Bring Me Back Home

Bring Me Back Home by D. R. Thatcher

➤BOOK SUMMARY (SHORT)

Having recently retired and experiencing introspective thoughts about his life and youthful days growing up in southern Iowa on a farm in the 1950s and 1960s, Douglas starts a journey through those formative years discovering how it shaped him for the life he would lead. In the process he answers the question, can you really go back home?

➤BOOK SUMMARY (LONG)

Douglas Thatcher is recently retired with a loving wife and grown children. Adjusting to a different pace of life, he yearns to reconnect with his childhood memories. His Mom, Dad, and only brother have passed away leaving a lingering sense of regret and the realization that maybe life’s priorities should have been different.

In his retrospective memoir, Douglas reflects on the experiences he had growing up on a farm in Wayne County, Iowa during the 1950s and 1960s against a backdrop of change.

Bring Me Back Home is a story about a man’s journey as he rediscovers his roots and learns how they have transformed him into what he is today. It is a story of a family and of friends made along the way who will never be forgotten and the answer to the question, can you actually go back home?

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➤SELL SHEET

  • Title: Bring Me Back Home

  • Author: D. R. Thatcher

  • Genre: Memoir / Price: ebook - $3.99, paperback - $16.99 / # of pages: 298

  • ISBN Print: 978-0-9996291-0-9

  • ISBN Ebook: 978-0-9996291-1-6

  • Publication date: 2018

  • Formats available: Print, Ebook

  • Available on: Amazon, Google Play, Ibooks, Kindle, Kobo, Nook

➤BIO (SHORT)

Married shortly after college he spent over forty years in manufacturing engineering related positions while working in various locations. D. R. Thatcher has three children and eight grandchildren and currently resides near Louisville, Kentucky.

➤BIO (LONG)

D. R. Thatcher has spent his career in manufacturing working in Iowa, Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Ohio. After retirement, he decided to enter into a new career filled with possibilities

D. R. Thatcher has been married for 43 years and has three children and eight grandchildren and currently resides near Louisville, Kentucky.

➤PERSONAL PHOTOS

 

➤SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?

Like most people, I think I have always toyed with the idea of writing, but never had the opportunity to actually try until I retired. I remember as a young teenager when I was in summer camp one of the boys in our cabin said he wanted to be a writer and was working on his first manuscript. He said he felt everyone has at least one book in them—and I think he had excellent insight.

2. How long does it take you to write a book?

I can only tell you based on this first book. The actual writing was about a year while the editing and preparing for the book launch was about another year.

3. What is your work schedule like when you're writing?

It depends. I prefer starting around 10:00 A.M. and working until about 2:00 P.M. At times I will pick up work again at 7:00 P.M. for a few more hours. I don’t work strict hours as I like to keep them a little more fluid.

4. What would you say is your interesting writing quirk?

I start out by grouping bullet points of information for a chapter rather than using a more formal outline. From the bullet points, I add notes and comments and later go back to develop my story.

5. How do books get published?

Since I am an independent author, I can say with a lot of hard work. The most difficult being the book launch since it involves so much planning, communication to establish the launch team which is the vehicle for success in today’s independent publishing world.

6. Where do you get your information or ideas for your books?

The idea for my first book was simply to write about something that I knew about. My next books are a series of historical fiction based in Kentucky during the post-civil war years. I have called Kentucky my home for almost three decades because I have an infinity for Kentucky’s history and people.

7. When did you write your first book and how old were you?

I started writing just a few years ago at the young tender age of 62.

8. What do you like to do when you're not writing?

I like the out of doors such as hiking, fishing, and hunting. Archery is therapeutic for me providing a lot of pleasure. I also enjoy attending state fairs as they are somewhat timeless in nature.

9. What does your family think of your writing?

Not sure, but I think they are mildly intrigued.

10. What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?

I learned that the writing is the most pleasurable with the editing being the most aggravating as it seems to never end.

11. What do you think makes a good story?

A plot that as a writer you can relate to and absorb yourself in each of the characters to bring out the emotion in the story.

12. As a child, what did you want to do when you grew up?

I wanted to be so many things that I could not imagine just doing one thing all of my life. I remember dreaming of being an astronomer as well as a research scientist, but I never pursued either.