COMING  IN JANUARY, 2016:     A FOX WITH EARRINGS     
        When flamboyant and wealthy Cass Tolley is murdered, her lover, Nolan Chastain is distraught and then galled when he realizes that someone is trying to frame him.  Nolan owns an upscale real estate firm and interwoven with his sleuthing are attempts to salvage the tricky sale of a million dollar Italianate villa to a newly retired Air Force general and his wife.  "Something in camouflage, no doubt," had been Cass's observation the night before she was killed.  Over the course of the book, Nolan uncovers deeper truths about himself and his former wife. 
         Set in springtime Augusta, Ga., a few weeks before the Masters, this story is graced with heartwarming humor and turns out to be a terrific love story as well. 

An unsolicited review of: Roll On Sugaree
          "Cock fighting, con men, a fight for land and water rights, and, of course, a love story. This book has it all. Being from North Carolina, it is refreshing to read a book about the South without caricatures of toothless rednecks.  Loyd Little brings the reality of rural life to the front while telling a great story. This is about people with ties to the earth and their families, and the struggle of the rural economy in an increasingly disconnected urban world. The descriptions of the intricacies of cock fighting and the varied social networks they create put a human face on what is normally a subject only associated with animal cruelty. I also recommend his two previous books about Special Forces in Vietnam:  Parthian Shot and In The Village of the Man.  Loyd is a master story teller. "
                                                                                      --- Posted by Greg Ingram  on Amazon.com 

Another unsolicited comment about Roll On Sugaree:  
          "Rich in language intriguing in plot, deft in characterization, and impressive in exposition of cockfighting---its history, technique, and the classification of the birds themselves---including pictures."
                                                                                        -- Posted by Neill Clark on Facebook

Roll on Sugaree is online at EBay and Amazon.com.  You can also order it through Author House.  Also available in eBook and Kindle formats.  Roll On Sugaree is the story of a farm community fighting for survival when a nearby town wants the creek that is the heart and soul of the community. However, the story is far more than that:  
A couple falls in love and the romance is shaken by police raids, mistaken intentions and a secret map.

                              
                  Loyd and his wife live in Chapel Hill NC
                                                                          
                                 Novels Published

--  Parthian Shot, Viking-Penguin Press (hardback), 1975.   This

novel won the  Pen-Hemingway Award.  Also,  Parthian Shot was a


Playboy Book-of-the-Month selection.



--    In the Village of the Man, Viking-Penguin Press (hardback), 1977


--    Parthian Shot, Ballantine’s Ivy Press  (paperback), 1987


--    In the Village of the Man, Ballentine (paperback), 1988 

--     Smokehouse Jam, Ballantine’s Available Press (paperback), 1989 

--   Roll On Sugaree, Authorhouse Press, (hardback, paperback), 2013

                                                           

                                  Short stories    
                                            


- -        “Out With the Lions” published in Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Vets, McGraw Hill, 1973

 
--          “The Moon In June,” Playboy, March, 1977


--           Numerous short pieces in Snowball’s Chance, a North Carolina literary magazine

                                                             Non-Fiction


--     Fragile Islands of Memories is a picture book on the Hre Montagnards around Gia Vuc, a Special Forces

camp where I served in 1965, posted at <http://www.gia-vuc.com/loydsmemories.htm>                  

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