Harriet and I are finishing up the final draft of Pintsized Pioneers at Play:  Homemade Frontier Fun and Danger, the sequel to our award-winning Pintsized Pioneers:  Taming the Frontier, One Chore at a Time, which has turned out to be the most honored book in my writing career.

As we move into production on Pintsized Pioneers at Play, I thought I would check with our publishing/distributing firm IngramSpark—which is the primary distributor for independent publishers like our Bariso Press—on the sales of Pintsized Pioneers.  We were delighted to learn the first book in our Pintsized Pioneers series has been the No. 1 paperback best seller since the first of the year in Ingram Spark’s Young Adult/Nonfiction/History/United States/19th Century category.

We’re No. 1!!!  Apparently the reason I never reached that rarefied ranking before was that I didn’t have Harriet as a co-author!  I’ve certainly learned my lesson.  Now being No. 1 in the Young Adult/Nonfiction/History/United States/19th Century category is not like being atop the fantasy, zombie or Harry Potter categories.

Consequently, we won’t be spending our winters on the Riviera, but we can certainly afford a trip to the Monahans Sandhills if we get the whim!  The nice thing about seeing the spike in our sales is I can project when we’ll become million sellers.  Based on our sales rate, it appears we will sell our millionth book in April of 83,358 A.D.  So, we are planning a big shindig for the occasion, and are hereby inviting you to attend the celebration.

We’ve got a little time before you need to RSVP, but if you could let us know by November 4, 2025 when Pintsized Pioneers at Play is scheduled for release, we’ll put down a deposit on the coliseum and the catering.  Just e-mail us at prestonlewisauthor[at]gmail.com with your RSVP, and we’ll add you to the guest list.  We are looking forward to seeing everyone!  If you can’t wait that long to party, ask all your friends to buy the book, and we’ll move the date up a few months.  Until then, keep reading!