Tim Baker

About

Tim Baker was born and raised in Warwick, Rhode Island.

After graduating from The Wentworth Institute of Technologyin 1980 he embarked on a career in Architecture and Engineering. Along the wayhe has also worked in the natural gas industry, construction and ice creamsales.

In his spare time he enjoys a wide variety of activitiesincluding sports of all kinds, music, photography, model building and, ofcourse, writing.

An avid dog lover, Tim was a volunteer puppy raiser forGuiding Eyes for the Blind, raising and socializing potential guide dogs.

He has also studied and taught martial arts.

Inspired by his interest in Karma and the unexplained forcesof the universe, he made his first serious attempt at writing in 1988 when hebegan writing a novel entitled Full Circle, a story about the farreaching effects that one man’s actions can have on people he has never evenmet.

Unfortunately without the use of a computer or even atypewriter he shelved the project due to the difficulties of trying toconstruct a novel completely by hand.

Even though Living the Dream is his first publishednovel he plans on completing

Full Circle

once his next novel Water Hazardis published.

Currently, Tim is enjoying life in Palm Coast, Florida.

To contact Tim or find out about upcoming works please visithis website at www.blindoggbooks.com

A King Under Siege: Book One of The Plantagenet Legacy

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Richard II found himself under siege not once, but twice in his minority. Crowned king at age ten, he was only fourteen when the Peasants' Revolt terrorized London. But he proved himself every bit the Plantagenet successor, facing Wat Tyler and the rebels when all seemed lost. Alas, his triumph was short-lived, and for the next ten years he struggled to assert himself against his uncles and increasingly hostile nobles. Just like in the days of his great-grandfather Edward II, vengeful magnates strove to separate him from his friends and advisors, and even threatened to depose him if he refused to do their bidding. The Lords Appellant, as they came to be known, purged the royal household with the help of the Merciless Parliament. They murdered his closest allies, leaving the King alone and defenseless. He would never forget his humiliation at the hands of his subjects. Richard's inability to protect his adherents would haunt him for the rest of his life, and he vowed that next time, retribution would be his.

Story Behind The Book

The most amazing thing about this book is that, as the first line of the story says, it all started with a dream. Six months after moving to Florida I had a dream about two old friends. These two people each knew me, but not each other. Needless to say, the dream was a nonsensical collection of stray thoughts and bizarre scenes that made no sense whatsoever. There was one theme that did stick in my head though...that these two old friends were conspiring with each other to steal a large stockpile of gold bars. The next day I couldn't get the dream out of my head and over the course of the day I began to expand on the fragmented story that my dream had begun. By the time I was driving home from work that evening I had the impetus for the story, most of the characters and a fairly good idea of what would happen. Before I knew it I was spending every spare minute I had writing. And that is the story of my story! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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<h2 class="BookTitle">Living the Dream</h2> Tim Baker Dog Ear Publishing (2009) ISBN 9781608440870 Reviewed by Kam Aures for Rebeccasreads.com (07/09) "Living the Dream” by Tim Baker starts out with Kurt reminiscing about an event that took place thirty years ago. He had met a girl named Vicky at a Doobie Brothers concert. When he and his friend tried to get her and her friend to leave with them, Kurt got a little overzealous and grabbed her and tried to kiss her. She defended herself by kneeing him in the groin and kicking him in the ribs. Then came a moment that would change his life forever; she screamed which got a patrolman’s attention, and when the cop came over she told him that Kurt had tried to rape her. For this incident, he ended up serving six months and got two years of probation. The reason that this event is brought back into focus is because of a dream that Kurt has about Vicky. With these memories in the forefront, he decides to embark on a journey from Rhode Island down to Florida, where Vicky lives, to kidnap her and try to extort a large amount of ransom money from Vicky’s rich husband Jimmy. What follows is an experience wrought with disaster for Kurt. The story starts off with the individual chapters each focusing on the different characters and then slowly their lives start to intertwine and intersect. I truly enjoyed this aspect of the book and Baker did a great job of neatly tying everyone together. My favorite part of the book was Kurt’s adventurous drive down to Florida. I loved reading about all of his mishaps and bad luck. It was one thing after another which made for a fast-paced read that will definitely hold your attention. Overall, “Living the Dream” is a humorous crime novel with a cast of very interesting characters. Baker does an excellent job with the character development and his descriptive writing allows the reader to vividly picture all of the scenes taking place. I look forward to reading more of Baker’s novels in the future!

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