Going the Extra Mile Is Out

The second book in the Idioms and Cliches series just published and is ready. Going the Extra Mile tells the story of Aaron Johnson, Jocelyn's grandson from A Bird in the Hand. On his return trip home to Western Virginia from taking his sister back to her husband in Trade, Tennessee, he's caught in a blizzard in the Appalachian Mountains, stumbles upon a remote cabin, and is rescued by the young lady inside. When her uncle turns up murdered, things get complicated.

Amazon Link - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09Q9489QK

James R. Cheatam, the narrator who produced Walnut Cake by Wylene, has produced the Audible version of the book, and it is also ready.  James did such a great job with Walnut Cake by Wylene that I was excited to have him narrate this book too. He lives in Iowa now, but he grew up in Georgia. He is a retired military veteran who has been deployed in four wars and traveled around the world. This gives him a wealth of experience with different accents and voices. He started narrating full-time in 2018 and says he absolutely loves it. Listeners love him too.

Although Going the Extra Mile is part of a series, it certainly can be read as a standalone. This is true for all my books, but even more so for this series. The books are about different generations in the same family, but they often skip a generation, and the same characters rarely extend to the other books, although they may be mentioned in them. The five books in the series will stretch from colonial days with A Bird in the Hand all the way to the stock market crash in 1929 in the last book, Taking Stock. They will publish quickly with the last book coming out in August. This is the most exciting series I've done in a long time, and I can't wait to see the books unfold.

Audible Link: https://www.audible.com/pd/Going-the-Extra-Mile-Audiobook/B09WY74MP6

The third book in the series, A Few Bumps in the Road, is also ready for preorder now. In it, Judith Johnson and her ten-year-old brother, Robbie, move from Western Virginia to Kansas where Judith becomes a mail-order bride. She is Aaron's daughter from Going the Extra Mile. We have just started to produce the Audible version, and Brad Leaf, who narrated Maneuvers and Buy the Book, will do this one. I'm loving what I've heard so far.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/Bumps-Road-Janice-Cole-Hopkins-ebook/dp/B09RQ2XBW9

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