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March 24, 2025
One week to publication!! (this is an exclamation Point heavy post – be Prepared.)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! One week to publication! Thank you to all of you who have pre-ordered the kindle edition of my book, because The Gardener and The Goddess is currently the #1 new release in the Inspirational Spiritual Fiction section on Amazon! You can still pre-order here! And still available until …
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March 18, 2025
The Gardener and The Goddess: Pre-orders And Free Review Copies Available Today!
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Less than two weeks to go until The Gardener and The Goddess is released upon the World! Pre-order here! Don’t want to wait until March 31st? Well with the help of my friends at Booksprout you can claim a free copy now! Claim your free copy right here! …
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March 11, 2025
The Tinkering Insomniac Stumbles Forward
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I continue preparations for publication of The Gardener and The Goddess. Release date remains Monday March 31st 2025. I was just working to get the book set up for pre-order, and ended up fixing a sentence. Okay, two sentences. Such changes mean a new updated format file for …
March 4, 2025
The Killer and The Dead: The Jaded Apprentice’s Report
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Spoiler alert: what follows below is an additional apprentice’s report upon the story told by Stahl in The Killer and The Dead. There are seven already present at the end of the novel. Yep, I included commentaries on my story at the end of the story: I thought …
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March 2, 2025
Links for free Copies of The Killer and The dead, And other very cool Dark Fantasy Novels
Hello my Friends and the occasional relative! I have been remiss in promoting my use of BookSirens to try to get more reviews for my book The Killer and The Dead, so belatedly I am letting you guys know about the book being available for download courtesy of my friends over at BookSirens. If you …
February 25, 2025
Publication date for The Gardener and The Goddess
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’m sorry I missed last’s weeks epistle. Very busy. I thought about posting an introduction to one of my new characters in the not at all fast fiction I am still working on starting, and then decided it just contained too much cool stuff I wasn’t ready to …
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February 11, 2025
Progress, Perfectionism as a failed landmine, and Amped up Porridge
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have a formatted version of my book. I have to do the page by page review for widows and orphans (if you know, you unfortunately know), and last bits of tidying up, hopefully without getting sucked into perfectionism minutiae. I was looking through the text and suddenly …
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February 4, 2025
Time Travel, Prep Work, and not Fighting my Brain
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have advanced along the road to publication. I’m getting my formatting down, maybe by the end of my next weekend off. I’m asking questions and getting useful answers, playing with rudimentary tools. I’m not trying to reinvent the formatting wheel here folks, something serviceable and stable will …
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January 28, 2025
Limbo
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have not made much progress this week. My day job has been rather more demanding recently, but that isn’t the excuse. Or if it is, it’s a bit lame. The book is ready. I have progressed with formatting, but not enough. And the fact is I’m not …
January 21, 2025
Surfeit of Advice
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! As regular readers may know, I have begun to learn more about some formal aspects of storytelling. I’m doing this to sharpen my understanding of what I do and why in writing novels, and to improve my presentation on the page. A bit late after completing 3 books …
