LONG EMPTY ROADS Hard Copies Are Ready

My second proof copy arrived at the house today. I flipped through it. It looks good. I gave the thumbs-up to distribution, and I'll be ordering a stack tomorrow. If you are the sort who wants a hard copy immediately, I'll post the link for you.

While I haven't read any of the posted reviews (I fear reading them), I see at least 15 people have reviewed it on Amazon, and ten on Goodreads.com. For that, I am grateful. I have checked the page counts for Kindle Unlimited, and I'm seeing some pretty overwhelming number of pages read there, so thank you to those that have that service and are reading the book. Everything helps.

I sincerely appreciate the positive feedback from people who have reached out to me, personally. It means a lot. I would write in an echo chamber; I would keep putting stuff out, even if I knew no one was reading it because I'm driven to do it, but the fact that people are reading and enjoying my little stories means the world to me.

I am over halfway through the first draft process of LORD BOBBINS AND THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, the third #TeslaCon novel. I have started the editing process for LORD BOBBINS AND THE DOME OF LIGHT, the second Teslacon book, and I hope to see both in hard copy this fall. Though, it may just be more practical to put them out on Kindle only. The book is just not moving, sadly.

I'm hoping to change that, slightly, in early March. Bill Bodden, good dude that he is, tossed out an invite to attend the Geneva Steam Convention and perhaps speak on some panels, so I will be looking forward to heading there, and perhaps getting some new faces turned toward #LordBobbins' exploits.

I have also started the first draft of the third Survivor Journals novel. I'm hoping there will be enough demand for it. I have more adventures in mind, and there's enough of a world there to make it work. I think a lot of where I want to go with it reflects the second book in Wilder's "Little House" series, though. I have made no secret of the fact that AFTER EVERYONE DIED, in its own way, is an homage to Wilder's THE LONG WINTER. Hell, I talk about TLW enough in the book that it should be a surprise to no one.

However, I've read/been reading two books about Wilder's life and times, the first, CAROLINE by Sarah Miller, was a fictionalized and historically accurate account of LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, but told from Ma Ingalls' perspective. The second book, PRAIRIE FIRES: THE AMERICAN DREAMS OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER by Caroline Fraser, is a non-fiction book about Wilder's life, painfully truthful and blunt in its depictions of some of the less-glamorous aspects of Laura. Both are equally fascinating, and both give glimpses into a way of life that I think we are better off remembering well. Because of that, the idea of having to farm, to hack out an existence on a bleak new frontier with absolutely no safety net appeals to me.

We'll see what happens.

Thank you for reading LONG EMPTY ROADS. Please tell friends, family, and post reviews.

Yours in Reading,
--Sean

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