Book number 8 is launched! 'EMP: Heading Home' is finished.

ASB | 08/25/2015 | ASB

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Just a bit of vain, personal joy today. On my ongoing journey of being a novelist, I am happy to have put out my 8th book (6th novel). My life goal is to have 100 books in print by the time I semi-retire, so I am only 92 short of the goal now.

This book, EMP: Heading Home, is the sequel to my novel EMP from last year. I heard from a lot of angry people about how, in the first book, they hated that David did not go to Chicago to get his wife and daughter and instead stayed in his parent's hometown to take care of them.

This book is about his attempt to find and rescue his family in a world left crippled by an EMP caused by a massive solar flare (a coronal mass ejection to be technical.)

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

38 months ago I put out my first novel and in the meantime I lost about 4 months due to some medical issues and 6 months having to work a more-than-full-time position to refill my cash tank in order to keep writing. So I feel fairly accomplished in getting out 7 more books in that time frame.

I am also very grateful that the books have been well received and each release builds my fan base.

A very big thank you to the members of Free Republic who have shown a lot of support along the way. You are the best!

[Wpin]

What was the name of your first book?

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

Where can we buy your books?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Bright Horizons was my first book, and is the first of the 'Bright Horizons' trilogy, with Eclipse and Mosar being the other books in the series.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

All of my books are on Amazon, and I write under the name Wilson Harp.

[StAntKnee]

Congratulations on the first novel, the sequence and the seven others.

Also for getting a positive response here at FR.

I just published my own novel but have been fearful of plugging it bc of the sometimes negative reaction to self-promotion.

Thumbs-up.

[StAntKnee]

Congratulations on the first novel, the sequence and the seven others.

Also for getting a positive response here at FR.

I just published my own novel but have been fearful of plugging it bc of the sometimes negative reaction to self-promotion.

Thumbs-up.

BTW, why no link to the book or your author page on Amazon?

[BBB333]

Now I can’t read EMP because I know David did not return to Chicago...

Just kidding you!

Congrats on your good work! I’ll have to check it out.

Best!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

It is frowned upon to add links to buy things on Freerepublic. I won’t wipe my muddy feet on Jim’s carpet that way. His house, his rules.

Congrats on your novel. What is the name and what is it about?

[jpsb]

Congratulations!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Just wanted to add the cover because I am so happy with how this turned out.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Thank you!

[fatima]

Nice.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Thank you. I am really thrilled with this cover and will be talking with the artist to do covers for future books as well as redo some of my older covers.

[StAntKnee]

The novel is Prison of the Soul about a teacher who gets fired from the public school system for manhandling a rape suspect on the campus, a kid he caught in the act. (Sound contemporary?) The only job he can get is teaching in a one-room school behind bars in the state's supermax for violent juvenile delinquents. More than the obvious hook, it's an exploration of that aspect of the human condition wherein we build our own prisons by self-imposed limitations and fears.

Thanks for asking, thereby giving me the opp to plug it without endangering my hide by adding a link. I hear you on that.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Sounds like a good story. Do you have it on e-book, paperback, or both?

[grobdriver]

BM

[treetopsandroofs]

“Bright Horizons was my first book, and is the first of the ‘Bright Horizons’ trilogy, with Eclipse and Mosar being the other books in the series.”

Thanks for the info, looks very interesting! I like to hold a book in my hands, so I’m going to try to wait until I don’t have to spend $13 for a paperback to do so.