WRITE IN THE THICK OF THINGS: THE MAGICKE OUTHOUSE -- loosed upon the world! (and acknowledgements)

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

THE MAGICKE OUTHOUSE -- loosed upon the world! (and acknowledgements)

Seems like it's been a long time coming, but The Magicke Outhouse (Silverville Saga, #3) has officially hit the streets today.

It's available on Amazon in paperback and e-reader formats, at Barnes & Noble, from Raspberry Creek Books, and shipping to an expanding array of bookstores starting this week.

And don't forget to sign up for the Goodreads Giveaway, ending on Nov. 25! (Enter in the right-hand column next to this post on our blog, or click here.)

Upcoming Events

We're also featured at three blog sites this week and giving three readings in the region during the first two weeks of December.

Here's the itinerary for spots we're visiting over the next four weeks (click here for the full itinerary):

Nov. 20 -- Julie Leuk's blog, A Thought Grows
Nov. 20 -- Alex J. Cavanaugh's blog
Nov. 22 -- Ellie Garrat's blog

Dec. 5, 6:30 p.m. -- The Book Haven, 135 F Street, Salida, CO, United States 81201
Dec. 6, 5 p.m. -- The Book Worm, 211 N Main St, Gunnison, CO, United States 81230-2401
Dec. 11, 5:30 p.m. -- Savage Library West Wing, 600 N. Adams St, Gunnison, CO, United States 81231

Get a free "Breakfast" (autographed bookplate, that is)

For those who attend f2f readings, we'll be providing bookplates featuring "autographs" by Breakfast, the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig who was the inspiration for the character by the same name in the story.

Can't make one of these or future readings? No worries. Pick up a copy of the book, and we'd be happy to send you the bookplate. Just e-mail us at writeinthethick@gmail.com.

If you're long-distance, you can pick up a copy at one of these sites right now:
Amazon
Barnes & Nobe
Raspberry Creek Books

With a little help...

...from our friends.

The authors wish to recognize several individuals who have contributed to the final version of this novel. We want to thank Alex J. Cavanaugh, Charlie Craig, and Stacia Deutsch – all authors whose work we admire and on whom we relied for thoughtful comments. A special thanks to Julie Leuk, T.L. Livermore, and Zac Thompson, who each agreed to read earlier drafts of the novel and offered insightful suggestions to strengthen the story’s character development and overarching continuity. And finally, our warm thanks to Larry Meredith and the folks at Raspberry Creek Books, who make it possible for us to share the continuing stories of the Silverville Saga.

Thanks, all!

Kym-n-Mark

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American Colonies: The Settling of North America

American Colonies: The Settling of North America

by Alan Taylor

Over the past three years, the genealogy bug has really bitten me, and I've plunged into genealogical and genetic research that started putting together the pieces of who I came from. But when I'd learn that so-in-so moved from Virginia to North Carolina, and then the next generation split up to move on to Mississippi or Kentucky or Alabama, the documentation rarely told me why.

Enter Pulitzer Prize-winner Alan Taylor's American Colonies, the sort of historical nonfiction book I hoped could help explain what had inspired my assorted great-great grandparents to migrate to and among the various colonies and territories of British Colonial America. And wow, did I ever get what I bargained for.

Though not with what I expected. My doctorate had specialized in eighteenth-century American Studies, and I thought I had a pretty good handle on the times. But what Taylor's excellent and very readable prose provided was the disturbing exploitative nature of English colonial empire-building.

Taylor's opus is organized chronologically by colony (or territory), repeating the chronology for each colonial initiative, explaining the politics and socio-economic dynamics that existed on both sides of the Atlantic Pond. We think politics is complicated these days (and they are), but complexities faced by our ancestors equal ours in every way, and more.

Nonetheless, the underlying story is framed to explain the systematic displacement of indigenous populations and slave-driven economies fueling much of early colonial development. Taylor does this with copious statistics and first-hand accounts and justifications by our ancestors, but the author's tone is even and never descends into judgmental asides.

It felt like getting back into the classroom to learn a history that hasn't been sanitized by the victors, sobering but compelling.

Highly recommended.

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