triplets of tennerton

Don’t Call It a Book Tour (Redux)

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Just thought I’d check in while I’m still out promoting my award-winning new book, The Triplets of Tennerton.

I’m about halfway through my planned events. I had a really great time at Plot Twist Books in South Charleston and Cicada Books & Coffee in Huntington, doing some signings and reading. I got to add another event, too, and appear as the featured author at the monthly Writers Can Read gathering in Huntington.

That last event is particularly neat, as after the feature author reads, anyone can get up and read from works in progress or works long finished. We had memoir, poetry, and other fiction read that night. You can keep up to date on their events here.

In addition to events at the Lewisburg Literary Festival and West Virginia Book Festival, I also have another neat event to announce.

On August 17 at 6pm I’ll be appearing along with a couple of other local authors at Bake My Day which, as the name suggests, is a bakery! In addition to readings and signings, there will also be music and a wine & macaron tasting event. Truly, something for everyone.

More details here.

Regular programming will resume in early August, after the event in Lewisburg (and my wife’s birthday!).

Programming Note

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I’ve been delinquent with the blog posts the past couple of weeks. Partly that was due to some business travel related to my day job, but more so it was due to having a few different irons in the fire I thought I’d tell you about.

First, you’ll recall my newest project, that I started during NaNoWriMo last year. As I said in December, although I’d “won” by hitting the 50,000-word target for the month, the first draft wasn’t finished. It wound up not actually getting finished, for a couple of reasons. One of them was that a second main character kind of appeared in my brain and inserted herself into the story in a way that shifted things a bit and made finishing the originally conceived first draft kind of pointless. Long story short, I’m now working on the second version of that first draft, polishing and adapting what’s already been done and weaving in my new character. I’m really excited to see how it comes together.

Second, you’ll also recall that I have a sequel to Moore Hollow in the works. I’m also doing the final prep on that to get it ready for release this summer. Part of that includes rebranding Moore Hollow as the first book in a new series, Paranormal Appalachia. Part of that is a new cover. I don’t want to share it, yet, but here’s some idea of the imagery in it:

The new book finally has a title, The Triplets of Tennerton. More details in the coming months!

So, for the next few weeks, I’m going to buckle down and work on that stuff. Back here in May, I imagine. Until then . . .