Darrell's Memoirs

Darrell's Memoirs

I've been asked by a number of people when my biography will be posted. Something or the other always seemed to get in the way of it, but I guess it's about time to get started. Rather than a short biography, I have decided to make it into a rather extensive memoir, and to post some of it each month to my web site. Each new posting, and archives of previous parts of the memoir, will be found by clicking on the "MEMOIR" link at the top of the web page.

I hope readers will find at least parts of it interesting. The South, in the fifties through the seventies, along with my time in the military, were particularly formative periods of my life. There's some good, some bad. I don't promise to completely bare my soul, but what I do write will be as true as memory serves.

Update 06-25-07

The Rest of the Memoirs

This may be a disappointment to those who have become interested in my memoirs, or who had begun reading them but hadn't finished them yet. Don't despair! This isn't like a serial, where the writer suddenly died or decided they didn't want to continue with the series. You can still read the rest of the memoirs, in a greatly enlarged form. Just let me tell you what's happened.

I was probably more surprised than anyone at how popular my memoirs became and how many readers followed them avidly, waiting impatiently for the next installment, and how much mail they generated. One of the persons who followed them was Lida Quillen of Twilight Times Books, one of my publishers. She thought they were so interesting that she offered me a contract to expand them into a book after I posted the final one. I just finished doing that. The book was edited by Michael LaRocca, who did a fine job, and the e-book version is now posted at Fictionwise.com or Booklocker.com and will soon be available at eReader.com under the title DARRELL BAIN'S WORLD OF BOOKS. The print edition will follow next year. The title is derived from my life-long love of books which have played such an important part in my life and were frequently the only thing that kept me going.

If you do nothing else, I sincerely urge you to read the blurb accompanying the e-book at Twilight Times Books or Fictionwise.com in its entirety. I intended for it to be inspiration to anyone struggling to accomplish their dreams under adverse circumstances. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Darrell Bain
June 2007
Shepherd, Texas

2006 - 2007

January 2007 installment [Part II] -- "Living and Loving in Old Age"