Mr. Was, published in 1996, was my first “young adult”
novel. Although not conceived as a novel for teens, when I finished writing the
book I discovered that the main character, Jack Lund, was a teenager for most
(but not all) of the story. This happened more or less by accident. Mr.
Was is a time travel story. It covers much
of Jack Lund’s life, and it happened that his experiences as a teen made for
better storytelling.
Since then, Mr. Was has been through several editions. At this time, it
is available in mass market paperback for $6.99. That is about to change. In a
few months, a new trade paperback (large format) edition of Mr. Was will become available for $8.99, replacing the
smaller mass market version. It will have a cool new cover design, and will
include several minor corrections to the original text.
The timing of this reissue
is fortuitous. The Obsidian Blade, the
first book in my sci-fi trilogy, The Klaatu Diskos, will be released in April, 2012. The
Obsidian Blade employs several of the
concepts first developed for Mr. Was,
and although it is not a “sequel” in the usual sense (the characters and
settings are all different), I nevertheless think of it as a continuation.
Some people say that Mr. Was is my best book. I do not agree, but I will say that during the writing process, Mr. Was surprised me in ways that none of my other books have.
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