Beau, I seem to remember reading something you wrote about "Passin' Through". As I recall, you wrote that your dad had at one point thought to make this a Tell Sackett story but changed his mind. That would have made it an obvious Sackett novel. However, it strikes me that it is still a Sackett story. The main thing that makes me think that it is still a Sackett novel takes place in Ch 23 when Matty reveals her last name to Passin' and tells him that she is a "Clinch Mountain Higgins". This exchange leads me to believe that the reader is being told that Matty knows that being a "Clinch Mountain Higgins" means something to Passin'. Most likely because she has recognized him to be a Sackett. What are your thoughts?
#2. "RE: PASSIN' THROUGH - QUESTION FOR" In response to Reply # 0
When Dad started writing what he called "The Blue Horse Story" he didn't know what it was going to turn into. He tried to nudge it in several different directions, one of them was as a Sackett, before it took off. He probably chose to not make it a Sackett because he didn't want to write a Sackett story that did nothing to further the series. With "Higgens" he was just having fun. There will be a Passin Through Lost Treasures Postscript edition our soon that will tell the whole story.
#4. "RE: PASSIN' THROUGH - QUESTION FOR" In response to Reply # 3
It's usually a year between my final draft and publication. With Lost Treasures it's longer and they don't come out in the order I write them but the order in which inventory is depleted of the old version. I never know what's going on unless I check daily ... and I've got more pressing things to do.
Writers always find the length of the manuscript to publication pipeline to be disconcerting. Sometimes you don't even remember what project it is anymore!
