Summertime and the Livin’ is Easy

July – August 2023

 


Where has all the summer gone? No doubt, living was easy, and the cotton fields were growing when Porgy and Bess was performed in Boston in 1936. But here on the Llano Estacado of Texas in 2023, the living wasn’t easy, and the summer was hot – too hot and too up and down,

So, being of sound mind and body, the Ft. Nichols clan packed our bags and fled to the Northeast and onward into Canada.

Hallelujah, where the average daily temperature was only about 66 degrees. And that is my honest and straightforward reason for not publishing a July Blog or Newsletter.

With August upon us, the time is here to kick-start some degree of normalcy, which for us means Books. In our early writing/publishing adventures, “The Third Dawn” refocused my writing genre from Mystery/Espionage to Religious Fiction. It was a joy to write and publish, but on afterthought, the book lacked depth…it needed more research, dialogue, and character building. So, after some time, we pulled the book off the market, and I returned to my original genres of what I had done for nearly fifty years; document many of my experiences of the criminal justice system into novels—Color of the Prism, Voices in the Fog, The Spy Among Us, Sweet Emily, Arrows of Allah, We Were Young Once…, and The Russian. We also wrote and published several short stories and two screenplays during that time.

In August 2023, the target focuses on publishing a revised edition of The Third Dawn. Stay tuned to my website, www.thomasjnichols.com, or the Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ThomasJNicholsAuthor/, Twitter (X) at (1) Thomas J. Nichols Author (@Tomas0274) / X (twitter.com)



Wear your reading glasses, find a comfortable chair, and sit back. Be ready to join our ARC

 Team (Advanced Readers Copy), where you can have a free eBook for the cost of only

 providing us with a brief review. We will be up and running in late September or early October.

 

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