This morning started with a broken water hose, or something leaking from our van’s radiator I needed to get chicken food and filled 20 milk cartons with water and proceeded to the repair shop. Naturally, I received a few ‘fingers’ when I had to stop to refill the radiator. People are not used anymore to seeing someone trying to get a disabled car from point A to point B without the help of a tow truck. They use sign language to let you know what they think of your efforts.
Didn’t bother me any, but it did cost me two hours.
So, now I am faced with the task of bridging the main character from my first book, Karl, into the second book. Actually, it should be simple because I am writing about the following events from memory. But it is a bit challenging because I also have to introduce two new characters.
You would think that this is easy, wouldn’t you? Well, not exactly. One of the new characters appears right away. But the motives for his actions, as well as his personal reasons for interacting with Karl, (while important) are a bit difficult to describe. I might pull it off, by writing in chronological order, but, I am not exactly sure about it.
It was confusing enough at the time when the events unfolded. So far I am at chapter 2, but, I rewrote already chapter 1 several times and now Chapter 2 is out of kilter……….
What happens to Karl after he says he will kill a man in order to get his father freed? It is very difficult to get to the end of a book and still have questions. I have read LOYAL TO A DEGREE and TRUST TO A DEGREE. Please tell me what happens to Karl.
Dianne Bumgarner
Hello Dianne,
Thank you for reading my books and I do understand your question.
Karl didn’t need to kill anyone. Due to the mental pressure from Godunov (who was an experienced interrogation officer …and Karl was only 14 years old) Karl had thought that the Kommissar was using his father as a tool to get his way. Not so. Godunov had searched for Karl’s father to reward Karl for his previous actions. In addition Godunov helped Karl and his father to get out of the Soviet occupied territory. My future books will phase out Karl (because his life became uneventful) and will continue with Harold who worked in different capacities with Godunov.
For your further and personal information, Dianne, Harold lived a very interesting life. Not only in the service of Godunov but also as an extremely intelligent multilingual international trader, business man and finally as a Cornell in the Russian air force. He also stuck to his initial motivation and avenged his mother. We stayed friends until his dead a few years ago. My future books are based upon the notes he left me.
Again, Dianne, thank you for reading my books. In the future I will try to avoid “cliff hangers.”
Take good care,
Horst