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WORK TITLE: Angel’s Diamonds
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Writer and pilot. Works part-time as a bush pilot. Previously, worked as an ivory trader.
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Wayne Pinger is a writer and pilot. He works part-time as a pilot of small airplanes, participating in what is known is bush flying. Bush flying requires pilots to take off and/or land on pieces of land not equipped with runways. Bush pilots sometimes touch down and take off on the water, using planes with skis or floating devices instead of wheels. Earlier in his life, Pinger worked as an ivory trader. He has spent a significant amount of time living in the state of Alaska.
In 2018, Pinger released his first book, a novel called Angel’s Diamonds. The volume is the first installment in a proposed series called “Angels in Alaska”. In this book, Pinger introduces the series’s protagonist, Josh Browning. He uses elements of his own life experiences in the development of the character of Josh. Like Pinger once did, Josh lives in Alaska. He also works as a bush pilot. Josh and his wife, Claire, have settled in the town of Fairbanks and have been running the Golden Valley General Store. Additionally, Josh runs his own business, Goldstream Air Services. The Golden Valley General Store has been making them enough money to survive, but the shady gig Josh is running through Goldstream Air Services is much more lucrative. Josh has been hired to transport Canadian whiskey using his small aircraft. He delivers the whiskey to remote locations throughout the region. Josh’s contact for these gigs is a man who goes only by the name of Pete. He refuses to confirm his last name. A rival in the whiskey-running business, Jim Littlejohn, makes threats to Josh. He reveals that Josh’s activities have caught the attention of the leaders of the cartel for which Littlejohn works, and they are not pleased. Josh must decide whether he will continue transporting Canadian whiskey for Pete and his gang or submit to Littlejohn and lose a major source of income for his family. The book features other characters with whom Josh and Claire interact in Fairbanks. Among them is Carter Thomas, who insists that there are diamonds in Alaska and that he knows where to find them. The book’s title is inspired by Thomas’s dubious claim.
A critic in Publishers Weekly gave Angel’s Diamonds a review that was less than favorable. The critic described the book as “pedestrian.” The same critic concluded: “Pinger obviously knows and loves Alaska, but the narrative lacks direction and will have limited appeal.”
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Publishers Weekly, February 26, 2018, review of Angel’s Diamonds, p. 69.
QUOTED: "pedestrian"
"Pinger obviously knows and loves Alaska, but the narrative lacks direction and will have limited appeal."
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Angel's Diamonds
Wayne Pinger. Firefall, $24 (200p) ISBN 978-1939434-73-9
Alaska bush pilot Josh Browning, the proprietor of Goldstream Air Services, and his wife, Claire, the protagonists of Pinger's pedestrian debut, make a modest living from the Golden Valley General Store in Fairbanks. Far more lucrative is a gig that Josh has flying Canadian whiskey in his private plane to places like a gravel bar on the Coleville River. Josh and Claire tangle with a host of quirky characters, including Carter Thomas, a shifty Texan who claims he knows where diamonds are to be found in Alaska; Pete ("just Pete, with no last name that he would admit to"), a go-between for Josh and the liquor he's delivering; and Jim Littlejohn, a partner in a mining development firm from Fargo, N.Dak., who says he works for the Fargo Cartel and threatens Josh if he continues to make liquor deliveries. Readers will learn a lot about handling a small plane as well as running a general store. Pinger obviously knows and loves Alaska, but the narrative lacks direction and will have limited appeal to mystery fans. (Apr.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"Angel's Diamonds." Publishers Weekly, 26 Feb. 2018, p. 69. Book Review Index Plus,
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Four Surprises Lift Firefallmedia UK/US 2018 Launch Schedule
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"I see Firefallmedia as the penthouse of the real and imagined creating a new world idiom.” Robinson Joyce
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Four Surprises Lift Firefallmedia’s UK/US 2018 Launch Schedule.
Wet Paint, White Men of America by Jon D’Arc: the waterfall life in Washington flows toward a new political party; fiction.
Angel’s Diamonds, piloting Alaska, by Wayne Pinger: A bush pilot balances the odds in the book of survival.
The Moss of Cree, a Scottish Childhood, by Mary C Gladstone: from wean to sophisticate in her own evolving voice: an adventure in growing up.
Ha Ha, as Far as the Eye Can See, an autobiography in novel form, detailing the loss of empire and estate from an author with a DFC and a famous military and literary lineage
Wet Paint launches on Washington’s birthday, 22 February, Angel’s Diamonds on 2 April, The Moss of Cree on 1 June, and Ha Ha is planned for November.
In Wet Paint, a White House photographer and his NASA wife plot future sentient life with the help of family and friends. Among the Washington elite are successful career professionals, who, failing in their dreams, seek to swing the pendulum skyward into a closed circle. At the same time, family itself is a colorful and ever-changing canvas that tells it own story. Jon D'Arc is one of many pseudonyms of a recognized poet-photographer and long-time Washington resident whose earlier novels On the Crest of Time (coy, mysterious, sexy - Booklist) and Don't Drink the Eye Drops, Dream Rider (jolting...a swift quirky tale - Publishers Weekly) suggest the range and focus of his narrative gifts. This novel is the 4th in The Mystery of Fortune Series, which posits a simple axiom: fortune is a mystery to itself, luring us into the arms of the unexpected. Yet, we decide our fate, even if it's unintended.
Angel’s Diamonds is special as well: The way a cowboy depended on his horse, the pilot counts on his plane, but it’s a more subtle beast, subject to sabotage, the FAA, and long distances between feeding stations. In this absorbing novel, Josh Browning, Claire, and their ex-police dog Angel carve out a life for themselves in search of new wealth in Fairbanks and beyond. Do diamonds exist in Alaska or are they a con from the lower 48? Josh’s life depends on finding out the full truth. Of course, diamonds come in many forms, as personal, as unreal possibilities, as loyal friends, and as crystals from cold volcanoes. WAYNE PINGER, the author, is a 24 year veteran of the Alaskan experience, with five at the Geophysical Institute there. He also had a non-licensed aerial photography and taxi service: Fly by Knight, Mining and Exploitation. This is his debut novel and the first of a trilogy: Angels in Alaska.
The Moss of Cree is the second in the Highland Sea series after Largie Castle: a rifled nest. Raised on a dairy farm, Mary picks the natural path when possible, through spiky settings and happier dangers. The non-fiction narrative takes us with her, into finding and freeing herself for a new and open future. As a descendant of an accomplished historic family, she learns quickly the intrigue of wider opportunity. This autobiography will be featured at the Wigtown Book Festival in Scotland in September.
A boutique publisher with both debut and established authors, Firefall is expanding its reach with simultaneous publication in the US and UK. A company catalog can be downloaded at firefallmedia.com, and the full release schedule explored. The company is run by Robinson Joyce and Kathryn Delappe, managing partners, as the penthouse of the real and imagined, creating a new world idiom: “We’ve applied for the trademark.”