Rhiannon Frater
Dale Herd is the real deal. He lived in his van for twelve years, chasing the waves and playing the ponies. Along the way, he met surfing legends, outlaws, drug dealers, movie stars and people like himself, who opted for an alternative way of life. He also grew from a boy from rural Washington into a man whose affairs with three fabulous women are the stuff of fantasy. Dale lived the American dream, but with this difference— he also wrote it.
For years Dale’s writing, published by small presses located in California, was known only to a select group of American writers. But now, his accessible and wonderful new novel, is poised to catapult Dale into the mainstream.
Pray For Fair Weather depicts the heyday of the dropout surfing culture, with all its romance and danger. Its narrator’s adventures move from a more innocent period of American life in Ventura and Seattle to New York City and the excitement of the Art World and the well celebrities who circled it. These adventures have the ring of truth about them that can only come from lived experience.