A Call in the Wild

A Call in the Wild (2008) Post 363

A Call in the Wild is another of those occasional stories I'd utterly forgotten until a copy turned up out of the blue. I have a vague memory of writing it, but until I saw the byline I'd forgotten it was a co-authored story. As far as I recall, I was asked to finish a story someone else had started... or maybe the other writer just did the outline. Anyway, it's a graphic novel, which means there's almost no way of identifying how much of it I wrote. (Style shows up in narrative, and this has captions and dialogue.) Manuela and ehr parents take Erin camping and the two girls go hiking in the American wilderness. Manuela's parents are totally against mobile phones. They are vegetarian, yoga-practitioners and subsistence gardeners although, as Manuela sourly observes, the computer is "different" because it's used for work. Not wanting to upset Manuela, Erin doesn't reveal that she HAS a phone until it's badly needed... Since she hasn't been pulling it out all the time, Manuela's parents have to concede that mobiles CAN be used responsibly.

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The goal for 2017 is to write a post a day profiling the background behind one of my books; how it came to be written, what it's about, and any things of note that happened along the way. If you're an author, an aspiring author, a reader or just someone who enjoys windows into worlds, you might find this fun. The books are not in any special order, but will be assigned approximate dates, and pictures, where they exist.