"Rappahannock Dreams"

I remember growing up in rural Spotsylvania County, Virginia. Our family didn't have a lot of money so you quickly learn to be very resourceful. I think that being somewhat impoverished as a child have made me more creative, especially in my writings. As a child, you learn to cope and adjust to your surroundings. I knew that I wouldn't get the kinds of toys that others got during the Holiday season, so I sort of made my own toys and fun...you had to back then. And as I grew older, creating things from nothing served me very well as I learn to use my strong imagination to create original, colorful characters and sometimes wild, compelling stories. One of the things that really eased me during my childhood was watching the local Rappahannock River. I remember as a child just looking at the water go by and wondering where it was going to...that thought often fascinated me so much that a lot of my own stories and songs have this very same underlying theme of someone being stuck somewhere and must try to get out somehow..some way...As a writer, I really appreciate what the Rappahannock River did for me...without knowing and realizing it as a child, this mighty river and it flowing waters gave me guidance...Sometimes, as I write today, I wonder where my words will eventually take me...just like the water in Rappahannock...where is it going?...where I am going? 

BOOK ISBN: 978-1478273721........... Set in rural Virginia, ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is a contemporary Southern crime fiction novel filled with romance, small town secrets, broken dreams and murder as locals from Spotsylvania County and Fredericksburg, including a young disabled Iraq war veteran, stop a misguided band of Washington, DC criminals from setting up shop in their quiet town. When Lamar returned home from Iraq they gave him a hero’s welcome but he actually never felt like a true hero until he pulled off his greatest mission ever. A mission that will make this disabled vet a local legend, and a mission that will literally blow you away. Jesse is a rising star but when his mother’s body was found in the murky waters of the Rappahannock, he trades his prized guitar for a shotgun. Ever since Turtle was little, he was always somebody’s errand boy. Now, twenty years later, he decides to break the mold and that is just the beginning of many mistakes Turtle will make. Randolph Randy Camp’s ‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is about the lives and dreams of underdogs. When you’re stuck in a nowhere place, physically or mentally, you dream of leaving. When you’ve been a nobody and strive to become somebody, sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t. Once again, this prolific award-winning writer paints a straight forward picture of contemporary Southern life and reminds us that, regardless of your income or race, there’s a touch of Jesse in all of us and there’s a little Turtle in all of us.

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‘FALSE DANDELIONS’ is available in paperback and eBook (Kindle) on Amazon.

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