The AuthorGuy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve (Jan 1, 2025)
1st January 2025. Hello out there, Welcome back, and greetings on this very first day of the new year 2025. I hope it is a glorious one for you and those near and dear to you. This portends to be an exciting time for me in what is now my 11 th year in my author journey. We have a confirmed date of Tuesday, May 5 th , to launch the 2 nd Edition of my award-winning novel Blue by You through the vast marketing and sales infrastructure of Simon & Schuster. And as I am well along in the process with my publisher for my fifth novel, For the Love of Charley Chaplain , I’m hoping for its release by the Thanksgiving / Christmas holiday season at the end of this year. Another thing I’m hopeful of realizing is inspiration that will result in a Christmas-themed book I mentioned a few weeks ago. I’m confident it will happen – just need to be patient. In the meantime, I’m working away at crafting short stories for online publication and potentially inclusion in an anthology I’ll published ...