It’s time to face facts. I am 65 years old. Given my family history, I have perhaps ten, at the outside fifteen, years left to write. Facing this reality I have made several decisions about the Any Tomorrow series.

In its latest iteration Any Tomorrow rings in at more than 730 pages. As an ebook this no problem, but as a paperback, that’s another thing entirely.

Most recently I published the trilogy in one volume as Any Tomorrow Complete and even included a bonus story, “1933”.

In April, 2018, however, I unpublished the trilogy in order to draw attention to Any Tomorrow Complete. In July of last year I unpublished Any Tomorrow Complete. I had wanted to publish Any Tomorrow Complete as a paperback, but even going through KDP, the cost for individual copies would be prohibitive, much too high for someone to take a chance on an author whose work they were unfamiliar with. Also, I felt that it just wasn’t viable to let the books sit there and that drastic changes needed to be made if anyone besides a handful of readers would ever be interested enough to buy my stories.

I didn’t need my masters degree for me to see that I had problems with both production and marketing. Foremost among them was that I didn’t have time to properly market my novel while I was working full time. Another issue was that I was never really satisfied that the backstories of the main characters had been fully explored. I also felt that there were some plot holes that needed filling in order to make the story flow. And finally, I have several other novels in the same universe waiting on this series to come to fruition before I can publish them.

So what I’ve decided to do is this. I will break Any Tomorrow down into a series of shorter independent novels built around each of the main characters. Those will provide the foundation for the final novel that brings everything together to complete the grand design for Any Tomorrow.

Completing Any Tomorrow will also lay the groundwork for a series of parallel and complementary stories just waiting in the wings.

By changing my strategy for production and marketing I should be able to both tell my story in a full and complete way and offer it in both ebook and hard copy formats at a reasonable price.

I am taking a chance here, trying to complete this task with the time I have left. It won’t be easy, but it is something I need to do. I have given these characters life and they demand that their stories be told. I am not ready to give up on them yet. I have a responsibility to tell their stories, and they provide me with a reason to keep keeping on. I am not prepared to consign myself to sitting around the living room, watching Family Feud, and waiting to die.

I do not need success, or riches, or fame. My desires are simple. I want to write the next page, and see what happens next.

©2020 Kevin Fraleigh