Stuart Brannon's Final Shot by Stephen Bly

They had a passion for analyzing characters and storylines.

They also knew about golf swings and poker hands. But our sons possessed a part of his personality and thought process genes. Some of that I knew by coming alongside him all those years. For one thing, to incorporate Steve’s input throughout. I sensed the wisdom and God’s own purpose for including them. I tore into our writing books for some quick tips and printed out excerpts for the sons: Russell, Michael and Aaron. But I was determined that somehow we’d do this final task for him, as much his way as possible, with a story to make him proud. I had never written adult fiction alone, although I had authored children’s books and co-authored adult cozy mysteries with Steve.

Steve left us 7,000 words, a synopsis and some character names.

Meanwhile, our three sons said to me, “Let’s get that book done.”Ĭan a committee of four create fiction? We had the passion and a four-month deadline to find out. The next four months he spent more days in the hospital than out and he passed away June 9 th.ĭetermined to finish his list of projects, I hired a tree trimmer. His almost five-year battle with prostate cancer finally took its toll. The next day, he could hardly stand for more than a few minutes, breathing hard. In early January 2011 Steve resolved to do three jobs by summer: prune the pines in our yard re-roof the house complete his contracted 106 th novel, Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot.Ī few weeks later he played eighteen holes of golf. Then his fiction got so prolific that it consumed us both, to keep up with the process before and promotion afterward. We combined as a writing team for over thirty years. Then I got my husband Stephen Bly involved. Here’s Janet:ĬALLED TOGETHER, FORCED APART by Janet Chester Bly – Copyright © 2012: Deadline: Feb 8th, 11:59 pm central time. If each post gets 10 comments or more, three different winners will each get a book. Here’s the story, plus winner’s choice of three of Stephen’s novels: It’s Your Misfortune & None of My Own or Stuart Brannon’s Final Shot or The Lost Manuscript of Martin Taylor Harrison. His wife and sons decided to finish it for him.

Shannon here: When Western Romance author, Stephen Bly went to be with the Lord, he left an unfinished novel.

Stuart Brannon's Final Shot by Stephen Bly