Generated by All in One SEO Pro v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Ed Davis Books Author Ed Davis invites you on adventures, real and fictional ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [What Can We Do?](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/what-can-we-do/) - [Know the Code](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/know-the-code/) - A boxcar might be the last place you would expect to find fifteen rules to live by, yet those are exactly what the Knights of the Road drafted at their 1889... - [Whistle Stop Book Tour - Back Home Again](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-book-tour-back-home-again/) - The last leg of the The Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour took me from a bustling freight yard in Arizona to a historic freight car at the West County... - [Whistle Stop Rolls Into New Mexico](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-rolls-into-new-mexico/) - From a street fair in Las Cruces to the incomparable Wheels Museum in Albuquerque, booklovers, train lovers, and Old Town's beloved Treasure House Books made... - [Whistle Stop Book Tour – We’re on Our Way!](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-book-tour-were-on-our-way/) - Update from Salt Lake City. If you happen to live somewhere along the route, come by and say hello. 30 days, 15 cities, 6,500 miles. Should be quite a trip! - [A Day on the Whistle Stop Tour](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/a-day-on-the-whistle-stop-tour/) - While no two days on The Great American Whistle Stop Tour have been alike, they have all been memorable, and full of experiences that I wouldn't trade for... - [Whistle Stops on the Missouri River Runner](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stops-on-the-missouri-river-runner/) - Join me, and the crew of The Missouri River Runner, as we roll right across the heart of the heartland. This is Mark Twain country, Jim and Huck country... - [Whistle Stop Book Tour - Home on The Plains!](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-book-tour-home-on-the-plains/) - The “fly-over” states that make up the heartland of our country may seem invisible when seen from 30,000 feet, but as viewed from a rolling Amtrak train... - [Whistle Stop Book Tour - Denver](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-book-tour-denver/) - Denver was an American Mecca for The Knights of The Road, so I was thrilled to be able to spend several days here. On the radio, in print, in bookstores... - [Whistle Stop Book Tour - Over the Rockies](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/update-from-the-rails-crossing-the-rockies/) - Update while crossing the Rockies. If you happen to be somewhere along the route, come by and say hello. 30 days, 15 cities, 6,500 miles. So far quite a trip! - [Whistle Stop Tour - A Grand Send-off](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/whistle-stop-tour-a-grand-send-off/) - At Readers’ Books in Sonoma, California, my “home” bookstore, with its quiet corners for leisurely browsing and devoted book-loving staff - the tour began... - [Bernard Zakheim & Tractored Out](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/bernard-zakheim-tractored-out/) - Bernard was my friend and mentor when I first began to write over forty years ago. Every writer would be lucky to have such an influence... - [Writing with Jack London & Rolling on The River of Steel](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/writing-with-jack-london-rolling-on-the-river-of-steel/) - No, I didn’t actually get to write with Jack London recently, but I got to do the next best thing, spending an afternoon in the Author’s Circle... - [A Matter of Time— Breaks 1,000!](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/a-matter-of-time-breaks-1000/) - [Scotland's Fiona Mcvie](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/scotlands-fiona-mcvie/) - [SDC Closing Ceremony After 127 Years of Service](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/sdc-closing-ceremony-after-127-years-of-service/) - [Interview on Speakeasy](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/interview-on-speakeasy/) - [Jack London & Ed Davis on The Drooling Ward](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/jack-london-ed-davis-on-the-drooling-ward/) ## Pages - [Homepage](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/) - Author Ed Davis invites you on adventures, real and fictional. Kirkus Review calls it “. . . powerful; beautifully written, well-observed and effective.” - [Reviews](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/reviews/) - “Wow, what an ending!” —Don Bartletti, Pulitzer Prize Winner. “You will never see a passing freight train the same way again.” —Fran Braga Meininger. - [Awards and Recognitions](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/awards-and-recognitions/) - Awards and Recognitions for The Last Professional and other books by Ed Davis by appreciators of adventure and Americana a crossed the United States. - [Told In the Drooling Ward](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/told-in-the-drooling-ward/) - In 1914 Jack London wrote this largely overlooked short story about his neighbors down the hill, the residents of the Sonoma State Home for the Feeble-Minded. - [Order The Last Professional](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/order-the-last-professional/) - Order a print copy or audiobook of The Last Professional by Ed Davis, while you are there checkout the great promotional offers available through these vendors - [Road Stories](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/road-stories/) - If you are like me, some of your earliest and most indelible memories are of travel – of watching the dotted lines roll beneath the car wheels - [A Matter of Time](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/a-matter-of-time/) - 24 hours to live. 24 hours to write the story. November 29th, 2002, at 5AM, I sat down at my computer, intent on writing a 50,000 word novel in just 24 hours. - [In All Things](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/in-all-things/) - I was young, idealistic, and completely unprepared for the world I was about to enter; the world of Sonoma State Hospital. - [Blog](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/blog/) - Check out the what Ed Davis had been up to as as well as local interests and insights on writing. - [Contact](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/contact/) - Thanks for visiting my website, and please don’t hesitate to shoot me an email if you have any questions about my work. - [Great American Whistle Stop Book Tour - April 2022](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/great-american-whistle-stop-book-tour-april-2022/) - Heading out on the rails to see America and share my latest book THE LAST PROFESSIONAL. Coming to an independent bookstore near you. I hope you can join me. - [Great American Amtrak Book Tour - April 2022](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/great-american-amtrak-book-tour-april-2022/) - Heading out on the rails to see America and share my latest book THE LAST PROFESSIONAL. I hope you can join me. - [The Last Professional](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/the-last-professional/) - A haunted young man, an aging hobo, and a maniac – three characters hurtling toward a life-or-death climax among thundering freight trains - [The Last Professional Readers Guide](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/the-last-professional-readers-guide/) - THE LAST PROFESSIONAL is set against a backdrop that I know well from my time riding freight trains around the country in my youth. An older man, near the... - [Books](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/books/) - Come read what Kirkus Review calls “. . . powerful; beautifully written, well-observed and effective.” Ed Davis invites you on adventures, real and fictional. - [Exclusives](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/exclusives/) - [Subscribe](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/subscribe/) - [Meet Ed](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/meet-ed/) - Catch a speeding freight train, trek across the Andes, work the back wards of the country’s largest State Hospital, Ed puts you right in the thick of it. ## Tags - [Scottish Interview](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/tag/scottish-interview/) - [local color narrative](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/tag/local-color-narrative/) - [writing while traveling](https://www.eddavisbooks.com/tag/writing-while-traveling/)