Books you need to read.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Back in High School a wonderful teacher made me promise to write something every day...a page, a rewrite /edit, a chapter, a book, whatever, and to never throw anything way.  I promised ,and over the next 50 years I missed a day or two, but not many.

 

I retired in 2005 and decided to go through 27 "banker's boxes" of pages and see what I could salvage and maybe turn into a book.

 

While doing this I started to write in earnest.  I finished a short story written to "beak the boredom" of sorting through and reading my earlier stuff,  and when editing the new story to remove any errors, in the writing, historical fact, goofs, etdangcetera,   I suddenly discovered that it wasn't a short story at all, but a final chapter.  At the same time I had written another short story, but it didn't grab me as the first one had, just a few pages.

 

I had shared it with an Oregonian, one Charlie MacNeil, who really liked the story and asked if he could incorporate into a story he was writing.  Sure!  Why not?  I wasn't going to use it.

 

It became the first chapter of his story Complications: The Deputies Book 1, which actually beat my book Legends off the presses and onto the market by about four weeks.

 

He did a marvelous job on his book and even kept my character, a drifte named Harvey Palmer, alive and at the head of the line.

 

I took it down and reread it last week.  Now, I humbly submit that his book wasn't as good as mine (But then again practically no other book ever written is.)

 

We have both written other books since then but I encourage you get Charlie's first book, and mine, too.  Let us know what you think, and Charlie, if you're out there somewhere, drop me a line.

[Alpo]

Wowzer. I just did a search, and Complications is available on Amazon. $4 for Kindle. $100 for paperback.

 

$100 for a paperback? That must be one damn good book.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

54 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Wowzer. I just did a search, and Complications is available on Amazon. $4 for Kindle. $100 for paperback.

 

$100 for a paperback? That must be one damn good book.

It's a "trade paperback".  So was mine and I was selling them for $17.95 when they first hit the stands in 2006.  I was selling them personally for $17.95 or if you wanted an autographed copy, I sold them for $16.95.  Someone asked me why I sold signed books for less and I told them I knew what my signature was worth.  

 

I had no idea that either one was ever offered via Kindle.

 

I wonder if I can still get copies from the publisher.  I don't have any left and probably should have some around.

Edited February 8 by Forty Rod SASS 3935

[Alpo]

The internet archive is also got it. You can read it on their site. You can't keep it, but you can read it. For free.

 

They've also got yours.