A Guest Post by David L. Faucheux

In 2017,  David L. Faucheux’s nonfiction book, Across Two Novembers: A Year In The Life Of A Blind Bibliophile, was published. Within the next month or so he is releasing an abridged version of the book. In the following post, David discusses the reasons why.

In order to explain why I abridged my book Across Two Novembers: A Year in the Life of a Blind Bibliophile, I must first explain why I wrote this book. I’ll borrow from the introduction here. I have long wanted to write and publish something, be it a historic novel, a young adult novel, or nonfiction. When, in November 2013, Dr. Katherine Schneider asked me to read and review her just published Occupying Aging, I conquered my usual reservations: Would I be a good reviewer? Would I be able to write something interesting and help her book sales? I dove in and came up…