Douglas Fox: Blog

I am currently preparing for Book 4. One of the things on tap for my story will be the Eagles flying over to Munich to play the Bengals on October 1, 2032 at Allianz Stadium.

I am looking for help from any of my German readers. I know the NFL organizes a youth flag football tournament before the game. Are their other events, activities or festivals that happen in that time frame? Oktoberfest perhaps?? I also would love suggestions for places for the team to stay. The hotel will need to house at least 100-120 persons for most of a week. I plan to have the team prepare at FC Bayern Zentrum training facility.

Send me an email if you are willing to help. I will send you some of my questions and would love the hear suggestions about how to feature Munich in my story.

Doug Fox

The latest installment of my ongoing Coming Home series has been submitted for posting. Book 3 has twenty-two chapters and roughly 215,000 words to it. I will post two chapters a week on Tuesdays and Fridays until the entire story is posted.

I am finishing incorporating Persecutor's recommended corrections into my master text now. I hope to have an eBook version of Book 3 ready to post in a couple weeks.

I hope everyone enjoys my continuing story of Kyle & Penny Martin and their family. I also wish everyone one a happy new year.

Douglas Fox

I finished the first draft of the book last week. I sent the final three chapters off to my editor. He reviewed them and returned them promptly. I am working through his edits, incorporating his suggestions into my final draft.

I will post Chapter 1 of Coming Home - Book 3 on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. I will post chapters on Tuesdays and Fridays until I have all twenty-two chapters posted. I will post the complete ebook on Bookapy late in January when I get it prepared.

I thank everyone for your patience with me. I hope you enjoy this story.

Doug Fox

Today is a red letter day. I have completed the first draft of Book 3. My editor has four more chapters to review. Once he is done, I will incorporate his recommendations into the final draft of the story.

I doubt I will be ready to post until after New Year's. I plan to post two chapters a week (Tuesday and Fridays, probably) until all twenty-two chapters are posted. The work runs 215,000 words and 493 pages in MS Word.

I will post my full Book 3 as an ebook on Bookapy after I have it ready. I am guessing I will have six to eight chapters posted on SOL by that time.

Anyway, thank you all for your patience. Book 3 will be out soon.

Doug Fox

I so enjoyed my stay up in Vermont. Sadly I had to come home after Labor Day. I am as swamped with work as ever right now. That is the bad news. The good news if that there is a light at the end of this busy, dark tunnel I am in. Retirement is eight weeks away.

My editor has been doing yeoman work. He has the first seventeen chapters of Book 3 done for me. All I need to do is find/make time to finish the last two or three chapters remaining and have him go over them.

I hope to get that accomplished in January. I will begin posting as soon as I am finished with the initial draft of those final chapters.

Doug Fox

Laugh for the day:

Only in Lancaster County...
There was an accident down the block from my house this evening. A farmer on his tractor wasn't paying attention when he pulled out from a side street. He ran into a combine! How do you not see a piece of farm machinery as large as a combine and run into the side of it?