M. C. Duncan

Hi I'm Mel (Melvin) I love to write science fiction, mystery, adventure, ghost stories, historical fiction and coming of age teen mostly about small towns in the southern part of the states.

I was born in 1940 (a good year for something, being poor I think because we sure were).

In 1947 I became a farm hand. You know, someone who works on a farm. From then until 1959 I visited roughly 30 states and went to as many schools (when I wasn't in the fields). We started out hoeing and picking cotton in Missouri and worked our way north to Michigan where berries were plentiful, didn't pay to well though. Then, we went back south stopping in Indiana to work tomatoes and on south all the way to Florida where I learned all about Oranges, across to California where Prunes and other fruits grow. 21 August 1959 I got tired of being a farm hand and joined the Navy. That worked pretty well, three meals a day, a place to sleep and they taught me things, Math, Electronics, Sciences and a number of other things. Gee guy I got a place to sleep three squares a day and got paid for it. In 1961 while home from Guam, on Emergency Leave, I met this cute little blond named Sarah. As soon as I finished a tour on Guam I returned home on September 1962 and married her. That was five kids and 50 years ago. She stuck out seventeen years in the Navy with me, being moved all over the Pacific and the states so I decided to keep her (lol).

She has put up with a lot, raising five daughters while I was shipped all over the Pacific and Atlantic. We now have 12 grand children and five Great Grand children. I have written 23 books and had them all published to date. Now if I could just get an audience.

My science fiction starts off with THE BEGINNING, a five book series which includes STARMAN, BOWMAN, WAR IS HELL and ending with a two in one binding, STARLIGHT and LILLY OF EMPIRE. On the ghost front is THE HOUSE ON PERI LANE, a little spook tale about an old pre-civil war mansion. I had a lot of fun writing that for my Grand Daughter Peri Grose. She took it to school and showed it to all her teachers but wouldn't let her brother Travis so much as touch it so I had to buy him a copy. It is now on Amazon as a soft cover and kindle. http://www.createspace.com/3390864 for $12.65 and as a kindle book for $3.00. I would recommend it to any parents with kids in 4 to 12th grades.

I also wrote a story about my eleven years as a rural news paper delivery boy. Can you believe it, 50 years old taking a job as a paper boy. Oh I had some adventures on that job. There were cows on the road, Ladies that got thrown out of their house in the wee hours, two attempted holdups and about anything else you would care to think of. I got tired of it and quit March 30, 2001 and Apr. 5 Wal-Mart called me and wanted me to work for them opening a new store, (788 in Clinton). I stuck with that six years then had a stroke and decided I best quit before I killed myself.

While running the paper route I wrote several more books, including one about a Truck Driver which I dedicated to the truck drivers I talked to on the CB every night for those ten years. I Retired from working in the spring of 2007 and sat up another house for Sarah while recovering from a stroke. Believe it or not, but that really helped. I got my strength back and my coordination improved. My right side still isn't one hundred percent but is still improving. So, now I stay at home and raise cats. Yup, Cats. We have seven now thanks to a pregnant female that took up residence. She had a litter of five. We fed her and she took care of her kittens until they were weaned then disappeared. We searched for days but never found her. We took the kittens to raise, gave two away and still have the other three, two males and a female. That takes us up to the summer of 2012.Mel.