
1895, Milne, Standard Arithmetic
1896, Adams, Growth of the French Nation
1896, Quesada, War in Cuba
1897, Baldwin, School Reading by Grades
1897, Baldwin, School Reading by Grades
1897, Campbell, New Franklin Second Reader
1897, Knapp, Feudal and Modern Japan, v.1-2
1897, Norris, Marietta’s Marriage
1897, Pellison, Roman Life in Pliny’s Time
1897, Redway, Natural Elementary Geography
1897, Redway, Natural Elementary Geography
1897, Whitman, Imperial Germany
1898, *, Ridpath Library of Universal Literature, v.1-10
1898, Frye, Elements of Geography
1898, Lathrop, Memories of Hawthorne
1898, Robinson, Little Puritan Rebel
1898, White, Pictorial History of Our War with Spain
1899, *, Library of Universal History, v.1-12
1899, *, Nations of the World, v.1-7
1899, Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, Kubla Kahn, and Christabel
1899, Cyr, Fifth Reader
1899, Froude, Julius Caesar
1899, Mulbach, Napolean and Blucher

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Posted By dave on August 23, 2011

Hi, Dave here. A colleague recently asked if there was a place he could go to see a list of all my publications. There wasn’t then, but there is now. I went one step further and listed all the prose I’ve written, published or otherwise.

One thing you’ll notice is that I’m not very prolific. I consider myself primarily a short story writer, but I don’t write often. I’ve finished a total of 60 stories in my life. That’s just over one a year. Some people average more than one short story a day — over 365 a year. In my defense, though, I am a chronic reviser. The first draft is the easy part. After that I revise and revise and revise and … well, you get the idea … until every word is as right as I can make it. So even if I’m not creating something new every day, I’m still writing. I also compose music, which takes away a lot of time that might be spent writing fiction.

Finally, I’ve dabbled in screenplays and musicals, and have attempted six novels. (However, only one of those is complete in itself. One of the six is the first of a two-book set, the second of which was never finished, and two others are part of a trilogy, of which I never finished the third book.) Although the novels I’ve written pad my total number of pages, keep in mind that I’ve been attempting to publish my work since my sophomore year of high school, which as of this writing was 39 years ago. Not a lot of output for 39 years!

INDIVIDUAL SHORT STORIES

1. The Second Coming of John Brown, 1972, 10 pages, unpublished
2. Necrophobia, 1973, 5, published only in a high school literature magazine
3. It Is Written, 1974, 10, unpublished
4. I Am the Last, 1974, 10, unpublished
5. The Most Important Discovery, 1974, 12, unpublished
6. The Window, 1975, 29, published in Frontier Tales (2011) & Tales of Earth (2012)
7. The Search, 1976, 106, unpublished
8. Corridors, 1976, 15, unpublished
9. Legacy, 1976, 34, unpublished
10. Amusement Park, 1977, 40, unpublished
11. Wotan’s Pass, 1977, 26, Realms of Fantasy (1998) & Tales of Earth (2012)
12. Television, 1977, 15, unpublished
13. The Chronicles of Essoby, 1978, 6, unpublished
14. Fusion, 1978, 9, unpublished
15. Franz, 1979, 6, The Coe Review (1985) & Tales of Earth (2012)
16. Ice, 1979, 10, Black & White (1981), The Coe Review (1984) & Tales of Earth (2012)
17. Till Human Voices Wake Us, 1981, 22, Short Story Journal (2005) & Tales of Earth (2012)
18. Patron Saint, 1982, 47, Jabberwocky (1990) & Tales of Earth (2012)
19. Image, 1983, 39, Dark Iowa Bright Iowa (1993)
20. Crossover, 1983, 28, Sinister Tales (2009) & Tales of Earth (2012)
21. Mirrors, 1984, 12, Jabberwocky (1991) & Tales of Earth (2012)
22. Tornado Hill, 1984,8, The Pacific Review (1896) & Tales of Earth (2012)
23. City of the Dreadful Night, 1984, 32, Fantasy and Science Fiction (1991) & Tales of Earth (2012)
24. Unreal City, 1985, 35, unpublished
25. Muskrat, 1985, 5, Crosscurrents (1988) & Tales of Earth (2012)
26. Mera, 1990, 44, unpublished
27. Allya, 1991, 5, unpublished
28. The Purring of Cats, 1991, 48, Interzone (2006) & Tales of Earth (2012)
29. Stigmata, 1992, 18, unpublished
30. How to Build a Watch, 1993, 17, unpublished
31. The Onely Shake-scene in a Countrey, 1995, 9, Century (1995) & Tales of Earth (2012)
32. The Hand of the Dead, 1996, 4, Flash Fiction Online (2008) & Tales of Earth (2012)
33. The Gaps in the Storm, 1996, 11, Short Story Journal (2000) & Tales of Earth (2012)
34. In This World, 1997, 14, Tales of Earth (2012)
35. City of Ice, 1998, 26, Voices of Arra (2011)
36. Kivam, 2003, 20, Interzone (2005) & Voices of Arra (2011)
37. The Healer, 2005, 20, Postscripts (2009) & Voices of Arra (2011)
38. Tashi’s Future Lover, 2005, 26, Hub Magazine (2010) & Voices of Arra (2011)
39. As the Crow Flies, 2005, 17, Hub Magazine (2007) & Voices of Arra (2011)
40. Servant of the Stone, 2005, 21, Postscripts (2009) & Voices of Arra (2011)
41. A Transitional Death, 2006, 35, Voices of Arra (2011)
42. Ne Cadant in Obscurum, 2007, 18, Postscripts (2010) & Tales of Earth (2012)
43. Souls of the Harvest, 2007, 2, Flash Fiction Online (2008) & Tales of Earth (2012)
44. Anniversary, 2007, 1, unpublished
45. Transaction, 2007, 1, unpublished
46. Career, 2007, 1, unpublished
47. Courtship, 2007, 1, Bird & Moon (2008)
48. Taxes, 2007, 1, unpublished
49. We. They., 2007, 6, Hub Magazine (2008) & Tales of Earth (2012)
50. The Things You Did Not See, 2008, 2, Perpetual Magazine (2009) & Tales of Earth (2012)
51. Second Light, 2008, 8, Bartleby Snopes Literary Magazine (2011) & Tales of Earth (2012)
52. The Dead-Line, 2008, 4, Frontier Tales (2011) & Tales of Earth (2012)
53. In This Sign, 2008, 31, The Criterion (2011) & Tales of Earth (2012)
54. Indications, 2008, 3, Flash Me Magazine (2010) & Tales of Earth (2012)
55. Plainview, Part One: The Shoe Store, 2009, 27, Crimewave (2010), Tales of Earth (2012) & The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012)
56. Plainview, Part Two: The Blood Cools, 2010, 13, Crimewave (2010), Tales of Earth (2012) & The Interrogator and Other Criminally Good Fiction (2012)
57. Through a Dark Age, 2008, 20, The Wapsipinicon Almanac (2009)
58. Chance (published under the title “Is, Not Mighta Been”), 2010, 2, Flash Fiction Online (2010) & Tales of Earth (2012)
59. In an Old Man’s Lap, 2010, 3, Flash Fiction Online (2011) & Tales of Earth (2012)
60. Mercy, 2011, 3, Frontier Tales (2012) & Tales of Earth (2012)

POETRY

1. Pet, 1985, 1, American Anthology of Poetry

Fortunately, I have lost most of the, ahem, “poetry” I’ve written. I have only published one poem. Happily for the world, I don’t write much poetry. I do write song lyrics, but I don’t consider lyrics to be poetry, even if they rhyme. I’ve addressed my music elsewhere in this blog.

NOVELS

1. A Choice of Ends, 1990, 517, unpublished
2. The End of Choices, 1990, unfinished (book two of a two-volume set), unpublished
3. The Myth of Bones: The Forests of the Night, 1998, 559, unpublished
4. The Myth of Bones: Too Long in a Strange Country, 1999, 448, unpublished
5. The Myth of Bones: Convergence, 2000, unfinished (book three of the trilogy), unpublished
6. Hammon Falls*, 2009, 358, All Things That Matter Press (2010)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

1. Voices of Arra*, 2011, 170, All Things That Matter Press (2011)
2. Tales of Earth, 2011, 419, forthcoming from All Things That Matter Press (2012)

SCREENPLAY

1. Crowmaster*, 2005, 123, unpublished

MUSICAL PLAYS

1. The Search*, 1977, about 75, unpublished
2. Venice*, 2012, 101, unpublished (but working on it!)

STAGE PLAYS

1. Muse, early 1980s, unfinished, unpublished
2. The Gaps in the Storm*, 2006, unfinished, unpublished

* With Roger

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Posted By roger on January 6, 2011

Our second book, Voices of Arra, has just been released.  Here’s what the cover looks like:

Voices of Arra is available on Amazon.com in both paperback and kindle format.  It will also be at the Barnes & Noble website in the near future.

Dave & Roger

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Posted By dave on November 29, 2010

Roger and I have two book signings/readings coming up early this year. We’ll be at University Book and Supply on Monday, January 24, from 6:00-7:00 p.m., and at the Hearst Center in Cedar Falls on Thursday, February 24, starting at 8:00 p.m. If you have a copy of Hammon Falls you’d like us to sign, come on down. If you don’t, there will be copies available for purchase at both venues.

We may also have copies of our latest book, a short story collection called Voices of Arra, which we hope will be released in January in time for our first reading.

–Dave

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Posted By roger on October 7, 2010

Love, loss, tragedy, betrayal, the horrors of war and much more you will find in Hammon Falls, an epic American saga spanning over 115 years from the 1890’s to the present day.  Roger Hileman wrote a screenplay based on his ancestors, Lester Hileman and Cora Felton and the birth of their child. Roger, together with long time friend, Dave Hoing, has turned the play into an impressive and memorable work of historical fiction.

We meet Margaret Hammon, widowed when her husband, G.W. Hammon, was killed in the Spanish-American war in 1898. G.W. was the most prominent citizen in Johnson’s Landing, a small Iowa town renamed Hammon Falls in his honor after the war. Margaret, now a wealthy recluse, raises their only child George alone. As a teenager in 1914, George had everything he could want except for a father and his mother’s affection. He takes a job below his social status as a laborer at a stable.

Cora Curtis is the only daughter of widower Orville “Luka” Curtis, a boxer, beer distributor, and gangster in the making. Luka, an established playboy, had his eye on Margaret’s money and property. But, the aloof and religious Margaret had no time for the vulgar Orville. It was only a matter of time before the offspring of the area’s two richest families would get together. The blossoming teen romance of George and Cora would end abruptly with a tragic birth and George running away to war torn Europe.

William Hammon would grow up with nothing more from his father than a battlefield photograph from 1915, taken at the height of the Great War in Belgium. George would stay in Europe for two decades after WWI, through the Spanish Flu pandemic, heartbreak and a battle with alcohol in the slums of Paris and Ireland.

The story unfolds out of sequence with chapters named after the main character, with the setting and year named such as Will, Waterton Iowa, 2009, or George Ypres Belgium 1915. Many storylines such as George’s short time with Cora, Luka’s rise in organized crime, and William as a teen, are explored to completion for a wonderful ending that leaves no loose ends. Plenty of conflict, surprises, and drama exist to keep the pages turning and I finished the book much sooner than expected.

Readers who haven’t previously been fans of historical fiction will be after reading this book.  Those who enjoy this genre are in for a treat as Hammon Falls delivers with an intriguing story, interesting and believable characters, and dialogue authentic to the mid-west. The authors have thoroughly researched the settings and represented time periods. The character development is amazing throughout and I could fully imagine even secondary characters. The prose has a lyrical quality that is a joy to read. At the end I found myself not ready to let this story go—wishing I could continue to immerse myself in just a few more pages.

Hammon Falls receives the highest recommendation from William Potter for Reader’s Choice Book Reviews.

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Posted By roger on June 23, 2010

Hammon Falls is now available at ATTM Press and at Amazon.com.

Order your copy today!

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Posted By admin on June 16, 2010

We are officially launched!  Our first novel, Hammon Falls, is now available at ATTM Press and soon at Amazon.com. Please check back here often for updates on our latest activities and projects!

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