Secrets of The Ridges

Stan Parsons is a retired community banker who has always had a passion for writing fiction. 

 Upon retiring he moved to his cottage in the Northern Neck of his native Virginia to chase his dream of writing novels. After polishing up two stabs at writing while working full-time, What Happened, Randi? and The Children’s Rights War, he set a novel in the Northern Neck, CoriAnn Aground. Next, Stan wrote another novel set here, The Stovepipe Chess Club - - but rather than in the present, almost all of it takes place in 1931.

 He liked writing about the Great Depression and his next book, God Sent A Tramp, is also early 1930’s but mostly in West Texas. In Summer of 2020, As The Dust Falls, sequel to God Sent A Tramp and the 2nd book in that series, was released. The 3rd, Blossoming, was released May 13, 2021. He took a break from Gannaby to write the mystery novella, Secrets of The Ridges. Stan is now writing the 4th book in the Gannaby series.

 Character-driven Historical Fiction and Coming of Age have become his primary genres. He enjoys the research, using dialogue to show what characters think and feel, and describing settings and scenes. 

 In 2018 he discovered that he enjoys narrating. Audible.com has published two of his author-read audio books, The Stovepipe Chess Club and What Happened, Randi. But Sound Technology, a huge leg of creating audio books, wore him out. His focus is now back on writing.