About the author
G. Russell Peterman is a graduate of Thomasville, Missouri High School, Southwest Missouri State College, and an M.A. in American History from Vanderbilt University. Gene Russell Peterman is married, a father, grandfather, and great grandfather. After retiring from teaching after 30 years in the classroom, he turned to writing. Gene Peterman writes as G. Russell Peterman. He collected up his forty years of poems and published i am cabbage, a book of poetry. Also, he has co-authored with his daughter Kriston Dunya four novels: (two historical fictions) My Eyes are Red and Afternoon Moon, and (two science fictions) into the void and Tyro. Also, they published three collections of short stories: Marrying Tree Stories, Crossing Niobrara, and Woman's Creek.
After her passing he started writing alone. Writing alone he published the novels: Luck's Wild, a civil war story, The Centauri Conspiracy, a story about putting people on other planets, Blue, a story of a young girl mixed up in the Bird's Point land swindle, and the novelette Showdown at Ribbon Rock, a story of a dying man returning home. He collected up his remaining "Western Heart Series" short stories into books four and five: East of Yesterday and Western Heart Stories to compete the five book series. Also, he collected up his odds and ends writings into a volume titled Odd Ends.
Believing in community service, Gene Peterman is a volunteer. He has been an active volunteer for 42 years. He was elected for 20 years to the Millersville Rural Fire District Board of Directors and served as a volunteer fire fighter and Treasurer and earned Missouri State Certification as a level 3 Fire Instructor. He was appointed Treasurer of Public Water Supply District number 2 and served for twenty years. He was also appointed for two years to the Cape Girardeau County Planning Commission during a failed zoning attempt and was elected its Chairman.
Other books by the author
A collection: stories and poems
Odd ends [folktales, fantasy, fiction, poems, historical fiction, personal narrative]
Novelette: Western
Showdown at Ribbon Rock [a dying Joe Kirt goes home]
Novels: Historical Fiction
*My Eyes are Red [creation of a western family]
*Afternoon Moon [an 1865 English child travels to Seattle]
Luck's Wild [a Missourian in the Civil War]
Blue [April Barcroft's story midst Bird Point Swindle]
Novels: Science Fiction
*Tyro [earth's first alien 3 million years ago]
*Into the Void [mistreated Kai people leave galaxy]
The Centauri Conspiracy [peopling other planets]
Poetry:
i am cabbage [a forty year collection of free verse]
Western Heart Series: short stories collections
[Stories about the troubles western men had finding a wife]
*Marrying Tree Stores: Book One
*Crossing Niobrara: Book Two
*Woman's Creek: Book Three
East of Yesterday: Book four
Western Heart Stories: Book Five
*co-authored with my daughter Kriston Anne Peterman Dunya
A sample short story from Western Heart Stories
From collected short stories in the fifth book of the Western Heart Series