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And How it Spawned a Campfire Talk, then a Trilogy
By Campfire Park
Writing a book is hard enough ...
But not as hard as trying to co-author a trilogy.
It all started with a half-hour talk
Especially when all you set out to do was a half-hour campfire talk. The occasion: It was the run-up to the 100th birthday of America's National Parks. The venue: a remote campground in the heart of south Florida's Big Cypress Swamp. The result: About a dozen people showed up. That didn't stop up from doing the talk about a dozen times, and eventually writing a book, then a trilogy and now this website. Did I say we? Sometimes (actually most of the time) I wondered where Rudi was.
Sequels are often misunderstood …
In part because they’re perceive derivative dependence on the original work.
And partly because – in the case of a trilogy:
They do not conclude the full story arch.
Not to worry: That’s what makes Boulder Ridge stand really stand out.
Is its odyssey of growth …
And sets the stage for the third (and final) book to come.
Well howdy folks, and I’m completely freaked out. And you know why. The fringe middle. The silent majority. Why are they so quiet?
— Buck Buckner
There’s the original campfire …
And then there’s Campfire Park.
The original campfire is where the campfire talk was conceived.
A couple of campfires later, that led to the
Three books later (and 6 years to be exact), that led to an impass:
How do we promote the trilogy of books?
The answer:
Campfire Park.
And so a website was born.
As for the original books, at this point they almost seem like an afterthought.
The campfire is always crackling and visitors are always welcome at Campfire Park
— Cowboy at the Campfire
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