Trey Barker, former Midlander, has been dealt a setback.
He is a Lee High School grad of a couple of decades ago, and he's currently a deputy sheriff in Bureau County, Illinois. And, he's an author and a blogger. He's written songs and plays, and some of his first short stories were published in 1994. His novel, "2,000 Miles to Open Road," can be found at Green River Books and at Amazon.com.
His blog can be found at Bullets and Whiskey.
Now he's facing a hurdle. He was diagnosed with stage three cancer last year. Then he had a heart attack. But you can't keep a good writer down -- the treatments and all that he has had to endure are chronicled at his blog. Excerpt:
A month later, I went to the World Horror Convention in Seattle. Amidst the well wishes from writer friends and memorials for Dick, one publisher sat me down and asked, "So, was this a publicity stunt?"
Yeah, let me show you the picture of the cardiac before and after. Yeah, because I've made so much money, gotten so much press, from having a heart attack. What an ass. He followed that up with, "Did you think you were going to die?"
There are quite a few things that scare me, but death hasn't yet been one of those things.
In neither case, the heart attack nor the cancer, did I think I was about to cash it in. In neither case did I cozy up to any angels and give them a big wet smack on the lips.
Trey, we'll joke about this in about 40 years. In the meantime, hang tough.
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