I am  Eric Forrer, a 74 year old in 2020.  In 1962 I came into the country, Alaska, as a teenager with teacher parents.  They taught for the old Bureau of Indian Affairs when the BIA had management of all US reservation and Alaska bush schools.  We had a year on the Warm Springs Reservation, a year on the Navajo, five years in the same village on the Papago 25 miles from the Mexican border, and then a pretty big leap to Alakanuk, 15 miles from saltwater at the mouth of the Yukon River.  Two years in at Alakanuk I got my GED by correspondence and was off to college in Fairbanks.

 

I didn’t make the transition from village life to the halls of the academy gracefully and basically lived a blue-collar life in fishing and the trades.   Doubleday published my first little Novel, From The Nets of a Salmon Fisherman, in 1973.    A specialty publisher in Fairbanks brought out a childrens’ fable, Bucket, in 1985.  Then the same publisher, McRoy and Blackburn, brought out a  Novella, Colors of the Morning Sky.

 

Now I have a new manuscript, Waiting For The Weather.   This web site is basically an author’s page in aid of the process of providing background for these publications.