WHEN EARL WAS KING NEPTUNE is a keenly insightful account of the author's family, and of his personal experiences, observations and intersections with people, places and events in the last half of the 20th century in the Northeast portion of the United States. His story is told with great interpretative skill, wit and occasional humor and at times considerable cynicism. Part history, sociology and biography, the people, places and events, along with the author's sharp personal observations, that make up When Earl Was King Neptune, will stay with the reader long after the book is finished and put aside. They are of the life and mind before cyberspace took control

SPACESHIPS AND LIQUOR is a collection of both amusing and deadly serious essays, vignettes and commentaries on life in contemporary America. The author includes a section he calls Politically Incorrect, wherein he trods in opinionated territory, not always comfortably. You may not agree, but you will not be bored. Balancing this are more neutral and light-hearted views of the authors friends and his various involvements. Someone said to him recently, Didnt I see you this summer in Moscow? The author invites the reader to return with him from an African adventure and travel across three time zones from east to west in the United Statesa mental travelogue. And to join him on some imagined intellectual precipice to enjoy the viewbefore jumping!

The stage and film actor Peter Holden (Parkhurst) has called Dayton Lummis "a cosmic town crier." Indeed, that he is, and more. This latest volume, Ramblin' Bob, will reveal that. Read it! The California social critic Tom Englezos said of Lummis's previous collection of acerbic thoughts and often politically incorrect observations: "I thoroughly-and absolutely-enjoyed NOTES. I was informed, and-often-outraged! Great stuff. Damn! I hope you have more coming. A lot more!" Ramblin' Bob is more. And still more...

CLIPPINGS FROM THE VINE consists of selections from the author's seven published books, and concludes with a series of contemporary personal essays, observations and opinions as we enter the Obama Era of hopefully positive change. Ranging from Coast to Coast, all over the Inter-mountain West, and covering a period of almost sixty years, the author deftly chronicles his experiences and the characters he has encountered (such as desert rat "Mr. James," featured on the cover). He does so with wit, insight and frequent discontent. These selections can be read as a cross section of a greatly changing America. Whether for the best or not is always on the author's mind. Clippings From The Vine is "solid America," of a type we shall see little or any of in the future "instant media society." And, the author asks you not to judge him, until you've walked the streets of Victor, Colorado...