About A Week and a Day by Hal Adkins
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It’s 1945; David Hamilton is a WWII pilot struggling for survival in a doomed Corsair fighter plane in the war-torn skies over the Pacific Ocean. Suddenly, just as all hope appears lost, his life takes an inexplicable turn, leaving him searching for answers as he finds himself confused and alone in a different time, place, and, perhaps, identity. With little choice but to enlist the aid of two reluctant strangers, David embarks on a desperate cross-country journey in a 1941 Ford Coupe that possesses its own bizarre past, and purpose, to find his way home and keep a promise made to the most important person in his life. Subtle clues and revelations soon emerge, even as three evil beings shadow their every mile, waiting to strike with a vengeance. A Week and a Day is a captivatingly unique story of unexplainable happenings, and fragility of time, as the past and present mysteriously collide.
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Author Bio:
Hal Adkins is a professional photographer from the small town of La Moille, Illinois, who has been interested in writing for a long, long time. And in retrospect, should have paid more attention in English class as that knowledge is helpful if one desires to spend time and effort putting words together in a logical and entertaining fashion. This, along with his final chance to pass high school typing class by achieving the required 25 words a minute, he managed 26, which did not bode well for a brisk and productive writing career.
Nevertheless, he pecked away at a manual typewriter and early word processors on various projects, including books and articles involving aviation, 40 years ago, along with being a contributing editor and photographer to aircraft publications.
Though often not a fan of modern technology, some of that tech made it more viable in expanding into other writing venues, starting with the humor book; Hal Adkins Ain’t Normal from 2011. In the spring of 2012, he began writing his first novel, with a word count currently at over seventy thousand. He still considers it a work in progress, without much progress.
While waiting for further inspiration on that project, another novel, one with a concept and storyline which had been floating around in his supple mind for some years, came to life in January 2018. A Week and a Day was published four-plus years later and likely would never have been completed at all except for the writing aids technology has provided, making creative writing more efficient and less stressful. A prolific writer of fiction, he is not, and prefers, the term, "methodical."
Over the decades, he has engaged in several interesting and memorable endeavors; rode motorcycles, flew airplanes, went scuba diving without actually knowing how to swim, parachuted out of a perfectly good airplane, and spent a great deal of time racing cars. Primarily, he has been a professional photographer for over 50 years, with writing always being a keen aspiration when inspiration struck and time allowed between taking pretty pictures of strangers for money.
Hal has been very gratified, appreciative, and encouraged by the positive and complimentary reviews and comments received about the unique story A Week and a Day tells, and hopes to pick up the writing pace in the future as he loves to tell stories and make stuff up.
The concept and storyline behind A Week and a Day developed from two “I wonder what would happen if?” scenarios he’d been contemplating, along with an actual book-related event that puzzles him yet today.