Author David Taylor Black

The are actually a couple of reasons I stopped participating in Goodreads’ Reading Challenge.

First, and I hate to admit this, I couldn’t find how to add a second book after finishing my first. I know that’s kind of pathetic, but there you go. Really, though, a confusing interface shouldn’t be a part of any website in this day and age.

Second, I was too tempted to shy away from books that were longer because there was a number I knew I needed to reach. Reading five 100-page books is going to seem like more of an accomplishment than reading one 500-page book—not what reading is about.

The recent Goodreads Giveaway for Guilt is complete. Congratulations to the five winners! Each of the winners will be receiving a signed copy.

Thanks to all entrants!

This post is a response to a question posted on Goodreads.

Right now I’m working on Book 2 of the Guilt series. The as-yet-untitled book is scheduled to be released for summer of 2018. I don’t want to go into too much detail about the book, but I will say that the series continues with a focus and Dan and Susan.

This post is a response to a question posted on Goodreads.

In Hope Town. At least in the Bahamas. I was in the Bahamas on vacation, staying in Treasure Cay on Great Abaco (on the same island as Marsh Harbour, which is mentioned quite a bit in the book). We had taken the ferry to Hope Town and, while there, I saw the cholera cemetery that Dan sees and which inspires him to write his next book.

The thought for the story that resulted in Guilt, wasn’t instant though (it was for Dan in the book), but the sign and the cemetery—which really is almost nothing—stayed with me. Before long, the story of Dan and Cat and Susan and Ryan, etc. coalesced in my mind and I started to realize the book they were living.

The only thing I wish that I’d known when I was there was that I’d be writing a book about the settlement. I would have been more deliberate with my research.