Status Updates From The Wolf of Winter

As a physical book, this one's seen some stuff. It's stamped with a Colorado used bookstore's address, was mailed from Nevada and is now in California. It has a few scuffs and creases, minor ink and water? coffee? stains. At least it isn't literally crumbling apart like some of my paperbacks from the same time period!

Exposition-heavy books like this take some getting used to, but I've come to truly appreciate them over the last few years. Many readers would scoff "show, don't tell" and reject it a few pages in. Their loss! There's been a blog post-like rant about that percolating in my head for a while now, but I get bored with myself whenever I start it. Some portion of it will make it into my review of this book, probably.

how has the main event mentioned in the summary literally not happened yet!!! how do you market the entire premise of your book based on something that occurs in the final fifty pages!!!

okay, so the problem is this 350 page book could have and should have started on page 216 and we would have missed absolutely nothing