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Post by Wes on Nov 6, 2016 18:28:10 GMT -5
The next book from Spearfish Lake Tales, Joe/Joan, is now available from the Spearfish Lake Tales Joe/Joan Store Page.Here's the synopsis: Joe is a truck driver who has driven the same cross-country route for over thirty years. He’s just your average Joe, bored and a little frustrated with his life, but with nothing better to look forward to. Then a bolt of lightning hits his truck; when he comes to, he’s eighteen again, it’s 1965 – and he discovers that he’s the twin sister he never had, Joan! While she has no idea of how this could have happened, she resolves to do things differently in this new life, see the world and have some fun along the way. From snow-swept mountaintops to war-torn jungles, from squalid third-world slums to sophisticated cities she manages to do just that. But in the end she’s faced with the same questions she’s had from the beginning, questions like “What happened?” “Why?” and “Why me?”"I know this might push the fantasy envelope a little. Then again, it might not . . . you'll have to read it to see what I mean! There are a total of forty-two chapters. You can preorder Joe/Joan for as little as $19.99 through the Spearfish Lake Tales Joe/Joan page. Preorders will be sent sometime on the afternoon of November 14, Eastern Standard Time. -- Wes
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Post by Boyd Percy on Nov 6, 2016 23:34:26 GMT -5
November 14, 2016 is a Monday. You usually release your pre-orders on Sundays. Is that still your intention?
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Post by Wes on Nov 7, 2016 9:06:24 GMT -5
Yes, the mailing will be Sunday.
-- Wes
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Post by Bob on Nov 7, 2016 9:39:05 GMT -5
Wow! A "doover"? From Wes‽ This should be interesting.
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Post by Sam on Nov 8, 2016 20:26:13 GMT -5
Wow! A "doover"? From Wes‽ This should be interesting. Indeed! I may have to add it to my page of do-overs!
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Post by Rob on Nov 9, 2016 17:17:42 GMT -5
By the synopsis it would not be a typical "do-over", but still should be interesting like all Wes' stories.
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Post by Boyd Percy on Nov 9, 2016 19:14:39 GMT -5
How would you define a "typical do-over"? I ask because I haven't read much science fiction fantasy since the early 70s. There has some discussion on the SOL forum about do-over type stories.
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Post by Rob on Nov 10, 2016 3:55:16 GMT -5
When I think of do-over stories (and what I called previously typical do over stories) are stories where a single person goes back in time, returning to their own body or at least a body of the same gender between 13 and 16 years of age - the same age they would be at that time.
Granted, there are some stories where the returned character is a little older than 16 or that changed gender. While I would disagree with it being called a do-over there is even a story where the pov character goes forward in time.
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Post by Boyd Percy on Nov 10, 2016 16:19:57 GMT -5
This story has come along at an opportune time. There's some people in the U.S. who would like to have a do-over take place about now. Whatever happens, it should be an interesting trip, both in real life and in Joe/Joan.
Thanks, Wes.
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Post by Boyd Percy on Nov 11, 2016 2:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by Ernest Bywater on Nov 12, 2016 0:21:13 GMT -5
Yes, the mailing will be Sunday. -- Wes It may seem that way to you, but it's never that way for me. Living in Australia I've always got a day's delay on the delivery. Them dang electrons sure get slowed right down trying to get across the Pacific Ocean. Must be all the water makes them waterlogged and hardly moving. Ernest
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Post by IanS on Nov 12, 2016 16:53:18 GMT -5
Arthur C Clarke invented the comunications satellite to keep the electrons dry. Now we just need to move the date line, maybe change the prime meridian from grenwich UK to spearfishlake MI
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