Penny Freeman, Author

Every author has a certain “work in progress”—that pet project that sits in a virtual drawer on their hard drive or lurks on dusty and worn pages of multiple notebooks that have accumulated over the years. Even if it’s nothing but a jumble of ideas in an obscure corner in their brain, lurking in the shadows, they know it’s there, and every so often they glance over at it and tell it and the characters within to be patient. You’ll get around to it.

The problem is, the author wants to do their friends justice. They want to ensure the world outside their brains and that within come together in a perfect meeting of the minds—that their reader “gets” it. They’ve only got one shot to make a first impression. It has to be perfect. And, so they dither. Or, they work it . . . and rework it . . . and rework it some more.

In my case, Heirs of Westmark is that project. What started out as a ploy to stave off boredom grew into a multi-generational epic spanning decades, preceding the American Revolution and seeing Bonaparte safely deposited at St. Helena and beyond. Historical fiction is “my thing,” and so the world of Pierpont Durant and Cassandra Sterling is rather expansive. I share it beyond this portal: follow the link to explore the world of Westmark and accumulated material you will never find in the novels . . . when they’re at last good enough to release.