Karanja Run by Gordon Smith

After retirement, I took an interest in researching my family. This research and discovery gave me knowledge and ideas, which brought about the writing of my first book, “A family that went to war.” After publishing my first book, other books sprang up quickly. His second book was “An Australian story” – the saga of an Australian family over two centuries. In this book, I wrote about Australia’s early settlement, the events that made Australia, and the makings of a family. Amazingly, this book sat on the Amazon best-selling list for the Kindle history of Australia and Oceania for about ten days, giving me further inspiration as I wrote my third book within a calendar year. This third book, “The Ministry Communications Unit,” is pure fiction based on a fictitious movie company set up by the Government during World War 2. I found a lot of this story on the locations that surround Caloundra. I next took on a fictional novel, “Lady Ruth Bromfield,” an inspirational biography about a Jewish girl raised by an English Church of England priest and her progress to becoming a passionate leading industrialist. I then wrote “Men with a Mission,” an eye-opening account of events in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the 1969’s and 1970s. I then wrote “The Sensual Retiree,” a romance story about a woman whose husband dies shortly after he retires. She makes new friends and discovers that a widow in her sixties and seventies can enjoy the company of male suitors. I then wrote “The Aboriginal Cameleer,” a story about a small Australian town during the late 1930s. Although initially aimed at older children, this book has a broader appeal. My last completed story is Karanja Run. Karanja Run is a station in the Australian outback and tells the story of three Fitzsimons siblings and their adult adventures. I have entered a new phase; I am converting my fictional stories into screenplays for either television mini–series or full-length movies.