Tag Archive: Frank Hooper

Celebrating the Gone From These Woods Countdown

Today is August 17, 2009, and I’m back to counting down the days until August 25, the official publication date of my debut novel, GONE FROM THESE WOODS. Even though I haven’t posted a note about GFTW here (in my countdown series anyway) for the past few days while I was on vacation, I was…

George Langdale: An Inspiration for my Gone From These Woods Character, Frank Hooper

All of the characters in my debut novel, GONE FROM THESE WOODS, are fictional. But there are many “bits and pieces” of real human beings in most of them. Frank Hooper, the neighbor who lives on Hooper Gap Road, not far from where Daniel Sartain and his family live, is a good example. When I…