The Gunderson House, Kenyon, Minnesota, which I borrowed for my new book.
[Thousand Ills That Flesh Is Heir To Dept.: My cold continues pretty much unchanged, like a visitor you expected to come for dinner, who means to stay a month. I still have no voice. It’s a little disturbing to realize that I can actually get through 99% of my day without needing a voice.]
Some of you seem to be interested in the new book, which I’m planning to publish digitally. I thought the process would take a while, but I sent the document file to Ori Pomerantz one day, and he got it back to me, tentatively formatted for Kindle, the following night. I think he’s formatted it for Nook too. The big slow-down may be the read-through I’m doing now myself, and the time it takes for me to whip some cover art together.
I can’t promise a release date, and no doubt there will be delays, but as far as I understand what’s going on (not much), it looks to be available soon.
Eventually, if I sell enough electronic copies, I may be able to get some dead tree books printed.
What’s the novel about?
Well, it’s called Troll Valley (you may recall the name of the place from Wolf Time). It’s set at the turn of the twentieth century, in my default literary locality of Epsom, Minnesota, a small town based on my home town.
The main character is Christian Anderson, a boy from a wealthy family, who has a deformed arm and a fairy godmother.
Major themes include Lutheran pietism, the goodness of God, grace, and the Evangelical-Progressive political alliance of that time.
I’m rather surprised to find, doing my read-through, that I quite like the book. I’m prejudiced, of course, but I think it holds together pretty well.
More as the situation unfolds.
Waiting with bated breath …
So now I’ve got ta be keepin an eye out for th’ Good Neighbors, too, is it?
And don’t you forget it.
The Gunderson house, eh? Sounds like an opportunity to manufacture some kind of “Fargo” tie-in.
Glad to see that seekers of good theological novels will finally have something more available besides that good old Lutheran cult classic “Hammer of God” by Giertz. Glad to see also that you’ll be opening people’s eyes to the fact that there have been other Evangelical religious-political realities besides Repub’damentalism, which really only arose well within my memory (I’m 46).
This is good news.
I’m rather surprised to find, doing my read-through, that I quite like the book.
Why? You have good taste. Seriously, this is a very good book. We need more growing up books like that, and I’d want my kids to read it when they get to the right age.
BTW, print books can be available quickly through lulu. However, they will be print on demand and therefore more expensive.
Cool beans!
Good news! Can’t wait to be able to read it.