Craig Lancaster's Page

I'm the author of 600 Hours of Edward, a novel released in November 2009 by Riverbend Publishing. It's my debut novel, one that I did the principal writing on during National Novel Writing Month 2008.

Here's the back-cover copy:

Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house in a small city, where he keeps his distance from the outside world and the parents from whom he is largely estranged. For the most part, Edward sticks to things he can count on...and things he can count. But over the course of 25 days (or 600 hours, as Edward prefers to look at it) several events puncture the walls Edward has built around himself.

In the end, he faces a choice: Open his life to experience and deal with the joys and heartaches that come with it, or remain behind his closed door, a solitary soul.

I moved to Montana in 2006, and it was in many ways the completion of a circle: My people had lived here in Billings from the mid-'50s until the late '90s, and my parents met at a party up on the Rims. My move put our flag back in the ground. Long may it wave.

A newspaperman by trade, I've lived and worked all over the map: Texas, Alaska, back to Texas, Kentucky, Ohio, back to Alaska, California, back to Texas, Washington, back to California and now, finally, Montana. Believe it or not, I got here as quickly as I could.

I live in Billings with my wife, Angela, and two skittering dachshunds, Bodie and Zula.