My new NOVEL now on Amazon.com!

[yellerpup]

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Synopsis of "Weep"

In Cherokee legend it is said that at the beginning of the world people and animals spoke and understood each other’s languages. “Weep” is a story about a woman whose life changed after just such an encounter with a carriage horse in Central Park. Nikki Twig has spent most of her life hiding from her past. Nikki and her best friend, Belinda Carpenter always wished to be sisters when they were children. Upon the death of their friend and mentor, Wally, they learn that they are related to each other through a Cherokee bloodline, but are left to their own devices to determine exactly how. In a story set in present day Oklahoma, Nikki finds identity and belonging.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Weep-Vicki-Lynn-Mooney/dp/1463734107/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_1

[ixion]

1. congrats!

:toast:

[yellerpup]

8. Thanks!

We're psyched. :toast:

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Awesome! Congrats #2. :) n/t

[yellerpup]

9. Thanks!

I'm happy...also lucky to be married to a wonderful artist.

[valerief]

3. Congrats. Good luck with it. nt

[yellerpup]

10. I appreciate that, valerief!

:hi:

[peacebird]

4. Woot!!! Well done!

:yourock:

[yellerpup]

11. I'm a little long in the tooth for cartwheels...

but, I'm doing 'em!

[tabatha]

5. Awesome!

[yellerpup]

7. I'm excited!

About half of Chapter 4 from "Weep" has also been excerpted for another book published by the Cherokee Arts & Humanities Council. That book is called: "Cherokee Writers from the Flint Hills of Oklahoma: an Anthology." That makes me happy, too. Gotten great feedback from them on the whole book. Unsure and jittery at this point, but hopeful.

[tabatha]

14. I am listening to

"To You We Shall Return: Lessons About Our Planet from the Lakota"

on Audible. Hope your book makes it to Audible; I shall buy it if it does.

[yellerpup]

15. Yes, that is in the future.

One of the actors in "The Outlaw Play" offered to read it and set up the recording space for me. She's great, but I actually wouldn't mind reading it myself. We shall see.... Thanks for the input!

[graywarrior]

6. Awesome!

I am so happy for you!

[yellerpup]

12. Thank you.

It feels really good.

[graywarrior]

13. As a published writer (story in a mag) I know!

And having a book on Amazon totally rocks!

[yellerpup]

16. It totally does, graywarrior!

:yourock:

[Lucinda]

17. Congrats sweetie!

:)

[yellerpup]

18. Thanks, Lucinda!

Hoping for the best for both of us and also hope you are feeling good today. :hug:

[Lucinda]

19. It's a pretty good day for me.

Thanks for thinking of me.♥ Hope all is well with you and yours and that the year ends brilliantly for us both!

[yellerpup]

21. Hope it goes brilliantly for us both in a BIG way!

So far, so good anyway.

[Lucinda]

23. Me too!

We're both due. ♥

[yellerpup]

24. You rock, Lucinda!

Due. :yourock:

[flyingfysh]

20. I am trying to trace my own Cherokee ancestry

It is not easy. I found that at least two consecutive generations were orphaned, but I am still trying. Of course, I ordered the book immediately.

The Trail of Tears is one of the great tragedies of our history. Andrew Jackson, who caused it, does not deserve a place of honor on our currency. May he burn in Hell.

[yellerpup]

22. I find $20s to be exceptionally greasy currency myself.

Orphans. So many orphans were created over the years, but I'm glad they survived so you can be here. My gggrandfather was orphaned as well, but luckily his sister (I suspect half-sister given their ages) made sure he became educated. He was Tulsa's first barber. To be a tribal member, you need to look in the Dawes Rolls and the Cherokee Tribe is reaching out to help people who have been lost. If I can help, let me know. The procedure for enrollment is in the book (I didn't outline steps, but the basics are there). Good luck to you, flyingfysh! And thanks for ordering "Weep". I hope you enjoy it.

[flyingfysh]

27. am pursuing the Dawes Roll possibility

My grandmother was a very small child (and an orphan, adopted by a childless couple) when the Dawes Roll was assembled. I finally found her biological dad's birth name (he was also an orphan), and I am having a genealogist see if he or perhaps his parents (if they survived) were on the Dawes Roll. Or perhaps he had surviving grandparents on the roll. I just don't know yet.

In another branch of my family: one of my relatives was in Congress, and tried to stop the Indian Removal Act. He lost the political battle, and lost his seat in Congress as a result. He was later executed in Texas. Maybe you heard of him: Davy Crockett.

[yellerpup]

28. You are on the right track. The Dawes Rolls were open

from 1885 to May of 1907 in Indian Territory. You may also find him on the Guion-Miller Rolls or the Roll of 1859. Davy Crockett was a real man and a good man. Wasn't he executed by Santa Ana at the Alamo? You could probably write a book yourself!

[a la izquierda]

25. Felicidades!

I'll have to pick it up.

[yellerpup]

26. You're a sweetheart!

Thanks for checking it out!

[Tsiyu]

29. woohoo!!!!

Congrats my friend :loveya: :applause:


:bounce: :party: :woohoo:

:toast: :headbang:


:yourock:

Edit to add:

Tonight at friends' place, they told me that the property next door - another friend's property where I have spent a lot of time over the last twelve years, played a lot of music on that spot - is on the direct path of one of the Trail of Tears.

(There were several different paths over the Mountain and my friend says if you look at the detailed maps one main trail goes right over our friend's land.)

So it was funny to come home and see a discussion about it on the DU, and your fab book for sale.

[yellerpup]

30. What a welcome!

And what a great story! I am glad to hear that music is being played now on that trail where they cried and that you are one who is playing it. And, gratified that that those people are not forgotten. I shall think of you living well on your land, working hard, and playing music on that ground. :hug: