Today I would like to welcome to Shelf Full of Books Andrew Joyce, author of Redemption and Molly
Lee. Redemption
is about the further adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and Molly Lee is his latest book. Andrew has kindly agreed to provide us with a
guest post today. So, without further ado, here’s Andrew.
My name is Andrew Joyce and I write books for a living.
Kathryn has been kind enough to allow me a little space on her blog to promote
my latest book, MOLLY
LEE. It’s averaging 4.9 stars on Amazon. It is also
available in paperback. Please check it out. 
I would love to tell you all
about it, but instead, I have to turn the writing duties over to my dog whose
name is Danny. You see, he can be pretty insistent at times. We recently had
some excitement in our lives and he can’t wait to tell you about it. For what
it’s worth, this is a true story. And when you are finished reading it, please
click on the link to my book and check it out. Danny is not the only genius in
our household.
Danny
and the Three Monsters
Hello dog fans, it is I, Danny the Dog!
I haven’t been writing much lately because I’ve been helping my human, whose
name is Andrew, look after three Labrador retrievers. What a nightmare! There
is Chloe, who is fourteen months old, and then there is Beau and Hank. They are
both four months old and they are holy terrors. They live on a boat down at the
end of the dock. Their human was going out of town and he asked my human to
look after them and Andrew, being the idiot that he is, said yes.
First of all, I want to say to Jeff,
the human that lives with the three monsters, don’t ever leave them in Andrew’s
care again. I wouldn’t trust him to look after a taco, much less three dogs.
The trouble started right away. Jeff
had two crates (humans call them crates; I call them cages) for Beau and Hank
because, as I’ve said, they are holy terrors. Andrew went over to take them for
their first walk after Jeff left, and of course, he has to take me along to
help out. Anyway, Andrew gets them out of the crates and is getting them off
the boat when clumsy Hank falls into the water.
Let me paint the picture for you. It
was nighttime. It was dark. The water was dark and Hank is black. Andrew and I
could see nothing of Hank. We could only hear him splashing around. The dock is
about five feet above the water so Andrew couldn’t get him out by standing on
the dock. Being the genius that he is (just kidding), Andrew got on the
swim platform, which—for you landlubbers—is attached to the back of a boat and is
only a foot above the water.
Now this is where Andrew’s “genius”
comes into play. He took off his glasses and placed them on the transom so they
wouldn’t slip off while he was bending over to pull Hank out of the water. He
called to Hank. Hank swam over and Andrew got him onto the boat. Then Andrew
went to get his glasses and they were not there or anywhere else on the boat.
It looked as though Beau knocked them into the water because he had his paws up
in that general vicinity while he was watching Andrew rescue his brother
(they’re twins). All this in the first five minutes of Andrew looking after the
monsters. And it only got better, and by better, I mean worse. I had a ball
watching Andrew trying to cope for four days.
On to the next disaster, but first a
side note. For some reason Beau is enthralled with me. The damn dog wouldn’t
leave me alone. He put his snoot in my face, ran around me, bounced around me;
he was a royal pain in my rear end. Finally, I had to growl at him and give him
a little nip on his snoot to get some peace.
Now back to Andrew’s genius. We got the
dogs back on the boat without further mishaps. Andrew fed them and all was
well. But then Andrew decided not to put Hank and Beau in their crates. He felt
sorry for them being cooped up like that. Big mistake!
The next morning when we went to get
them, there was poop everywhere. The whole floor was covered in it. The babies
had gotten into the dog food bag, ripped it open and ate it all. Then they
pooped everywhere and walked in it. They got it on the couch, on the sliding
glass doors, on everything. I think even on the ceiling. Needless to say, after
spending two hours cleaning it all up, Andrew changed his mind about the
crates.
Last night we were hanging out. Andrew
was staring into space because he did not have his glasses and could not read a
book or see the computer screen. I was on the computer starting this story when
Chloe came onto our boat. She’s always coming here and stealing my water bowl!
To date, she has taken five. But she should have been locked up on her own
boat! Andrew got up, looked out, saw Jeff, and said, “Thank God! Thank God!”
I barked the same thing. Our days of taking care of the monsters were over.
Thank God!
P.S. This morning Jeff came over with
Andrew’s glasses. Beau had taken them and hidden them in his stash place.
Molly Lee
by Andrew Joyce
Publisher Andrew Joyce
Published: March 29, 2015
ASIN: B00VEEJ97G
Amazon Synopsis:
From the author of the best-selling novel, REDEMPTION: The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer comes MOLLY LEE.
Molly is about to set off on the adventure of a lifetime . . . of two lifetimes.
It’s 1861 and the Civil War has just started. Molly is an eighteen-year-old girl living on her family’s farm in Virginia when two deserters from the Southern Cause enter her life. One of them—a twenty-four-year-old Huck Finn—ends up saving her virtue, if not her life.
Molly is so enamored with Huck, she wants to run away with him. But Huck has other plans and is gone the next morning before she awakens. Thus starts a sequence of events that leads Molly into adventure after adventure; most of them not so nice.
We follow the travails of Molly Lee, starting when she is eighteen and ending when she is fifty-six. Even then Life has one more surprise in store for her.
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About the Author:
Andrew Joyce left high school at seventeen to hitchhike throughout the US, Canada and Mexico. He wouldn't return from his journey until decades later when he decided to become a writer. Joyce has written three books, and a collection of almost one hundred forty short stories that is comprised of his hitching adventures called BEDTIME STORIES FOR GROWN-UPS. He lives on a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his dog, Danny. MOLLY LEE is a followup novel to the best-selling REDEMPTION: The Further Adventures of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer.
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