I made my end turn in Columbus, OH Tuesday and headed back across the heartland. I don't move very rapidly when I'm traveling, so I don't expect to make it back to Las Vegas until mid-September. (2200 miles) Tonight and tomorrow, I'm camped about fifty miles east of Columbia, MO and then I'll spend three days in Lee Summit so I can get a reservation at Jess and Jim's for a porterhouse steak this week. Yum!
Bob's Memoir: 4,000 Years as a Free Demon, Volume 3 is posting and has been released on Bookapy. That one will finish up on SOL in mid-October. Team Manager CHAMP! and the entire Team Manager series will finish up October 2. Thirteen more chapters in that series is all she wrote.
But do not despair. The final edits of Full Frame have been received from the editors and I'm in the process of reading one more time for errors and corrections. And to code and format for posting and eBook release. I'm making sure names are correct, descriptions are consistent, distances and times are realistic, and that camera and film designations actually existed and were a reasonable choice for my young photographer to have in his arsenal. I expect to release the book and start posting it on SOL on October 2.
I am also preparing an advance review eBook copy for established reviewers who would like to review this when it comes out. There are a limited number or these, but if you would like to review the new book, send me a message. Don't bother if this subject matter doesn't appeal to you:
Nate Hart, class of 1968, has just been uprooted from his lifelong home in Chicago by his mother’s new career: Methodist minister. Moving to a small town in northwestern Illinois just before his junior year in high school, is going to mean starting over in life. But Nate’s passion for photography will lead him to other passions as he becomes his new school’s official photographer. It seems the girls in his school think it’s okay to expose themselves more than current standards would allow, because he’s just the photographer. No one else will see them, right? What Nate sees in the full frame of his photographs, however, will change the town.
This book contains explicit sexuality as experienced by and related by a teenage male in the 1960s. Things do not always have the same delicate handling that they do today. "Explicit sexuality" does not mean there is fucking in every chapter. It will take quite a while before young Nate manages to maneuver his girlfriend into bed. Or vice versa. It is a long book, intended both for eBook and serialization on SOL (260,000 words). If you'd like to review Full Frame, send me a link to one of your reviews to be considered.
At the same time that I'm preparing Full Frame for release on SOL on October 2, I'm 230,000 words into writing the sequel, Shutter Speed, which will be even longer. It covers a bit more time for the story arc and will be followed by a third volume, f/stop, as soon as I can start writing it.
So, obviously, the reason I don't travel very fast when I'm out crawling across the country is because I have to stop a couple of days and write after each little drive. Very talkative characters!
Hope your summer is going well (or winter down-under).