Over the past few days, I aggregated and trimmed the six (6!) (not six factorial) volumes that make up the Mendocino series into one document, and loaded it into Reedsy (my editing/formatting tool).

With it all in one book, the “where we’ve been” and “what’s next” parts aren’t needed, and of course I trimmed out the rest of the extraneous/duplicate front and back matter.

Still, it’s currently 50 chapters, a little over 61,000 words, and the final bit isn’t quite complete yet. However, I ...