Or it can be the other way around. Days fly by with busywork
and odds and ends, but you wake up to think, My God! It’s still only February.
Sometimes it’s all slow. Or all fast.
More than a year has passed since “Waiting for a Comet,” the
first Jo Harper story made its debut, and nearly twelve months now since Jo’s
first four adventures were collected. Since then, four more stories have
appeared from Painted Pony Press, a complete unpublished tale waits in the
wings, an Early Days of Abby Drake story will appear this fall in an
anthology of stories, and the audio version of “Waiting for a Comet” will be
ready for the holidays.
It’s all been a dazzling roll through the calendar, and a
thundering 2016 looks to be close at hand.
Time, for Jo and Frog, while filled with more adventure,
passes more slowly. She turned 13 this year, and Frog turned 11. They might
stay at that age for a while. Or they might not – I honestly didn’t intend for
them to have birthdays. It just happened.
And for me, that’s an example of the most exciting aspect of
writing Jo Harper. Nothing has been planned. For the first time in my
experience writing fiction, I have a body of work that was not outlined, not
pre-figured. Each of these stories found me sitting down, writing into the
dark. When you read the first chapter and don’t know what’s going to happen
next, rest assured that I didn’t either.
Jo Harper has put a lot of fun back into my writing. I hope
this second volume of stories does the same for your reading.
Blurb:
Jo Harper rides the range again with Frog Beemer, Constable Abby Drake, McGee the dog, and a host of no good owlhoots. If you love rollicking old-fashioned adventure, grab this second volume of four novella-length stories.
In 1911, when trouble comes to Willowby, Wyoming, thirteen year-old Deputy Constable Jo Harper is usually on top of it. But trouble has a way of following Jo, and strangers aren't always what they seem.
When old friends prove to be enemies, and enemies might be friends, Jo relies on all her wits to seek justice.
And sometimes just to stay alive!
Jo Harper rides the range again with Frog Beemer, Constable Abby Drake, McGee the dog, and a host of no good owlhoots. If you love rollicking old-fashioned adventure, grab this second volume of four novella-length stories.
Richard Prosch's series about young Jo Harper and her friends, set in early 20th century Wyoming, just keeps getting better and better. — James J. Griffin, author of the Lone Star Ranger series
A part Mark Twain, part Rooster Cogburn, a dose of H.G. Wells... —Wayne D. Dundee
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