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Traveling Through History is released today!

I am excited to tell you that my new book, Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories, will be released today as an e-book on Amazon! I thought the paperback would be released today, but there have been some bumps in the road over the last several days. I hope the paperback will be available in a few days.

Photo of the cover of Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories, by Janet Morrison
Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories, by Janet Morrison

In a week or two, look for it at your favorite independent bookstore, such as Second Look Books in Harrisburg, NC. I will give shout-outs to other bookstores as they let me know they’ve ordered the book.

Here’s a list of the stories in Traveling Through History:

The Tailor’s Shears – A 1600s Scottish Story;

You Couldn’t Help But Like Bob – A Colonial Virginia Short Story;

To Run or Not to Run – George’s Story;

Making the Best of a Tragedy – Elizabeth Steele’s Story;

From Scotland to America – A 1762 Immigration Story;

Whom Can We Trust? – A Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Short Story;

Go fight, Johnny! – A Story of a Battle of King’s Mountain Veteran;

A Letter from Sharpsburg – An American Civil War Letter;

Slip Sliding Away – A Southern Appalachian Short Story;

A Plott Hound Called Buddy – A Great Depression Era Southern Appalachian Short Story;

Secrets of a Foster Child – Dignity in a Simple Suitcase;

Ghost of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse – An American Revolutionary War Ghost Story; and

If This House Could Talk – Recollections of an Old Farmhouse.

Do some of these story titles pique your interest? I certainly hope they do!

Each story is followed by Author’s Notes that give you such information as background information, what inspired the story, and what’s truth and what’s fiction.

Traveling Through History: A Collection of Historical Short Stories is available for your Kindle from Amazon.

Thank you for supporting my writing!

Janet

28 thoughts on “Traveling Through History is released today!”

  4. Thank you so much, Liz! I hope you will enjoy my stories. I’m not a polished writer like you. If my writing makes you cringe, please be honest with me and let me know, so I can learn to do better. I’m serious. I still have so much to learn about the craft.

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  5. Congratulations! Naturally the ones with a Scottish connection pique my interest! It doesn’t seem to be on Amazon UK yet – will it be available here?

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  7. Thank you! Yes, it will be, but I don’t know just when. IngramSpark was supposed to release the ebook and paperback today, but the paperback did not get released. IngramSpark will make it available in the UK on Amazon. The e-book might show up before the paperback. I haven’t been able to determine what the hold up is with the paperback. The IngramSpark computer system is going down for three hours tonight, but they were supposed to release my book before they did that. Their chat robot can’t answer my questions, so tomorrow it looks like I’ll have to request an appointment with someone. The last time I had to do that, I had to take a 3:00 a.m. (my time) call from a techy in England. I’m hoping for something a little more workable this time. LOL! Just when I think I have self-publishing figured out,… I find out I’m not as smart as I thought I was. I also self-published with Amazon but only here in the US. IngramSpark has worldwide distribution rights IF they ever get their act together! LOL! That said, thank you for your interest in my book. The first story in the book is one I originally wrote in 2001 while taking a fiction-writing course. I have edited it more than a few times since then. It is set in the 1600s when the Covenanters were being persecuted. Another story is very loosely based on my Morrison immigrant 4th-great-grandparents’ leaving Campbeltown and sailing off to Pennsylvania before eventually coming to North Carolina. It’s all fiction except for their names, the man they bought land from in NC, and the approximate year they left Scotland. I hope you’ll be able to get the book soon! I’m more than a little frustrated today that there has been an unexplained delay. (Sorry for all the details. I got carried away!)

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  10. I would love to have your feedback, Liz. I need all the honest, well-intended, constructive feedback I can get. My writing training consisted of one continuing ed course at Queens University of Charlotte in 2001, online courses along the way, how-to books, etc. I need all the help I can get as I get back to working on my novel. Thank you!

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  11. You’re welcome, Janet! I try hard to approach each piece of writing on its own terms. For example, if it’s written in a particular genre, how well does it meet genre conventions and expectations. I also look for perceived gaps between the writer’s intent for the reader experience and my own experience of reading the piece.

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  12. Sounds good, Liz. Just the kind of feedback I need, so I can more effectively write historical fiction after almost exclusively writing nonfiction. I haven’t found a suitable writers’ group since the one associated with Queens University at Charlotte disbanded after our mentor died more than 20 years ago.

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  16. Congratulations! Wishing you all the success in the world! Please, Janet, send me a synopsis, pictures and information on the book and I will publish it in LatinosUSA, the magazine I edit. All the best!

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  21. Thank you, Francisco. And Wow! I’ll get that info together and send it to you. Thank you! There’s been a last minute glitch regarding the release of the paperback. Looks like it won’t be on Amazon until Nov. 11th. I think I’d better wait until the paperback is available before we publicize it. What’s your deadline on the magazine?

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  22. Thank you, Edward. That story is pure fiction based on my 4th-great grandparents and that grandfather’s two brothers coming from Campbeltown, Scotland to Pennsylvania. It’s all fiction except their names and the name of the man in North Carolina they purchased land from. We have baptismal and marriage records from Scotland in the 1720, but we don’t know what year they came to America, where and how long they lived in Pennsylvania before coming to NC in the early 1760s. I had fun imagining what their journey was like. “You Couldn’t Help But Like Bob” is based on the genealogical research my sister and I did in Virginia about another of our immigrant ancestors from Ireland in the 1700s. He was forever in trouble with the law for things like playing cards on the Sabbath, so that one was fun to write, too! Thanks for your interest. I’m embarrassed that there has been a last minute glitch with the paperback. Now it looks like the paperback will finally be on Amazon on November 11. Fingers crossed! The e-book is on there.

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  25. I didn’t know! Yea!!!! I’m glad to know that IngramSpark came through on that for the e-book. Now, if I can just get them to tell me why they haven’t released the paperback here or anywhere else. The glamorous life of a writer! LOL! Thank you for letting me know it’s on Amazon UK! That’s the best news I’ve had today.

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  26. My embarrassment comes because the paperback and e-book were supposed to be released November 4. Last week I wrote letters to nine independent bookstores in NC to tell them it would be available for them on November 4. Oh well. Self-publishing is a learning experience.

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  27. Oh, I see now. Since they are independent bookstores, I’m sure they understand and have probably been through the same situation themselves. Still, I understand your frustration, especially with a project like this.

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