Showing posts with label ginseng. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ginseng. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Where's the Suspense in the National Parks? by Rolynn Anderson

Happy Day-After-Halloween.  Hope you didn't wake up groggy from massive amounts of chocolate!  Dose with many cups of coffee.

On to serious matters.

Many of you know the setting for my next novel will be somewhere in the National Park system.  Mystery and mayhem in the parks?  Of course!

Poaching is a year round issue in our National Parks.  We hear about hunters shooting and extracting their kill illegally, with park officials hot after them.  Bear paws are an Asian delicacy/aphrodisiac.  Unlawful grazing on Federal land is a continual problem.

But I’d like to consider: gem, fossil, or veggie poaching.  Yup, I said veggie poaching.  Truffles and ginseng.  Did you know ginseng goes for $400 a pound in some markets?  (Here's a parsnip pretending to be a hot piece of ginseng...I know...it's a stretch)



So I ask you, which topic would interest you more in a suspense/mystery/romance?
-rooting out truffles and/or ginseng
-illegal gem extraction
-poaching ancient fossils and/or thousand year old cultural artifacts



Any of you have contacts with Park Rangers or Bureau of Land Management folk?


Thanks for your insight, friends!  On November 10th, a peek at my new cover!


Six Suspense Novels Spiked with Romance