What is productivity?

There is a huge amount of stupidity in this world and it is all I can do to keep from adding to it. So here is a nice picture of a bottle of Wyoming Whiskey to keep your ‘spirits’ up!

As I came across Nebraska toward Wyoming, I stopped at Cabela’s in Sidney, NE. I had to do a little research, but this is Cabela’s store number 1. That was cool and I had no idea how much stuff I needed there. Outside is a statue and monument to the Pony Express riders who came through this territory.

I couldn’t help but notice the similarity between this statue and the one of Sybil Ludington in Carmel, NY. Sybil was the sixteen year old daughter of Colonel Henry Ludington who was fighting the British in the Revolutionary War. On the night of April 26, 1777 Sybil Ludington rode her horse, Star, 40 miles through the night in Putnam County, New York to warn approximately 400 militiamen under the control of her father that British troops were planning to attack Danbury, Connecticut, where the Continental Army had a supply depot. On her way to gather her father’s troops, she warned the people of Danbury. It’s said that on the wild gallop, she also beat away a highwayman with a stick as she kept to her horse.

What really impresses me, though, is that according to the statue, unlike the Pony Express Rider immortalized in Peter Fillers’ statue, Sybil made her ride side-saddle. Now there’s some guts!

During the day of travel on Monday, I journeyed 180 miles to Laramie Wyoming and gained 5,000 feet in elevation as I topped the Sherman Mountains pass. I was greeted here by this lonesome pine.

Then I dropped fifteen hundred feet in ten miles to get into Laramie. I got fastened down and prepared for the night and a temperature drop to 20 with winds around 25 mph. I didn’t have to worry about the pipes freezing this time, though, as I ran out of water in my tank. Ah well. Bought ten gallons of water at the grocery store and have even managed to wash dishes on occasion!

I’m still searching for the perfect back cover picture of me for City Limits. I trimmed myself up all nice and neat and put on my new fedora from Cabela’s. Then snapped this selfie in Starbucks. Might work.

I then went over to the Coe Library on the UWyo campus where I presented the folks in the Chisum Collection Reading Room with copies of Devon Layne’s trilogy of Erotic Paranormal Romance Western Adventures. They already had the first in the library, but they were so much help when I visited in 2014 that I had to stop and thank them. They pulled out plat maps from 1868, city directories, histories of ranches and ranchers, and innumerable other resources. It took me a week in the library to do the research for these time travel novels.

And that brings me to City Limits.

I am very excited about this book and am currently looking for a venue in the greater Seattle area for my release party in June. Advance Review Copies will be available in limited number for both paperback and eBook in mid-May. I am actively looking for reviewers who have a forum—book blog, website, magazine, newspaper—to review the book by the release date. If you are, or know someone who is, a book reviewer, please let me know!

This is the biggest release I’ve had since The Gutenberg Rubric and I’m pretty darned stoked. In order to get the review copies ready, I also had to prepare and include fifteen hundred words from the beginning of the sequel, Wild Woods, so people would know there are more adventures of Gee yet to be had.

List Price: $15.00

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
Black & White on White paper
326 pages

Elder Road LLC
ISBN-13: 978-1939275790
ISBN-10: 1939275792

eBook ISBN-13: 978-1939275806
BISAC: Fiction / Literary

Gee Evars stumbled into Rosebud Falls on Independence Day just in time to rescue a toddler from the rushing torrent of the Rose River. And to lose his memory. In an attempt to make Rosebud Falls his home, Gee becomes a local hero and inadvertently leads a revolt that changes the balance of power in the town. But will he ever know who he really is?

Well, I have a client book I’m working on editing, so I should get some productive work done today. Until next time!