The Year So Far
The last 11 months have been odd and not just for me. There were high hopes that the pandemic would wind down and life would get back to “normal,” whatever the hell that means. Except, it didn’t. Covid v1.0 gave way to the Delta Variant, which largely destroyed Corporate America’s plans to put everyone back in their cubicles by September. And now, the Omicron variant has reared its ugly head. Facts are scant about the Omicron variant so far, despite what social media would have you believe. So, people with their rationality intact get to wait around to see what that means moving forward. More lockdowns and quarantines? Less? Who knows?
On the creative front, I’ve had a pretty good year. There was my bid to complete the first draft of Rinn’s Run (my space opera novel), which I did. With a little luck, revisions will get started in the next month or two. There was the release of the audiobook version of Turns: A Samuel Branch Novel. You can snag that over on Audible. I’m probably on track to finish Jericho Lott by year’s end, knock on wood.
Then, there was the project that I hadn’t planned on. I talk about it (or the process, anyway) pretty extensively over here. The short version of the story goes like this.
My great-grandmother, Genieva B. Pawling, was a teacher and (later in life) a writer. She published two memoirs about her life in rural, western NY. Given that she passed away in 1996, we all had the reasonable expectation that there would be no more books. Well, it turns out we were all very wrong. She had written a third book. It was a short memoir about her time teaching in one-room schoolhouses set largely in the era of the First World War and the 1918 Flu. The book was hidden inside a box and stumbled across by accident. The family weighed in and the decision was made to publish it.
You can reference the link above for my part in the process, but the big takeaway is that it’s now live on Amazon in print and eBook editions. You can snag it through Kindle Unlimited as well.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, you can check it out here.
Here’s a look at the cover.
