Lad Moore:
The author is a former corporate vice-president who left the boardroom and returned to his roots in "Deep East Texas"---the fountainhead for much of his writing. He retired to a small farm near mysterious Caddo Lake and the historic steamboat town of Jefferson, where field chores and writing seem to balance his energies.
Lad's life experiences are splashed freely into his writings. His early years were like a pinball game, shuffling among caring family members between stints at military school. His parents divorced early, and his father was always away---following his dream, soldier-of-fortune style. Much of Lad's life was high adventure---his time in strife-torn Indonesia, the wilds of post-war Burma, and a year on board a steamer-freighter sailing the world. In high school Lad joined a circus---only one event in a series of rites of passages that he reflects upon in his stories.
Lad has been published more than 500 times. A collection of stories about various 'scalawags' titled "Odie Dodie" is available at all major booksellers or directly from the publisher, BeWrite Books.
His second published work, "Tailwind," has recently been released. It is a 40-plus story collection of memoirs---true accounts of growing up in East Texas in what Lad calls his "days of cottonmouths and cotton candy."
The author's works have appeared in Carolina Country, Amarillo Bay, The Pittsburg Quarterly, Paumanok Review, Eclectica, Manx, Danforth Review, Literary House, The Virginia Adversaria, Adirondack Review, and in AIM, America's Intercultural Magazine, among others. A four-story collection, "Natcherly Bad," was published in Creativity Magazine. Lad's heartwarming family story, "Final Approval," was included in Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul, one of the latest in the Chicken Soup line of NY Times Best Sellers.
A prize-winning story, "The Firmament of the Third Day," was published in the Best of Carve Magazine Anthology. "Burger Recollections," a burger-shop memoir, was published in the Food Encyclopedia, "ABC's of Food" at Peach Blossom Press. In addition, Mr. Moore is a past winner of both The Wordhammer Award and the Silver Quill. His short story "The Day Hunter" was nominated for the 2002 Fiction Award at The Texas Institute of Letters.
Lad's most current work can be found in Adams Media's anthology series, "The Rocking Chair Reader." The author's stories appear in the first four volumes--each available at booksellers and at Wal-Mart stores.
