![]() In many ways, reading Box’s books–and following his characters’ realistic progression–is like watching a long-running television show where the actors (especially the child actors) grow up right on camera.Īlso growing and expanding is Box’s fanbase. Only Lucy is still at home–though she’s graduating from high school and close to joining her two big sisters in the real world. ![]() Their daughters, who were young girls in Open Season, have all grown up now. They relocated (temporarily) several times, even buying a house at one point before moving back to the state-issued home they’ve occupied for most of the series. On top of that, Joe’s family expanded when he and his wife, Marybeth, welcomed foster daughter April into their home. Since Open Season, fans have seen Joe deal with multiple governors, sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, game wardens, father-in-laws, bosses, and–for a brief time–an entirely different job, when he worked as a ranch hand before Governor Rulon had him reinstated as a game warden. Nobody has developed their lead character, secondary characters, and their universe, better than Box. On top of advancing Joe’s badge number, Box has put on a clinic that other writers should study for how to best develop their series characters over multiple books. Since then, over the course of seventeen novels, Joe has worked all the way up to badge number twenty (there are fifty game wardens in Wyoming, each one is assigned a badge number based on their seniority), thanks to Bill Haley’s (who was badge number one) noted retirement in Off the Grid. Box first introduced readers to Joe Pickett, a newly hired Wyoming game warden, in the 2001 novel, Open Season.
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