Just Under 100,000

words, my next novel in the Summers Run series. The publisher is in a bit of a dilemma in categorizing this one. Is it a: Young Adult Young Adult Coming-of-Age A Literary Work An Intergenerational Novel Or should it be classified as General Fiction/Baseball? The issue arises because Return To Summers Run involves all the [...]

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New blog, updates

The website and blogs associated with this blog are available for your viewing. The main website anchor can be found at www.alongcountryroads.com  Blogs are now My Corner of Pennsylvania, http://mycornerofpa.blogspot.com and My Side of Montana, http://mysideofmontana.blogspot.com and our new effort, A Feel Good Novel at afeelgoodnovel.blogspot.com

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Summers Run is an e-book, available . . .

At Kobobooks.com , Smashwords.com , Barnes & Noble.com , Amazon.com , iUniverse.com , and enTourage.com  It continues to be well-received, appealing to those who like a “feel-good-at-the-end” novel. If you like Jan Karon’s Mitford Series and the Father Tim novels she’s written, you should like Summers Run: An American Boyhood. Jan Karon’s website is www.mitfordbooks.com Reviews and sample chapters of [...]

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Summers Run: An American Boyhood

Learn more about this feel-good-at-the-end novel by clicking on afeelgoodnovel.blogspot.com or www.alongcountryroads.com You can read excerpts, sample chapters, and reviews of this work set in today’s rural Pennsylvania.

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Summers Run on Websites

You can read reviews and learn more about Summers Run: An American Boyhood at afeelgoodnovel.blogspot.com and www.alongcountryroads.com

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Here are some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) you might find of interest about Summers Run . . . .   Is the setting an actual community? Drawn from the northwestern corner of rural Pennsylvania. Pymatuning County is as close as it gets. Are the characters taken from real life? They’re imaginary but pieced together from [...]

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A Sequel to Summers Run?

Yes, Virginia, Summers Run: An American Boyhood will be followed by Return To Summers Run in the spring of 2012. We’re at chapter 11 presently. Daisy and Claude find they must compromise and follow their Plans B or C in the months ahead. And the Panthers? Well, let’s say they will “endeavor to persevere.”

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Is this Shadeland?

Folks ask if this farm is Shadeland from Summers Run: An American Boyhood. Well, actually it might be closer to Summers Run Farm, home of Nathean and Albert Summers, two of the book’s principal characters. It is more closely related in my mind’s eye as the farmstead most like a traditional Pennsylvania farm. In fact, [...]

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Price reduced

Downloads of Summers Run: An American Boyhood at Smashwords.com are now $4.80, a 20 percent reduction from $6 first announced. Smashwords offers a variety of ebook formats including Java and HTML.

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Summers Run: An American Boyhood

is now available on Kindle, Amazon.com’s ebook reader.

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