One of the questions I've gotten quite a bit over the years is "when is your next novel coming out?" varied as "why haven't you written more novels?"
The short answer is, I have! But when I finished PRO DEO, a novel about Renaissance Flanders, way back in 2007, it didn't find a publisher. At the time, self-publishing was in its infancy, and I had a full time job as a high school teacher, so I moved on to other things, and let the manuscript stay in the drawer.
Nowadays self-publishing has exploded, and I'm no longer tied to the demanding schedule of a high school teacher. I also have completed a few book length projects that haven't found homes with publishers. So I'm trying an experiment.
I don't want to go through the time and trouble of polishing and formatting a manuscript for self-publishing just for my vanity, but if there is actually an audience out there who wants to read these novels, I'm happy and flattered. I'm providing blurbs and sample pages for a couple of historical novels below. If you like what you read, and think you'd be interested in reading the whole novel, fill out the form and let me know. If I get 50 votes for an ebook version I'll make the novel available through Smashwords, like WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER. If I get 200 votes for a paper version I'll try to do a CreateSpace or similar print-on-demand version of the book.
Hope you enjoy the samples below!