Lara & The Book

Months ago, Big Anklevich got it into his head to help me publish a real, physical book with my stories in it (Female Protagonist, still available HERE).  And he suggested I put reference to a couple more at the beginning, if it would help motivate me to get them out there.  Then he focused on his own work for a while, and released an absolutely astounding amount of material (no exaggeration, he probably put out as many stories in 2024 as I have in the first ten years I was publishing on Amazon).

But now, he's gone back to my drying well, to help me get my second physical book out, a collection of the first five "Lara & The Witch" stories ("Like A Good Neighbor," "You're In Good Hands," "Made Just For You," "The People We Touch," and "Here To Help"*).  He even created a couple of cool illustrations to put in there, like this one of a snowglobe with a witch in it from the end of "Made Just For You."

It took half the year to get the second one done, but here we are, through very little work of my own.  He helped me find a couple of inconsistencies (like Lara's age and eye color), and created this cover for me, which I am quite happy with:

I'm leaving this on here,  but Big noticed a weird colored line going through the title and immediately sent me a corrected version.  I hadn't noticed...and likely never would.

Still, I must have missed the line about beggars not getting to be choosers, because I asked for about a hundred changes to it, until not only Blocked my number, but took me off his family blog mailing list (something he never, ever does).

But here we are, a second physical book under my belt, and strangely, after sending the files to Amazon, they were ready and up for sale the same day, something that wasn't the case just this past summer.

So, "Lara & The Witch: Volume 1" is available to purchase on Kindle, in Paperback, and crazily, in Hardcover.  If you like it, there are more where that came from.