Douglas Fox: Blog

Boy, did I blow my concluding chapter. I still thought today was Tuesday until lunchtime. It may be a day late, but here is the final chapter for this installment of Coming Home.

I am around 160 pages into Book 3. I doubt it will be ready until sometime in 2023. I will keep writing and then get my editors busy checking over and fixing my many mistakes.

I enjoy feedback or corrections for errors in the story. Feel free to write. I will try to get back to as many of you as I can, though sometimes the response is overwhelming.

As to the other story I mentioned in my last blog, I am still working on "Elam and Lydia - An Amish Love Story." I will be posting it on this erotic story website, so it will have sex in it. Yes, the Amish do have sex. Quite a bit of it actually. There is a reason they have eight to twelve kids in their family. As I researched things for the story, I found out that 13% of first births for Amish couples happen less than nine months after their wedding. Their faith may lead them to an unusual lifestyle to our eyes, but in the end, Amish men and women are no different than that rest of us. Human and prone to error.

Thanks for all the support and encouragement you give me.

Doug Fox

There are three more chapters to go on Book 2. I hope everyone is enjoying it.

I posted my old story "Drive for Excellence" on bookapy.com. I finished editing it last winter and had to wait for the season to change for the book cover photo I wanted. I finally got a Saturday with good weather and leaves out on the trees.

I have been writing for almost eighteen years and still the creative process can surprise me. I received inspiration for another short story a few days ago. It will be called "Elam and Lydia-An Amish Love Story."

Do any of you readers speak Pennsylvania-Deutsch? I would like someone conversant to check the on-line dictionary and translation apps. Also, I could use someone to check and make sure I have the traditions described correctly in my story. Anyone willing to check my work should contact me. I would appreciate the help.

Meantime, enjoy the remainder of Coming Home-Book 2

Boy did I blow it. Somehow I managed to title my new story "Lost and Found-Book 2" instead of calling it "Coming Home-Book 2" as intended. Go ahead and read it. It is the correct story.

I am seeking Lazeez's help to correct my error. I am not able to fix it myself. I will post the promised Bookapy.com epub later tonight. I am having issues with the cover size and cannot complete the upload until this evening after work.

I will turn voting on for the story once I have a few chapters posted.

Thanks for your patience.

Doug Fox

Everything is on schedule for the first chapter of Book 2 to post on Friday, April 8th. I will be posting the story chapter by chapter on Tuesdays and Fridays until the fifteen chapters are posted. You may purchase the complete story on Bookapy.com if you are too impatient to wait for the free version.

After seventeen years of writing and posting, you would think I was used to the editing process by now. Normally I write a scene and reread it, correcting errors as I go. I do a second read of a chapter before I send it to Handyman for his edits.

I take Handyman's edited chapter and print it out. I reread the paper copy, accepting or rejecting his suggestions, while also correcting anything I find when I read it.

I finished this process a week ago for Book 2. I converted the Word document into an epub. Since I had some spare time before my planned start of posting, I decided to thoroughly check the epub to avoid problems like I had with Book 1 and the four Lost and Found epubs.

I am amazed that I found another thirty-some errors missed in the previous four readings of the text when I read through the epub version of the story. Will I ever get everything cleaned up in one of my stories? I fear not.

Please feel free to email me and report any errors, typos or corrections in the story when I begin posting it. I am grateful for any and all help.

Doug Fox

My editor, HandyMan, has completed his review of Book 2. I have five more chapters to review before I am done with the story. When that is done, I will prepare an epub document of the story.

I plan to begin posting on April 8th. I will post a chapter on Tuesdays and Fridays until the story is complete. You will be able to purchase the complete story from Bookapy.com on April 8th, if you are unwilling to wait for the free version of the story.

Do not expect Book 3 anytime this year. I am working on it but I have roughly 62,000 words of a story that will be 150,000 to 200,000 words.

I hope you enjoy what I have written.

Doug Fox