Susan Cronk is the author of five published books, in addition to this novella. Her first book, a work of nonfiction, is Hezekiah Rasco: Child of Woe - Man of Sorrow, published in 2013. Her second book is the fictional story titled Brothers Such As These, also published in 2013. Her third book, a novella-length fiction e-book, is titled The Oppressor Project. In February of 2014, she published The Sheltering Country, in the suspense genre. Later that same year, she published her second nonfiction book, Where in the World Is Arkoe Missouri, detailing the history of a rural railroad town in Northwest Missouri. Among her titles soon to be released is Dying By Inches, a work of fiction based upon real-life events told to the author in a series of interviews between 2007 and 2014.