Cary – Episode #1©
When we meet in A Letter to Die For Cary is a senior at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She’s tall, very attractive, with dark hair and very green eyes. Adopted at birth, she is the daughter of Frank Warren, a physician, and Alice Warren, a stay-at-home mom. All her memories are of a […]
Cary – Episode #2©
In the months following the car crash and deaths of Cary’s parents, she often wondered if she had what it takes to go on. Had she been born with the fortitude to walk on in the face of total disaster? Without her family – her mom and dad – there was no one for Cary […]
Cary – Episode #3©
In Joe’s novel when A Letter to Die For concludes, Mike Webster had come into Cary’s life and then gone away. A gunshot in New Orleans had closed that chapter of her young life. Cary knew she would never get used to having him leave her. Despite the way she had grown to feel about him, she […]
Cary – Episode #4©
There was so much Cary didn’t know about him and so little she did know. Mike had told her things about himself, but could she believe them? Was he always secretive and on guard with everyone, even lying to her? On the lakefront in New Orleans, when they had been searching for her mother’s killer, […]
Cary – Episode #5©
Cary Anne Warren exhibited two important traits early in life. The first had to do with her intelligence. Cary’s parents, Alice and Kenneth Warren, began reading to Cary when she was still a baby. Her mother started with fairy tales. Kenneth didn’t; he began with the westerns he loved so much. Cary knew who the […]
Cary – Episode #6©
Circumstances and events can sometimes stress one’s body and mind until that individual is exhausted, both physically and emotionally. There are times when one doubts that he or she can go on. Age is not a determining factor. It can happen even when one is young. Thus, it was for Cary. The death of her […]
Cary – Episode #7©
(As told to the reader by Cary – In her own words) I could never have imagined the disaster that was coming that evening. It was a Saturday. That morning I had gone out to Mom and Dad’s house to see them off on a vacation trip to Washington, D.C. They deserved a vacation; I […]
Cary – Episode #8©
In Joe Shumock’s book, A Letter to Die For, you will remember that I lost my adoptive parents in a tragic automobile accident. That incident and everything linked to it took away the life I had planned. Through whirlwind events and changes I found I was not prepared to make quick decisions. A young female, all alone […]
New Website
Well, it seems like I have a lot of “new” to share with you. In my first “Joe’s Blog” I shared a little about my upcoming book, “The Last Parade”, which will be the fifth novel in my Letter Series. Today, I would like to talk to you about my idea to create a new website that characterizes Joe […]
New Year, New Story
As you may already know, a new Joe Shumock novel will be coming out soon. The Last Parade is the fifth and latest in Joe’s popular mystery/suspense letter series. This tale of a potential governmental takeover is staged with Washington, D.C. as its base. But as with other Joe Shumock Letter Series novels, unanticipated additional […]