Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000

From: "James Sweater"

Subject: My Grandfather

To: info@amazon.com

Dear Amazon,

I have never visited your website on the internet

before. I, of course, have seen commercials and stuff.

I have only had my 'puter as I call it for about 6

months and I just love sitting around on my time off

looking at websites and reaching out from my home in

Roanoke,VA to the outside world.

So, before I ramble on forever let me get to the

point. I have just spent father's day with my father.

In the course of a pinochle game he makes reference to

my Grandfather's books. I almost died, choking on a

mimosa!!! Wouldn't that have been a sight. A guy dying

at a fancy restaraunt during thier father's day

brunch. 

I had no idea that Grampy had been an author. It seems

my Grampy had written a bunch of books back toward the start of the century. He gave me a list of titles -

"Who's That At The Door?" , "Parker's Down With The

Flu", "Molly's Arches", "The Danover Difference", "Red

Hen Killed Again", "Night Of The Butter Knife", "The

Loose Morals Of Pastor Davis", "Barnaby Makes Good", "The Reckless Rapscallion", "Hard Time In

Bollinsville", "The Pirates of Maple Avenue", "Bells

of  Anger", "Der Luger" and "Pride Among The Waves."

So I asked him if he had copies. Obviously I wanted to

read them. He told me that most of the books went

through only one printing and the family copies went

up in 1948 in the same farm house fire that took my

Uncle Jeb (my eldest boy is named after him.)

I don't even know where to start. I always thought I

was a family odd ball because I secretly want to be a

writer. I work for the Roanoke Sanitation Dept and I

have been working on a novel called "Ouch! That's My

Soul!" Now I find that it's in the family. But I don't

know where to find these books. His name was Oskar

Svetarovicz. (My father changed it to Sweater in the

mid fifties.)

Do you have any advice? Let me know how I can go about finding my grandfather's body of work.

Thank you so much!