Attua The Aleut

About the Book

Ronald Rowan is a retired executive of a major corporation and the author of seven novels. SAME GAME, HIGHER STAKES, the present sequel to the novel being offered here, was originally published traditionally and is available, in the original version while they last, directly from the author. For details, e-mail him at ronrowan@dellnet.com or send a pre-printed personal check in the amount $5.00 per copy, plus $1.95 S&H (1-2 copies) to Ronald Rowan, 712 Shallmar Rd., Kitzmiller, MD 21538. It's a great read.     THE NEW TRIBUNES, a radically audacious political/suspense/thriller will be the next novel to go up on the Internet. Don't miss it, it will knock your socks off.    The 're-mastered' version of SAME GAME, HIGHER STAKES, will quickly follow. Only minimal changes to the original version are involved. A melding of ATTUA characters and connecting plot-lines only are required to firmly fix its pedigree. There may be a Vol.III somewhere in the misty future.    The other three: THE TENDER LEAVES OF HOPE; SOUND THE CLARION, and its sequel, PLAY IT AGAIN SAM, will all follow in due time. A reader of all the manuscripts calls it a "smorgasbord of good reading."    Mr. Rowan is a history major, however, his novels are real life and character driven. His riveting stories are set in a contextual history of the times depicted. he believes in a lot of dumb things such as morality, honor, virtue, integrity and that character really does matter; for without it you don’t even have a shot at the others. You might say such dumb things are major themes in all my stories.    The one being promoting here is a three-fer; it used to be a trilogy.  It is entitled, “Attua the Aleut,” and it is written for youths and young adults ranging from 14 or 15 to 20 or 22 years of age.          An editor at Little, Brown And Company wrote the following to his agent as she was turning it down for their list:    “Despite the fact that Mr. Rowan has a wonderful writing style and voice that immediately captures the attention of the reader and holds on to it until the end, we would have difficulty placing this on our list as it is too long to be a title on our young adult list.”      Despite the fact that she tends to write long sentences, she had only read volume I, 130 pages of double spaced text with the publisher prescribed broad boarders all around, each page averaging less than 22 lines. “Too long! Give me a break!" was Mr. Rowan's only comment.       Here’s a sample of “Attua the Aleut.”  The setting is Attua’s initiation into The Circle of Men, at the conclusion of his twelfth full cycle of the seasons and after proving his hunting prowess on the open sea: “Well-schooled in the ways of his people, Attua knew, better than most of his peers, that of necessity, boys, such as he, passed over the markers into manhood at tender ages in a harsh, demanding world.”      Read on please.                  .   .   .     At the tail end of the meeting of the Circle of Men, the shaman caused most of the men present to feel uncomfortable as he called Attua, to the center of the Circle to make his maiden speech before the other men of his Clan. He used cutting, belittling remarks.  The meetings marked the beginning of each new moon (the timing for which was always determined by the shaman, whether or not a moon had been visible at all in the winter sky for the usual long periods of time).  Despite his rudeness, the nearly drunken shaman expected nothing more than a thankful babble from the boy, as usual, under such daunting circumstances.     Though Attua was now a man in the eyes of his Clan, this was, after all, his very first participation in the Circle of Men: the sup

About the Author

Ron Rowan is not a formula author. A high school dropout and an Air Force veteran, he went back and got a college degree making Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, and graduated as a family of four. He hired on with a Fortune “50” Corporation as a “summer” welder and ended up an executive of the company with stock options, bonuses and C.C. memberships on raw talent and a good work ethic – he’s a LEO, of course. At 53, when he felt his health was being compromised, he walked away from the “Corporate Culture” and never looked back. He spent most of 1951 in Korea; married his college sweetheart Neva, and still loves her deeply after 48 “short” years; has two wonderful “kids,” Rona (born on his birthday), an Eng. Lit. teacher and Richard, an engineer: Go Penn State! Ron presently lives in the western-most mountains of Maryland, cranking out novels (9 so far) and enjoys his lengthy retirement (?).