Introducing the Non-Book Book in The Homeplace Saga
Both here and in my HubPages writings, I have enjoyed sharing with you, my readers, the writing process as well as the end products in The Homeplace Saga series of family saga, historical fiction stories.
Later this month we will mark the 8th anniversary of the publication of the initial novel in The Homeplace Saga, “Back to the Homeplace.” [If you haven’t read it, it is new to you!] We than added two more novels, “The Homeplace Revisited” and “Christmas at the Homeplace,” along with two murder-mystery novellas, “Murder by the Homeplace” and “Murder, He Figured.” Further, the many original Founding short stories, of the nineteenth century, were compiled into the short-story collection, “American Centennial at the Homeplace: The Founding (1833-1876).” Stories following 1876 in Oak Springs continued on HubPages in many, many more short stories, that have been compiled into 6 ebooks, now, including “The Kings of Oak Springs,” in Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4, "McDonald Tales," and "Weston Wagons West: Levi Weston, L1-20 (1823-1874)".
Note: This paragraph was updated on March 5
“Christmas at the Homeplace” closed with the year-end holidays of 1996 in Oak Springs. The four titles I originally planned for the series included “The Homeplace Forever.” You may have noticed the cover image on the title page of the video book trailer for “Christmas at the Homeplace.” [Check it out, below right, scroll down, if you care to.] Between February 27, 2015, and May 6, 2016, on most Fridays, I made 56 posts here on this blog that continued the stories of the Bevins and related families in Oak Springs from January 1997 into February 1999 (including portions of the proposed ‘3 threats’ stories). Although I am not going to put them on Amazon or Lulu as a novel, novella or e-book, the 30 thousand (plus) words will be recognized here as “The Homeplace Forever” story, and will be the end of the story (almost) in 1999.
Added on March 5: I have now compiled a PDF file of the 56 posts in one document, episodes renumbered, and with redundant opening and closing material removed. If you'd like a copy, simply send me an email (billsmith2003 at gmail.com), subject The Homeplace Forever, and I will reply with the PDF attached, free.
“Almost” is found here:
Note: I have added Levi Weston stories (L-21 to L-31, so far) in Oak Springs in the 1870s, into the 1880s. Those may continue over on https://hubpages.com/@drbill-wml-smith - along with the other Weston Wagon West stories tied to my personal ancestors stories.
Happy Reading!! ;-)
