As he approaches thirty, Randy faces new challenges and responsibilities. He's matured since college and has come to accept that many of his desires aren't possible. His first child is on the way, his grandfather's health is fading fast, and his sister is having family problems. It's clear that he will soon own Clark Construction as well as run it. Will the few years of preparation for these and new challenges be enough? How well will he meet any new problems when they arise?
Posting Starts June 11, 2012! Preorders to be shipped June 10, 2012.
Hannegan's Cove marks something of a departure for the Tales Of Spearfish Lake -- and a coming home. Many books in the Tales of Spearfish Lake series are dated from the late 1990s, and they cluster up and start to get intertwined with the Dawnwalker Cycle in about 2001. This one breaks away from all that and is set in 2004, largely with some familiar characters, mostly Randy and his family, along with some visits by some of his pals from the Dawnwalker books. It's something of a follow-on to Pulling Even, but I've decided, if somewhat arbitrarily, that future books involving Randy and his friends in Spearfish Lake are going to be Spearfish Lake Tales books, while those mostly involving the Arizona gang will be Dawnwalkers.
We'll be checking in on some of our old friends from time to time in Tales From Spearfish Lake after Hannegan's Cove, but we'll be meeting many new characters, too. Each of them has their own stories to tell. Just to give you a little teaser, Mark, Jackie, and Rocinante are involved in some of them.
In case you're wondering, there's one Dawnwalker left in the queue, with posting planned to begin late this year. There's the fuzzy possibility of at least another one out there, but it just hasn't come together yet.
My general plan for the next few years is to alternate Spearfish Lake Tales stories with non-Spearfish Lake ones. I'm still working on expanding the stock of the latter, but I'm well fixed on the former -- there are currently ten completed books in that series awaiting their turns, and I'm within a couple of chapters of making that eleven. Later in what I sometimes refer to as the "New Spearfish Lake" series there will be a subseries somewhat like what the Dawnwalkers are to the Spearfish Lake books, although the action mostly stays in Spearfish Lake. These books will bring us up into the early 2010s, with an epilogue in one of them that takes place in 2018. I'm sure there will be more to come along the way.
Just for the record, there's one more Bradford Exiles book in the queue, as well, but for plot and spoiler reasons I won't be posting it for a while. Two more, at least, are in the works but still not completed. There are others, including the rest of the Bullring series, plus some independents, so there's still going to be plenty of good reading to come for the next few years.
Thanks very much to everyone who's stuck with me over the years, and pass the word to your friends!
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