Another (First) Novel

The common advice for writers is to bury your first novel and never let it see the light of day.

I have gigabytes of “first novels” that have never been completed on every kind of hard drive, jump drive, floppy disc…you name it.

My first complete novel, however, received its last word on March 17, 2021.

Since then, I’ve penned and published three others, and now I’m cycling back around to that “first novel.”

They say your first novel is always garbage. They refer to them as vomit drafts and worse. I really did not know what to do with it, so I took their advice and gave it the ol’ heave-ho.

However, it does tie in to the series well as a prequel.

It does have some characters carrying over in Lost and Found.

And the more I’ve looked at it, the more I’ve liked it.

So this winter break I’ve been putting the finishing touches on it. Soon it will be edited, and then soon after PUBLISHED.

That book, which we’ll call by it’s working name “Around the Corner from Anywhere,” is a lot of fun. I wrote it as a YA novel. The characters are in their late teens, but they get involved with all sorts of trouble (including teleportation, Sackerson, and the ‘bad guys’ from the other three novels I’ve published).

I’ve not written the blurb for it yet, but I am finding it to be the most entertaining of the lot. If I were to write the description, it might go something like this:

How can a meteor shower ruin your love life and tangle you up with a future version of yourself? How does space junk falling from the sky make you an outlaw and leave you missing a hand?

That’s what Lark Fortune wants to know, but he’s too busy running from the law and from time traveling future goons to even ask the questions. He’s teamed up with the the hottest girl in school and a couple of jocks—and a creep named after a bear—and none of it seems to help him solve the problems he’s been thrown into.

His father is also on the run. The unlikely outlaw Dr. Christopher Robin Fortune, an astrophysicist, might be the key to the whole mystery of the Guthrie Fall and the prospect of teleportation.

Even a cagey young cop, Shae Ward, can’t seem to put it all together…but she’s closing in.

People are dying all around them.

Dying to catch them.

Dying from being near them.

Lark just wants to find his inner peace, and maybe his right hand…and maybe the love of his life…but that would require him to turn back time. If he could just find a way…but not even Cher can do that!