Check this new review of Sivapithecus Americanus on Smashwords

Review by: Belgo on Oct. 28, 2015 :  
Excellent story!!! This was a very interesting tale, yet very plausible. There was a lot of science included, which was informative but did not get tedious. I think this could be a terrific movie! Bravo, Mr. Gibson on a great story.

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New Book - Wild Men (Unnamed) at 11,000 words.

Thus far, with only 11,000 words, I have complete newspaper articles from 17 states, two Canadian provinces, and a couple foreign nations. Most are older stories, i.e. early 1920s back to 1839. For those more recent I am using the headlines and a brief summary of the article.

You must know. This is not a Bigfoot book. Wild men did exist. Feral humans lived on the edge of civilization in the nineteenth century. Others were more the freak show type of wild men, while according to the witnesses' accounts, many others may have been wild animals, like those huge bipedal hairy non-human primates we all know about. This compilation of accounts will allow you to reach your own conclusion.

Starting a new book....Not Zombies this time...It's Wild Men.

The book is unnamed as of yet, but the subject will be the written accounts of the wild men of North American. The older stories of wild men have fascinated me for the last number of months. The Indians knew about them, but the new arrivals from Europe did not. Stories were passed on from mouth to mouth until newspapers began to report on them, beginning in the 1830s, as the growth in numbers of newspapers exploded. Some of these were wild men were just that. They may have been jail escapees, crazies, slaves on the run, deserters, criminals, circus and exhibited fakes or just those in search of the quiet, solitude and beauty of nature and perhaps more than one huge, bipedal, hairy primate that have stalked the forests for perhaps thousands of years.

There are plenty of stories to tell. The headlines are sometimes amusing, and outright laughable. Newspapers were often skeptical of any reports or sightings and did not shy away from disparaging witnesses as having overactive imaginations or too much to drink.

Thus far, 3000 words with many more to come.

Repair of Painting

I may be able to publish my crudely edited video of the repair, but until then here's what I did.

1. Cut out a patch of canvas big enough to cover the tear.
2. Take the painting out of the frame.
3. Apply the patch over the tear on the back of the canvas, using an appropriate adhesive. I used a medium.
4. Weight down the patch with books, making sure there is aluminum foil or waxed paper between the books and the patch so glue doesn't stick to the books.
5. Once the patch dries, paint over the front of the painting where the tear was. It's just a touch up of the small lines of the tear, but make sure the strokes, color and body of the paint sufficiently cover the tear.
6. Let it dry. You're done. Except for a small patch in the back of the painting, it would be hard to tell you had a tear.
Repairing a tear in a painting