Bob's Memoirs: 4,000 Years as a Free Demon Volume 1 ended yesterday without really being noticed. Which is as it should be, since Volume 2 continues Friday with the next chapter in the saga. The book became so unwieldy that I had to cut it up into three volumes of five parts each.
Volume 2: After Caesar (Mostly) picks up the story with Part VI, chapter 27. It bounces between San Francisco in the 60s and India in the third century AC (After Caesar). Yes, there is actually a reason for this and it all makes perfectly clear sense. To Bob.
Also available on Bookapy, May 27.
In other news, I'm pulling up stakes and heading out of Las Vegas tomorrow, just as 100+ degree weather moves in again. I'll be traveling north and spending the holiday weekend in Bordertown, NV before I start the leisurely trek across Oregon and up into Washington State. I haven't settled on a plan for the summer yet, but it is looking more and more like I'll be headed east if I can scrape up the dollars for gas. My eldest sister will be 86 in July and it's been seven years since I last visited her in Ohio.
Of course, I have other motives for making this trip east. The entire Team Manager series is set in central Iowa, an area I really haven't spent much time in. I thought I'd tour the area, visit the towns and colleges I based the fictional story locations on and then move on into Northwestern Illinois.
Why there? Well, the next big story is set in the northwest corner of Illinois, and I think it's time to visit the small towns and pick up a little more local color. That next big story, Full Frame, which is already some 200,000 words, won't reach you until the end of the Team Manager series is either upon us or near. Team Manager CHAMP! is slated to begin posting on SOL June 16 and will conclude the saga October 2. I'll probably break down and start posting Full Frame in September, just because I'm so excited about the story.
Of course, Bob's Memoir will continue running with Volume 3 and will not conclude until October 12.
Stay healthy, live a good life, and make the world a better place!