Hi, I’m Viv Drewa. I’ve loved owls my whole life, since I can remember. I’ve even embroidered some on my tank tops. Yes, I love to sew and had my own business but the economy made it difficult. I made wedding gowns and formal gowns. I loved it and watching the faces of the girls as they tried their gowns on. I still sew and always will. It’s a passion I’ve had since I was seven years old. Other than sewing I like to cross stitch and crochet.

My other passion is reading and have been an avid reader since I first learned how to read. That’s what fueled another passion: writing. In the past I’ve written several things and won second and third place for a poem and a short story. The short story was later published in a Polish American magazine and then published. It was about my grandfather’s escape from Poland during the Russian occupation in 1913. I’ll talk about that later.

What got me started with this desire to write was a novel by JR Green, “The Whistling Sword.” when I was nine. The magic of that novel took me to another time and place. It was the most exciting piece of literature I had ever read at the time. I plan on purchasing a copy of it to re-read and have as an important part of my literary collection. And it’s still available on Amazon.

Enough about me. Let me share with you my novels and short story.

When I first started I had a wonderful author help me out. She told me about KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) and for paperbacks CreateSpace.

The Angler and The Owl

For 25 years France Hunter has been studying owls, and has discovered five new species around the world. Her work has kept her busy and she never had time for a relationship. She travels with Jason “Doc” Bradley, a former paramedic, and his cousins Tony and Andy Bradley. Now, on her last outing she is joined by a magazine writer, Cathy Birch, and a world famous angler, John Sinclair, who has also dedicated his life to his field.

As the small caravan travels to the Amazon river France falls and severely injures her left arm. Against Doc’s recommendation to turn back, she pushes on. This is her last trip and she wants to go to the place where she found her first new owl.

While fishing a blue-ringed owl lands on John’s canoe and looks down the river to where France’s group is, and then looks back at him. This alerts John. He gets the satellite phone and tries to reach her to no avail. He decides the fishing can wait and, with Mark in another canoe, begin the journey back to France.

At France’s camp two jaguars attack one of the boatmen severing his left leg. The other two boatmen, they all have rifles, shoot at the jaguars killing one. The other escapes with the boatman’s leg. Doc and the others wake to the noise and he and Tony go to where the boatmen are camping. In the ruckus the canoes become untied and go eastward down the shore and the sat phone is destroyed. Now they have no way to get help and will have to wait for John’s team to come back, which could take three or four more days.

Will help get there in enough time?

The Owl of the Sipan Lord

Martin and Clare Montgomery worked as an archaeological team until Martin’s accidental death at a dig they were working on in Peru. Clare swore she’d never go back, but after having a dream about the dig that didn’t add up to the finds of the area, and the help of the Peruvian Pygmy Owl and a blue-eyed spirit, she did.

Her long-time friend and mentor, Carl Windmueller, believed in following dreams and encouraged her to go. He tries to research what she saw in the dream but is visited by a red-eyed spirit that causes him to have a massive heart attack when he gets close.

Unfortunately, Clare doesn’t understand what Carl was looking into by the books on his desk. Her friend Cord gets a team together and they head back to Peru.

The re-eyed spirit does all it can to keep the team from finding it’s secret that has been kept for the past 1300 years. Near fatalities plague the team taking her back to the day her husband died. But she kept on until the truth was fully discovered.

This is a story about a widow who, with the help of an owl and blue eyed spirit, solves her husband’s murder, and a 1300 year old mystery in Peru.

I also had a remarkable book trailer made for“The Owl of the Sipan Lord” on YouTube.

From the Pages of Grandfather’s Life

This is the true story of my grandfather’s escape from Russian occupied Poland in 1913.
How he managed to get through all the dangerous situations, and at one point almost didn’t make it, has me in awe of his bravery even to today.

Ashtrays to Jawbreakers: June Project

And I was privileged to contribute to this collection of amazing stories by other fantastic authors.

Here are ways to see what I’m up to:

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