Ryland Creek
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    • Book I: The Last Coon Hunter
    • Book II: An Exceptional Hound
    • Book III: The Legends of Ryland Creek
    • Book IV: The Master of Hounds
    • Book V: The Forest Ghost
    • Book VI: The Time of the Backroads
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  • An Ode to Painted Post
    • The Magical Realism of the Ryland Creek Saga
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    • A.V. Rogers
    • Dave Muffley
    • Dutch Van Alstin
    • Glenn Sapir
    • Judy Janowski
    • Michelle Pointis Burns
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  • Ryland Creek
  • About The Ryland Creek Novels
    • Book I: The Last Coon Hunter
    • Book II: An Exceptional Hound
    • Book III: The Legends of Ryland Creek
    • Book IV: The Master of Hounds
    • Book V: The Forest Ghost
    • Book VI: The Time of the Backroads
    • Projects in the Works
  • Buy the Ryland Creek Saga: Print Books
  • The Ryland Creek Saga in E-Book
  • The Ryland Creek Saga in Audiobook
  • Blog: In a place called Painted Post
  • Reader Reviews
  • Meet the Author
  • An Ode to Painted Post
    • The Magical Realism of the Ryland Creek Saga
  • Other authors
    • A.V. Rogers
    • Dave Muffley
    • Dutch Van Alstin
    • Glenn Sapir
    • Judy Janowski
    • Michelle Pointis Burns
  • Contact
Ryland Creek
The Time of the Backroads: A Ryland Creek Novel
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A Long Time Coming . . .
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     Yes, this story truly was a long time coming—years, in some respects—for the release of The Time of the Backroads: A Ryland Creek novel, the sixth book in the Ryland Creek saga.
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      Backroads—while still involving the forests of Upstate New York—is my first novel with a true “time slip" and introduces a new character, retired Game Warden Fulton Wainwright.

      But I’m not the first Upstate New Yorker to pen such a tale of time travel. While I tend to think of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, published in 1895, as the first time-travel novel, in truth, a resident of Elmira, NY (about 15 miles west of Painted Post), Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court six years earlier.

     Thus, Backroads offered a golden opportunity to mesh local history, legend, and (of course) hounds and chasing raccoon, all into one.


With Something of a Twist . . .

     Further, while the Ryland Creek novels deal with the enduring bond between hunter and hound, what about a story where the man and his dog begin essentially hating each other? (When telling my very good friend, Carey, about this concept over a year before the story was finished, I couldn’t stop laughing.)

       How does this tale's hunter-hound relationship end? Well, you’ll have to read the book.


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Fiddleheads in the springtime swamps of Painted Post
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