Welcome to the Website of Irving Warner 

02/2009 

     To express my thanks for checking in, I'm going to include (monthly) a short, original non-fiction or fiction work, yet unpublished. (please click on 'A Sampler'  tab above or below.)  If you want to give me a short-shot to the chops about it, e-mail me at irvingwarner@olympus.net  for the time being.   Don't be shy about it,  many do, and I appreciate them.  For your added pleasure, I've amended a "Monthly Weird facts" section.  Just click on it for a monthly view of genuine history.  (these will be attributed)

  For me, the major news is that Pleasure Boat Studio will be bringing out my collection of two trilogies (Crossing the Water ; ISBN: 978-1-929355-51-89) in a single volume in the spring of this year (2009).  It is composed of the Hawaii Island Trilogy (2007-2008) and the "Alaska Trilogy" (aka The Lost Road Trilogy; 2000-2001).  Between them is a short non-fiction work  thematically bridging Alaska and Hawaii. It is woven around my sighting(s) of the Pacific Golden Plover.  This far-traveling shorebird winters throughout the Hawaii group, and indeed as far south as Fiji, yet breeds in Alaska.  There is a special section in this website for Crossing the Water news and updates, which will soon appear in its own website when I can get it together.

    There is hustle and bustle on our part to bring this out in time for the 50th anniversary of the admission of Hawaii and Alaska to the Union (1959-2009). PBS has evidently made it, for as of this writing (1/1/2009) the galleys are  back!

    During 9/2008 I began work on the novel I was born to write, The Travels of Saint Cuthwin , which is set in  11th century England and Europe.  It is a work of historical satire--to apply a recognizable term to a work of futility and eccentricity.  In all humility, I predict a day will come that when stories of Christian saints become topics of praise, my name instantly will dominate.  Unfortunately, during 12/08, I went into a spiritual slump, and didn't work on anything, except hand puppets.  

   Cheers, and Happy New Year.   IW ,  01/01/2009