“When are you going to do a sequel to Other People’s Heroes?”

Not to sound like I get consistently mobbed by fans everywhere I go, but when people do ask me about my writing, a lot of them ask when I planned to do a sequel to my debut novel. The truth of the matter is, while I was writing it, I didn’t really plan to at all.

Oh, I intended to revist the world, and many of the characters, and I clearly left the ending open for future storylines, but I never intended to write a direct sequel. They way I often work is, I’ll get a craving to tell a certain type of story. An adventure. A children’s story. And then, when I get that craving, a story will creep into my mind to accompany it.

One day, I got a craving to write a road story – in the grandest Wizard of Oz tradition, I wanted to tell a story about a group of people on a journey, where the destination was secondary to the adventures they have and the characters they meet along the way. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that here, in this craving, I had my sequel.

What’s 14 Days of Asphalt about? Well, I won’t spoil it here for people who haven’t read the first book yet. Here’s what I can tell you without spoiling the first book: it’s an episodic novel. Almost like a series of short stories that combine to tell one meta-tale. I like it that way. It’s about two of our friends from OPH who get a calling to cross America for a very important purpose. Like Dorothy going down the Yellow Brick road, they will have adventures and meet strange people – some good, some evil, and some that will defy classification. It’s about two souls who aren’t exactly the same when they arrive as they were when they left.

And hopefully, it’s a lot of fun.

14 Days of Asphalt was originally serialized here at Evertime Realms over a period of about two years. Once the series was finished, I left it online for another ten months, finally taking it down on June 17, 2006. Hopefully, everyone who wanted to has read it by now. Don't worry, you'll get a chance to see it again... in the finished form... one way or another.