Sorry — I mean reading proof, for the forthcoming paperback edition of my book.  It’s sort of the same thing.

Meanwhile, a new customer review of the Kindle edition on Amazon:

Mr. Fonvielle’s characterizations in “Fourteen Western Stories” people a world that is uncannily life-like, yet they are drawn from the edges, the strange and fragile limits, of human experience, and they seem to hunger for an escape from shadow, for a return to times and days that, for them, seem to have never existed.

Characters drive these stories

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Sure, you’ve bought this as an e-book. You’ve probably sent a few copies out as gifts to your friends. But it’s just not the same as placing a real book version on your coffee table, to impress visitors, or reading a real book version in Starbucks, where it’s sure to start up conversations with attractive strangers.

Well, things are about to change — a hard copy version of the book will soon be available, thanks to the miracle of Amazon’s CreateSpace. If you can figure out how to format a text to the CreateSpace guidelines, and design a (somewhat) respectable cover on your own, Amazon will offer the book as a print-on-demand title, a real tome, with real pages you can flip through with your fingers!

It costs the author nothing but a little time (o. k., a lot of time), and will cost you only $6.99 — $6.99 to hold this amazing book in your hands, and show the world what kind of taste as a reader you have.

Most importantly, the standard trade-paperback size of 6 x 9 means it will fit in all standard saddlebags! Wherever you and your horse can go, this book can go!

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. . . Trav S. D. reviews my book Fourteen Western Stories:

Really enjoyable — Fonvielle’s prose is lean and spare, but laden with the occasional archaism or folk idiom that give it a ring of authenticity. Especially loved the dialogue, the characters are all faintly well-mannered in a way that is both characteristic of the west and the 19th century. Reminded me of Charles Portis. And the yarns themselves are all gripping, although some end kind of abruptly. Also a couple of the tales contain appalling incidents not for the easily shocked

If you don’t know know, Trav S. D. is the author of the best (and most entertaining) modern history of vaudeville — No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous. If you have even the vaguest interest in the subject, you’ll enjoy it immensely.

Also on Goodreads Shelley Dell writes of the book:

story telling is an art. Lloyd Fonvielle tells a great story.

. . . and Bryan Castañeda gives it a five-star rating.

I’m very grateful to them all for taking the time to rate and review the book.