My loyal readers, I hope my last four blogs I sent had you entertained.
I discovered through my lifetime friend that using my blogs to express my political beliefs tended to turn him off. I would assume many of you are in the same position. And heaven forbid, I might offend my loyal readers because their views doesn’t mesh with mine.
Anyway, my writing progress is going steadily forward and I actually went back and did a major rewrite of another short story anthology that is part of the Four Seasons Series. The anthology I even renamed because one of the stories I wrote had the same title and it was confusing for the Microsoft cloud. I rename the book Road to Nowhere. Like I said the stories still revolve around the main character, Mark Marteau and the minor characters that give depth and enhances the readers’ experience and enjoyment. I found the book missing a key element and decided to add a story that I hope when this is published will be the diamond of the book.
Now, time for good news bad news. Austin Macauley sent me a letter about a month ago informing me that because A Man’s Passion was less than stellar in sales, they released their rights to the book, and I was in a quandary as to how to proceed with this project. Good news is that another company has informed me of their interest in pursuing this book and rebooting it. I’m still uncertain how they want to do this, and they informed me today they want over $3000 for their efforts. Money I just don’t have at this point.
The Nate Turner project is going as expected. It’s a lot more research intensive because I want the experience to be as authentic as possible. I want my loyal readers and any new readers, who may be into Western books, to feel like this is authentic. Where I’m presently at now is still before the telephone and electric light. It’s still a primitive existence for Nate Turner and his family.
That’s all she wrote, excuse the cliché. Maybe later this month I might get on my soapbox and do something political. Enjoy your summer.
Jerry Schellhammer 