As of today, I have
six books in production.
That doesn’t mean
an idea for a book. It means material has been written, a draft
of a manuscript has some weight and form to it, things are moving
along and the effort has a good chance of being completed.
Six.
The trouble is,
I don’t know about four of them. They’re just not ready for
complete attention to be placed in their direction. Also have
some questions to answer about each.
So, today I want
to give you some additional details on the two that are moving
steadily along toward release.
A
Parkside View: Volumes 5 & 6
Feels odd to consider
this as accurate, but if anything exemplifies the swirling craziness
around my writing recently, A
Parkside View efforts might do the
best job of it. The newsletter itself is an extension of the
web site, and has become an important part of the Backpackville
community. (At least it definitely has for me.) It began as
a way to take the writing being done and present it in a new
way. It has provided some interesting approaches to new content.
And, a lot of struggles have been overcome to keep it moving.
The newsletter really
has a bit of everything.
In 2020 and 2021,
more than five dozen essays appeared on the pages of A Parkside
View. All of them will be included in this book, which
will be the third collection released of material from the newsletter.
There will also be a few surprises and exclusive content involved
as well.
A
brief digression (usually from a tangent)
Our second book
features In My Backpack essays drawn mainly from the
past five years, and is also likely to include material from
all nineteen years of Backpackville goodness.
That’s right… I
said five years.
Five years have
passed and it’s time for the next slightly askew celebratory
anniversary collection. We also might see moments of new content
developed especially for its release.
Both of these books
are on track to be released no later than mid-August. And, yup,
for those of you familiar with the importance of August 26th
around Backpackville, you know that means the push is on for
them to be available for the next National Buy Bob’s Book Day
festivities.
Two essays to wrap
up the day…
“The
great corn cob mystery”
“How
do you do that?”