Dear Friends,

This is just to say that Tomazina's Folly (the sequel to Edmund Persuader) has posted on Amazon Kindle at this page. I have said enough by way of caveat and apologia concerning it in the previous blog entry, so I will forbear here.

Meanwhile Tales of Arcadia, a collection of short stories written quite some time ago, has been posted again, at this page. I’m gradually come to some peace with the fact that one’s writing changes as one grows, just as one’s beliefs and understanding take on more depth and scope with time. One would like one’s life work to present a message that is self-coherent in every respect, but that is impossible, or at least in my case. This is all a way of saying that it would be difficult for anyone to track the meaning of the changes in my interests between the writing of Tales of Arcadia and the writing of Tomazina’s Folly, though the changes themselves are quite obvious. There are, however, many underlying principles that are consistent in all of these published books; and I hope it will please kindred souls to encounter them again in various narrative guises.

I offer my respect and affection to all such souls, strangers though you be.

Stuart Shotwell