I am pleased to announce that my novel Prodigies, which won the 2022 Margaret Laurence Prize for Fiction in the Manitoba Book Awards, will be published in the fall of 2025 in a new softcover and ebook edition by the Hat Creek imprint of Roan & Weatherford Publishing Associates.
And not only that: the sequel to Prodigies (currently titled The Ghost of Cheyenne) is currently scheduled for fall of 2026.
Prodigies was originally published in 2021 in a hardcover edition by Five Star Publishing, a division of Cengage/Gale. When Cengage/Gale announced in 2023 that they were pulling back from publishing new books, in order to focus on their core business of large-print editions of existing books, that left my sequel to Prodigies an orphan.
A few years of searching led eventually to Arkansas-based Roan & Weatherford, which has several imprints specializing in crime/thriller fiction, science fiction/fantasy, romance, non-fiction and, in the case of Hat Creek, traditional, modern and crossover westerns.
Roan & Weatherford is interested in writers who have a series in mind and Prodigies was written in a manner that left the door open for a sequel — or two or three. They also like publishing ebook editions, which will come as good news to friends who wanted to read Prodigies on their digital device.
Perusing other offerings from the Hat Creek imprint confirms that I’ve found a great new home for Daniel, Lily, Lincoln and the other characters who traversed late-1870s America in Prodigies. I hope you’ll saddle up and come along for the ride.