Loose Change

A while ago, Forge began reissuing my Skye's West novels as double mass-market paperbacks, selling at groceries and airports for ten bucks. Somehow, I hadn't heard about it, probably because of my own health troubles. But now the first checks are rolling in, and they are substantial. There are three doubles out, and two more are in the works, one in August and another next March. And they are not all Skye novels, either.

I had expected to write to age eighty, and then see my savings decline as age caught up with me, but these reissues will add several years to my writing life and extend the period when I make a living entirely from my fiction. I'm eighty-one now and the savings are still growing.

The reissues tell me that I still have a readership, even in old age, which is comforting.

So far, the fat doubles include Rendezvous and Dark Passage, The Far Tribes and Yellowstone, and Sun River and Bannack. In August, Snowbound and Eclipse will be published.