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Steve Patton

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in Bloomington, The United States

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http://www.ridgewriter.com

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Fiction, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction

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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.

In 4th and 5th grade, my teacher let me set up a table and sell my stories for 25 cents each (this would have been 1979-1980). Not only did I sell stories to the other kids who loved them, but some of my teachers would buy the stories as well...not to show support mind you, but they just enjoyed the stories.

In 5th or 6th grade I went to the young 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.

In 4th and 5th grade, my teacher let me set up a table and sell my stories for 25 cents each (this would have been 1979-1980). Not only did I sell stories to the other kids who loved them, but some of my teachers would buy the stories as well...not to show support mind you, but they just enjoyed the stories.

In 5th or 6th grade I went to the young Author's convention, with a story Ray Sting and Everything. It was a story about a secret agent (think of James Bond meets Mission Impossible) on a mission in the jungles of South America. A teacher had it bound for me (not published) and I believe it was 12 pages long.

I continued to write through middle school, and on into my freshman year of high school. During study hall I wrote a 350-page novel down the lines of J.R.R. Tolkien. At the end of the school year, I didn't know what to do with this massive folder (it was all hand-written on 8 1/2 x 11 paper) so I threw it in the trash on my last day of study hall - yes, I do regret that decision to this day. I remember the name of the novel, As the Crow Flies, and the concept, and wish to also reboot it to a more modern time as a published book down the road.

In my junior year in high school, I wrote a one-page story about an Arabian fighting a desert tribe, it was a brief encounter. It was the closest thing to a perfect paper I had ever written, with only one slight mistake found by my English teacher. She was constantly wanting me to write short stories for magazines of that nature, but I never followed through on it.

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.
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	The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Steve Patton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.92 avg rating — 479,840 ratings — published 1903 — 7510 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Sun Also Sets (The Roosevelt Series Book 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Band of Dogs: Foundations it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee by Steve Patton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), David Crockett it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The first video trailer for Napoleon and Elizabeth, my next book, has dropped on YouTube, link below. I struggled to classify this book, hence a delay in creating a video. Was it a thriller, kind of, sort of, not really. A mystery, well there is a mystery there, but it's not a mystery. Horror? Many will call it so, but it is not. Then I realized, it is a love story, not a romance, which is differe Read more of this blog post »

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Hmmm...I gave this book a lot of shelves; I must really like it. I do; I can't say it's one of "my favorites," but it is a good book. At the core, the story is about Buck, a large mixed breed dog stolen from his owner and wonderful home and thrust int ...more
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Depressing is all I can say. Maybe that is why you read these kinds of books as a kid, because you don't yet have the weight of the world on your shoulders and can more easily accept the outcome. It read like a 70s Disney movie, where everyone and ev ...more
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My wife had bought this book for my son, as many of the reviews start. I always pre-read any book before my son reads it. I wish I could separate the fact that it is a children's book from the fact that it is not written for adults. I always unfairly ...more
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I had finished my last book and had not purchased my next, or had my next book lined up. My wife has a large collection of books, some that she just bought because of their age, and had not read them yet - this was one of those books. It is written b ...more
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So, I will start with we are told who to like and who to dislike in this book - I did not like that, as I'd rather form my own opinions. Secondly, this is portrayed as a biography of the Booth brothers, but there are statements and facts that could n ...more
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This is, of course, a book I worked on; I did not write it. That credit goes to Charles Major. I greatly enjoy taking an old book and giving it new life by adding background information and colorful illustrations. I learn, and I hope the reader learn ...more
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This is the most comprehensive David Crockett autobiography I have found on the market. I have a similar book that was supposed to be a Public Domain reprint, yet they had left out much of the political struggle and a whole chapter near the end. This ...more
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“What does God know then...Chee..ma?" The tall doctor thought he had finally found his mark.

Still looking down, Chima set the glass aside and wiped his hands on a neat white apron that hung around his waist. He spoke with clarity as he placed both hands on the bar's edge - "God knows you aren't coming back from this safari alive.”
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“You listen here, I'll either find my boy with God, or without God. It makes no difference to me. But let me tell you one thing - I will find my boy...and alive! - Annie (Momma) Hodges”
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