THE BOOK HAS BEEN PUBLISHED!

Just announcing that 8 years from the day I started walking (April 1, 2012) I have finally released my book. It’s so new it doesn’t come up in the search results yet, but this link:

The Argonaut Moon on Amazon

will take you to the paperback book’s page on Amazon. There will be an ebook as well; it just needs some formatting so should be up in a day or two.

I started the book when I finished the walk… there’s even a version in my computer in which the story actually ends on a rather dismal note, in August of 2012. But then, as any follower of my blog would know, I subsequently crossed the country on my motorcycle. That gave me an ending to the book, so I continued it. It took me a l-o-n-g time to write, re-write, edit, change. update, delete, rewrite, edit, edit and re-edit the book. My brilliant daughter, who is a digital designer, artist and typographer, designed the look of the book (fonts, cover art, layout, etc) and she helped me edit the text, AND we made the deadline, which I’d set as April 1. The book was uploaded March 31.

When I set the deadline (which was also 4/1/2019, 4/1/2018, etc) I didn’t know it would end up in the middle of this COVID-19 quarantine. That’s both good and bad. Bad, as books are not being given priority shipping by Amazon (food, toilet paper and other essentials for home-sequestered customers are) and bad because I can’t set up any local promotional events like a book signing, a talk, whatever… but good because there’s millions of people stuck at home, and what better way to pass the time than by reading a nice fat adventure story?

The Argonaut Moon is 422 pages long. (the paperback edition) A digital version is forthcoming within the week. I’m also having a limited number of hardback editions published, at my expense, which, once I approve the proof copy, will print within a couple weeks. Those are the ‘gift and thank you’ editions which I will sign and mail to the wonderful people who helped me, befriended me, let me sleep at their house, and of course family and close friends.

In writing the book, I used my blog, my photos, my GPS tracks, my Facebook posts and my crappy memory to recreate the story. I also did some research, so here and there are bits of interesting history about a town or area, the people who lived in the town, about the geography and weather I passed through, some science about motorcycling, some thoughts about walking, about life, about change, and about dreams.

I didn’t write the book thinking I’d have a best-seller. I wrote the book to preserve the story, and for something of me that my kids can have. It not only is a record of the walk and bike trip, but I put a lot of myself, my feelings, MY story in the book as well.

I hope if anyone still looks in on this, or used to, that they might like the book for themselves. It has FINALLY been published and is ready to buy! Enjoy!

The Argonaut Moon on Amazon