Quaker Plays for First Days

Introducing a new book of plays:

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All profits go to Quaker organizations.

Includes the following plays:
Down in Our Hearts (2016)
Silly Poor Gospel (2016)
Mor I Xon (2013)
Bartram's Flower (2009)
Second First Day at the Interfaith (2008)
The Monster of Kanifloria (2007)
Good Tidings of Yule (2006)
Thou Heardest My Voice (2005)
The Turning Point (2004)
Quakers Rock the 17th Century (2004)
The Life and Times of Lucretia Mott (2001)
The Life and Times of John Woolman (1999)
The Story of Benjamin West, Quaker Artist(1998)
The White Feather (1997)


I can't say I'm a master at this; I am at least prolific, though. These plays have been out there for almost twenty years, published in various paper forms, not easily accessible. When I compiled them I was faced with the choice of using the skills I'd gathered over twenty years to redo each of the older ones, or just publish them as they were written and performed, back in the day, in the Interfaith Center (for the most part), Carbondale Illinois USA. I chose the latter, and, as a tribute, put the meetinghouse itself on the cover (it is, in fact, endangered, as one of the plays will attest). For the children (now adults, or at least young adults) of Southern Illinois Quaker Meeting, this book will be a walk through the past, and I can't say that all of them will be overwhelmed with joy and sweet memories. But all of them learned a lot about Quakerism (my intent), and I promise each of them one of these books, if I should ever find them.

I could tell you more about each one: each has a history, is different from the rest, works on different themes. Instead I think I'll refer you to my quaker website where I'll try to be very complete about this.

I am proud to announce that the second audiobook is now available; The Five-Second Rule is now available on Amazon, or through ACX, Amazon's audiobook distributer. Try it!

I am really proud of all the hard work that went into making it an audiobook, mostly on the part of my colleague, Greta Gorsuch, who painstakingly read each story into an audiobook file, got it up to the specs of ACX, and has even done my other book, Do Unto, which was published earlier. I think it's fair to say she's spent a career listening very carefully to spoken English and the meanings it conveys; she cares about audio quality, and she will be successful in this new sideline career of reading audiobooks, among which my two were first. No sooner had she done them, than she got a number of offers from other authors, who know how valuable a good bookreader is. I consider myself lucky and don't want her to stray into other publications.

The latest news is that I got this blog post to appear on my Amazon Author's page. Being new to this game, it took me a while just to find my own Amazon author's page. I have one though - soon I will link to all my sites, and do a better all-around job of self promotion. One has to!