Coming Together
I’m pleased to announce that my new book, Together: Thoughts and Stories About Living in Community, is available from Nurturing Faith Books, the imprint of Good Faith Media. The book is a collection of essays drawn from a decade of blogging about what it means to live in community in all its different forms. Check back here for more details, and visit Good Faith Media to explore their other interesting titles.
Podcasts
The good folks at Good Faith Media recently interviewed me about my new book and writing in general. You can listen here: Good Faith Reads
I also was recently interviewed in a new podcast produced by The Clueless Gent, aka Michael O’Connor. In case you don’t know him, Michael is one of the regular book bloggers and reviewers featured at Lone Star Literary Life. He has reviewed both novels in my Port Aransas series, and in the podcast he digs a little deeper to find out some of the background of those books and what makes me tick as a writer. That conversation is here: The Clueless Gent Podcast.
More from Port A?
I’m always thinking about new tales to tell, whether short stories or longer works, and I’m starting to put words down on paper to see if anything is worth pursuing. Some readers have asked for more stories about Sam and his friends in Port Aransas. I love those folks too, but we’ve been out of touch and so we’ll just have to wait and see if they have more stories and news to share.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you might want to check out the Aransas Series, beginning with Aransas Morning and continuing with Aransas Evening.
Aransas Evening was the focus of a 10-day blog tour at Lone Star Literary Life in 2018. There were reviews, interviews, photos and giveaways.
Aransas Evening is the sequel to Aransas Morning published in September 2017. Both books are set in the Gulf Coast town of Port Aransas, Texas. Many readers have asked, “What happens next with Sam, Shelly, Dave, Allie, and Bo?” As it turns out, plenty happens including the arrival of a menacing new character: Hurricane Harvey.
Here is an excerpt: Harvey Approaches
We published Aransas Morning shortly after Hurricane Harvey hit the Texas Gulf Coast with historic, life-changing consequences. Aransas Evening followed a little more than a year after the storm. We’ve been donating 75% of the net proceeds from book sales to agencies helping with the recovery and rebuilding efforts, and that effort will continue. Both books are available online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble and at this web site. Visit these links for details:
Thanks for stopping by!
Jeff
Photo: Bluebonnets, Mount Calm, Texas