Final Layout - Approved

I read through my story very carefully making careful note of errors and formatting issues. First of all, I'm very pleased, but I found some more of my own errors and some from the production crew. The layout was nice. That is all I need to be worried about this round. The errors will be fixed later. It was a lot of work reading it again. I spent more time this week making sure the booksellers on the focus lists will receive what release information they want that is appropriate for their store. Everyone has been enthused about it and say they will stock it when it is available to order from their respective distributors.

I'm reading the book out loud to Vivian's sister Alexa, who lives in Canada. She is blind. We read a chapter a day. The longer ones take me 45 minutes to read. This morning, I read her the first hard part where Trevor tells Jamie goodbye for the last time. Jamie won't be back riding the train again. I faked it and kept my emotions together. I don't know why that particular event affects me the way it does. It's just that I've been through Forsyth, Montana. I can picture where the train would stop. I can see it all unfolding: the pickup waiting to take Jamie away, the goodbyes, the tears and the all aboard whistle from the train as it is ready to leave. Alexa said she didn't cry. I looked across to Vivian who was weeping as she does every time I read that part. On my Authors Den site one of the poem verses recites what I'm talking about. I hope after the readers get past some of the hard parts, they will enjoy it and see beyond some of the emotional events in the story.