I’m pleased to announce that my publisher Friends United Press has released a hardback version of Luke’s Summer Secret and also a second printing of A Winding Road to Freedom with a new cover. You can order copies through the link to Friends United Press on my website or through Amazon.
I am also pleased to announce that I will be doing a book talk and book signing at Two Sisters Books and More in Richmond on Saturday April 7 at 2:00 PM. I will talk a little about how I included events from local history in Luke’s Summer Secret as well as what went into revising the book for the newly published revised edition. Please spread the word.
I have heard from the Indiana Historical Press that they will publish my most recent book tentatively entitled Hoosier Beginnings in 2019. I’ll work with them on some final revising later this year. Stay tuned for more news when my new book comes out.
In the meantime, here’s a teaser for my book talk:
How did I get back into my characters minds after so many years? It was easier than you might think. Naturally I read the original book again. Several times. I did the proofreading that needed to be done but I also wanted to make sure the new opening chapter I added was true to the characters I had originally created based on my research. I wanted to make sure every word said by Levi Coffin, Catharine Coffin, Cassie, and William Bush was consistent with who they had become when I first wrote the book. I wanted to make sure any thought or gesture was consistent with what I had originally written. So once again, I listened to my characters. I waited until I again got the sense that I knew my characters – until I could hear them talking, until I could see them in my mind’s eye.
Then I was ready to write the revised edition.
If you’d like to hear more about the local history connections in Luke’s Summer Secret, I’ll be saying more on Saturday April 7 at The Two Sisters Book and More, 193 Fort Wayne Avenue in Richmond.
Randall Wisehart 