A Great Week

I had a great week. I hope you did too. My first book, Bill’s Cajun House of Pleasure, went on sale on Tuesday. On Wednesday I was the feature of David Ellis’s UK blog. On Thursday I placed an order with my publisher for copies of my book. I’ll sell these at upcoming events. People bought my book and posted about it on Facebook. The weekend weather has been bright and sunny, allowing me to do things outside and step away from the computer for a bit.

With a great week of dreams fulfilled, it’s back to work tomorrow. I still need to finish my work in progress. This is not a sequel to Bill’s Cajun House of Pleasure. I’m creating a new world for my medieval fantasy series. Each story will be a stand-alone and cover a different time period. This is similar to the Brother Cadfael series I’m reading where each of the twenty books is its own story and can be read in any order. I’m including quite a bit of humor in this new world, namely: the royal carriage being blocked in with the arrival of dinner guests, imagining how the Internet and a blue tooth network could have worked in medieval times, the fighting ability of a new squadron of Pee-Ons, the unique way a small town in the Gray Forest handles their dead, how licking a toad affects my main character, and many more. It’s a fun story to write.

Finally, I mentioned earlier this month New Orleans celebrated a birthday. Tomorrow the whole state gets to join the party. On April 30, 1812, Louisiana joined the Union as the eighteenth state. This was nine short years after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. Get out and party again, Louisiana. It’ll be a romp in the swamp for sure.

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What I’m Reading – Many readers I know like to inquire what their favorite author is reading. At the end of each blog post, I’ll let you know what book I have my nose in. I hope my choice of reading material inspires you to read a variety of authors and topics. I finished reading book four of the Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael series, Saint Peter’s Fair. I’ll post my review on Goodreads and Amazon later today. Tomorrow I start reading book five in the series, The Leper of Saint Giles.

Bill’s Cajun House of Pleasure is available on Amazon, as an eBook, and in physical formats.