Hard Choices

I guess its time to decide which one of my unpublished manuscripts to put on Kindle. The obvious choice is "Lily" the third and last book in the Old Australia series.

TJ's daughter, Shiloh, returns to Old Australia from San Francisco to find out what happened to her father. On the road, she befriends an echidna named Baldwin, who plays the harmonica and is writing an autobiographical novel about gluttony and addiction. The two are imprisoned by a promoter, Colonel Winchester, who has plans to make Baldwin the greatest prize fighter in all of Old Australia.

Lily, Shiloh's mother, comes looking for her daughter in the mining towns on the edge of Hell and the rest of the novel unfolds.

However, I have written two other books I am proud of and am not sure which one of the three to put on Kindle. With professional editing and a good piece of cover art, it costs over three thousand dollars to put each of the books online.

I know from experience that the chances of getting your money back on literary novels published on Kindle are slim to none. So, I have to ask myself if my ego would be better served by giving a different genre a chance; A memoir of war and lovers from times gone by, or a novel of the tragic relationship between a doctor and a pilot set in the Hispanic New Mexico of the 1920s.

These books, like the trilogy about Old Australia, are on one level just adventure stories. I am not at all sure that very many people are interested in adventure anymore. The culture seems to have turned inward, as if there is an answer in being self-absorbed.

Suggestions would be appreciated.
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Published on April 11, 2018 10:13
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message 1: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer Worrell I truly hope you make the third available. I just finished the second and can't stop here!


message 2: by Howard (new)

Howard Anderson I doubt that Lily, the third book, will ever be published. If you want to read it I will be glad to send you PDF or Word copy of the novel.


message 3: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer Worrell Howard wrote: "I doubt that Lily, the third book, will ever be published. If you want to read it I will be glad to send you PDF or Word copy of the novel."

That's unfortunate! Can I ask why?

(Of course I'd love to read it, however, is there something I can do in return? It doesn't feel right to accept it for nothing.)


message 4: by Howard (new)

Howard Anderson I sent you an email


message 5: by Howard (new)

Howard Anderson I sent it to the address on your website, but it came back as undeliverable


message 6: by Jennifer (new)

Jennifer Worrell Howard wrote: "I sent it to the address on your website, but it came back as undeliverable"

That's because I'm an idiot.
It should be fixed now, but I can put it here too, if you like.


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