Look! “Grandpa-It’s-Never-Too-Late-Richard” just got another shipment of his latest book, Fancher’s Balls.
This week’s blog is essentially a pre-sale announcement of a “mini relaunch” of that book of selected pieces. Originally it was only on Amazon in the Kindle format, but will soon be available there in paperback as well. Once it appears there, I will be offering free copies for a short while. So get ready now for that blockbuster event. I will be letting you know on this site as well as Facebook and Twitter.
This relaunch was recently kicked off by this TV and YouTube interview covering all my books as well as some of my personal background and thoughts about writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9TdS7y-RO8
These other books are on Amazon in paperback right now, so you can include them in your Prime Days orders today: The Names in the Hat; and Dismissal
Several readers of my first novel, The Names in the Hat, have asked me about a possible sequel. They tell me that I took things far enough that my characters were successful in getting a radical approach called “sortition” as a means to make democracy more democratic adopted by voters as a constitutional amendment in one state. However that left several question hanging, such as Will it ever get implemented? Will it work? and Will it be adopted by other states and/or by the US Congress? All good questions.
While writing that novel, I came to like one of my important supporting characters, Lana Hartman, so much that I wrote three connected short stories featuring her as the protagonist (“Thanksgiving (2016),” “The Christmas Ham,” “Hail to the Victors”). These stories appear as a teaser at the end of the , Fancher’s Balls book, where I wrote: “Stay Tuned.” I am presently working to expand them into a full-blown sequel designed to address those hanging questions while probably raising some more.
So, again:
