Hello and Happy Early Friday (or Thursday),

I’m almost done with the second Owen Story novel and it’s pretty good if I say so myself; I’m having fun writing it, a lot of hold-your-breath-rides going on. I believe folks will like it, the few who may get to read it. I say this because I’m not going to do a lot of advertising, promotion, publicity whatever you want to call it for the second novel. Why not? You have to put in big efforts to promote your book and I don’t want to put in that effort on this one. It’s not that I’m lazy (I can be) so won’t do it or that it's not worth it, but I want to concentrate my energy on doing a very good job on the third and last novel in the trilogy.

Sidestep: I believe the second of a trilogy, whatever trilogy it is: books, movies, music, the second has to be the best if possible, because it’s the connection between 2 and 3 of course. The first should introduce the characters with a good story behind it; it doesn’t have to be a world shattering story but very good. Yet, the second novel must be fireworks—at least I believe—a great everything so that when the third and last novel comes out it should link all three and satisfy the entire story line. I have come to my theory from some of my favorite movies: the Lord of the Rings three and my all time favorite movie trilogy, the Godfather, so there you go.

I found that doing the promotion for the first novel did take a lot of time, energy and money and I can use all three to make the third novel exceptional. Also, folks have a lot of things on their mind just trying to survive these days I don’t want to bug them to buy and read my book. I’m going to do a touch of promotion through this blog, e-mails, post cards around the city and mailed to other parts of the world but that may be it. Folks who are interested have let me know so I’ll let them know and I’ll pass the book along to those who want it and to those I want to gift it to but continue to concentrate on the third.

If you’re interested look for the announcement of the second Owen Story soon and give it a try, but only if you want to; I'm not pushin it.

“The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything.” John Irving

If you have any comments or suggestions please e-mail me at my new address: mathewsla@hotmail.com

Until next time, God willing