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Patrick J. O'Connor I fixed it a day later when my wife pointed out that the cut-n-paste hadn't pasted as much as it cut. Sorry... Can't do that again for those titles for a couple more months... but will have another couple of my books (ten of them, in three series) up next month when I'll probably do a giveaway instead of a countdown...Thanks for asking...
Patrick J. O'Connor "If you want me, come and get me!" Dorian Gray said to the decrepit painting on his wall. Then the paint began to run....
Patrick J. O'Connor Anne McCaffrey's world of Pern. Unlike Auel's Ice Age, these stories are set a couple of millenia uptime, and relate to rediscovery of technology lost in the human diaspora throughout the Galaxy
Maybe I could help Lessa find a left-over time machine and we go visit Ayla in Ice Age Europe, eh?
Patrick J. O'Connor I just read Jean Auel's "The Shelters of Stone" and "The Land of Painted Caves." Still waiting for her to find her original tribe and see what happened to her Neanderthal/Cro-Magnon son... Another book seems likely, or at least necessary, to tie up these plot-lines...
Patrick J. O'Connor Have a pizza, of course! Note: I've managed to get my weight down from 307 lbs. to 213 (this morning) so, obviously, I don't have writer's block often--
Patrick J. O'Connor For an 'indie' writer? Not having a boss...
Patrick J. O'Connor In the words of my wife's Uncle Yascha: "Practice, practice, practice!" and respond to constructive criticism, by improving, of course...
Patrick J. O'Connor Getting ready to put a story called 'Complete Strangers' onto the Amazon Kindle platform, finishing touches almost done. It's a story related to the robots in the 'HaChii Commencement' series of books already published.

Finally got approval of the Copyright (COVID - slowed-down) and the book mentioned above is now available on Kindle eBooks...
Patrick J. O'Connor I started reading science fiction in grade school in the 1950's . Working my way through marriage and being a university dean, I didn't get much time to write, but now that I'm retired, I've reinvented myself in several directions related to my love of science fiction. Writing and costuming for sci-fi convention masquerades have been two of these...
Patrick J. O'Connor For 'Complete Strangers,' not released yet-- I was picturing what was left over from the 'Robo-pocalypse' at the middle of the book 'A Parting of the Ways,' and that got me going on a tale from that time-line.

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