In 2001, I began working on a novel I named “the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle.”
I followed that up 10 years later with “the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle.”
At that point I planned on making “Warble McGorkle” a trilogy. The first book dealt with the present, the second one saw the protagonist and others travel into the past, so the third and final entry would find them traveling into the future.
However, there were times I was not at all sure I would ever complete the trilogy. As regards Warble, I went through a decade-long stretch of writer’s block.
But very recently, in a blaze of inspiration, creativity, and productivity, I wrote the final volume, “Warble McGorkle’s Delusional Visions of Paradise.”
To tie the three books together, I revamped the first two slightly (updated portions that would probably not be understood by many people today, as some of the cultural references now seemed ancient or overly obscure, etc.) and created new covers for the first two books for visual/stylistic unity with the final book.
Here is the new cover for the first volume, the Wacky Misadventures of Warble McGorkle:
Here is the new cover for the second volume, the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle:
…and here is the cover of the just-finished third volume in the trilogy, Warble McGorkle’s Delusional Visions of Paradise:
The “Omnibus” containing the entire Warble McGorkle trilogy, all three of the books “under one roof” (cover) is now available, too. The following image shows all of the places visited in the three volumes. Red pushpins specify places from volume 1; Green pushpins signify volume 2 locations; Blue pushpins are from the third volume. Black means the location appears in all three volumes.
This is the combined map:
Since the United States locations are “scrunched together,” here is that map focusing solely on the “lower 48” (AlaskaSpeak):
Here is the Omnibus, front and back cover:
And here are the links for all of them on amazon:
the Wacky Adventures of Warble McGorkle Paperback
the Wacky Adventures of Warble McGorkle Kindle
the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle Paperback
the Zany Time Travels of Warble McGorkle Kindle
Warble McGorkle’s Delusional Visions of Paradise Paperback
Warble McGorkle’s Delusional Visions of Paradise Kindle