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Frank W. Butterfield
Hi Yafa! -- The Adventures of Nick and Carter series got folded back into The Nick Williams Mysteries series last year (this is not obvious here on Goodreads, unfortunately). They became Books 33-38 in the Mysteries series. Book 39 was The Vicious Vintner. Book 40 will likely come out early next year. Thanks for asking and hope all is well with you! Frank
Frank W. Butterfield
"The Adventures of Nick and Carter" starts off three years (1970) after the end of "The Nick Williams Mystery" series ends (1967) with THE LOVELESS LAWYER. Each book's description has a date at the top of the description, so that can tell you the order. And, I'm working on a page on my website that is all about where to begin and what order to read the books in. Thanks, so much, for your question!!
Frank W. Butterfield
Hi! Thanks for your question! As of The Redemptive Rifleman (Book 29), there's been no explanation. It was just presented as a done thing in The Derelict Dad (Book 26). The modern management structure (the one they will probably have until the end) is defined in some detail in The Redemptive Rifleman. Please feel free to contact me via my website if you have any more questions about this. Thanks!!
Frank W. Butterfield
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Frank W. Butterfield
Hi Randy -- If you're enjoying the series, you might want to read An Enchanted Beginning. It covers the period of August 1947 through December 1950 and tells how Nick & Carter met, how Nick finally decided it was OK to spend his loot, and a few other bits and pieces that are woven into the mysteries. You might see two novellas listed here, 1947 and 1948, that are no longer available. They are expanded and integrated into An Enchanted Beginning. Thanks for reading and for your question!
Frank W. Butterfield
Turn on your computer or open your notebook and start writing. Write poems. Write short stories. Write weird blank verse snippets Write dialogue. Write anything. Just write until you get accustomed to the flow of words through your fingers or at the end of your pen.
Know that you're going to probably hate reading what you wrote at first.
That's OK because one day you'll write a paragraph or a page and become entranced by the form, the style, the idea, or just simply excited because you didn't make a your/you're, there/their/they're, or were/where (my personal gremlin) mistake.
Once that happens, there's no going back.
Know that you're going to probably hate reading what you wrote at first.
That's OK because one day you'll write a paragraph or a page and become entranced by the form, the style, the idea, or just simply excited because you didn't make a your/you're, there/their/they're, or were/where (my personal gremlin) mistake.
Once that happens, there's no going back.
Frank W. Butterfield
While writing The Sartorial Senator (which, as of right now, I'm editing), I hit a kind of writer's block: I started worrying about the plot and how people would react to some of the grittiness of it. I did what I do whenever I hit a block: I did something else. That's the only way I know to deal with anything like that. And it works. May take a while, but it works. Also: really dark chocolate helps.
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