Western Justice is a collaboration between authors Mark Reps, R Lawson Gamble and myself, Felix F. Giordano to publish three novellas in a single book. I met with Mark at the Western Writers of America annual convention in Billings Montana during June 2018. We ironed out the specifics and designed the expected format for the book. When R Lawson came on board we saw our project become a reality. Our intent is to offer the three novellas in one volume for free as a way to introduce new readers to our other books.
My novella, Missing in Montana the last novella in the set, was a remnant of two or three chapters of previous books that never migrated into The Jim Buchanan Novels. With a few character changes (a supporting character from The Killing Zone becoming the protagonist for Missing in Montana) an added back story, a plot that I felt would not only become a compelling story arc but lend itself to a sequel while also becoming a tie-in with the Jim Buchanan Novels timeline, I began the project in April 2018. Five months and 46,000 words later I finished the novella.
I plan to write and publish two successive novellas which will be part of the Jim Buchanan Series but will be called the Axe Killian Trilogy. Missing in Montana is the first novella and Murders at Middle Fork and The Coldfoot Killer are the projected working titles of the sequel and the last in the trilogy, respectively.
I have plans for Axe Killian to be the protagonist in future full-length novels, one taking place in Kauai, Hawaii, The Scarlet Max, and a second in Iceland in the towns of Akureyri and Mývatn, Dimmuborgir, Dark Fortress.
Above all, I am also working on additional Jim Buchanan Novels, Miracle of the Talking Stick, Incident at Dead River Junction, Mystery at Fort Benton, and Blood on the Rez.
No comments:
Post a Comment