Mark Joseph Young's Blog: The Ides of Mark, page 10

About Time

This is the fourth entry in this web log, but it is the big announcement, the unveiling: The Essential Guide to Time Travel: Temporal Anomalies & Replacement Theory is now on the market. As of today my own information page about it is here, and the publisher's page with links to various e-book formats is there. You can go directly to Amazon for either the paperback or Kindle editions. This is the book for which people have been asking for decades now, and I hope it is everything they dreamed.

In other news, my last entry failed to mention posts to the Christian Gamers Guild Bible Study group. The month of June covered John 12:26-47, plus Musings posts on whether there are indeed nine Hells, an example from Dog Actions, and a discussion of the Selfishness reflected in wanting to bring back someone who we believe is in heaven. There was a guest post in the middle of the month about what the Bible teaches about church planting.

Of course we continued posting chapters of Re Verse All, from 129 through 134, following James Beam's ascent and the journeys of Lauren Hastings and Tomiko Takano. There was a behind-the-writings post in there, mark Joseph "young" web log post #403: Versers Innovating, covering chapters 127 through 132. There were no other posts to the web log, although there will be tomorrow. Also, since both Faith in Play and RPG-ology appeared in the first half of the month, there were no new posts at the Christian Gamers Guild site from me (although there's a good one from Michael Garcia about ways to create variation among game characters).

I continue writing the next Multiverser novel, In Verse Proportion. As a side project over the past one and a half decades I've been working on a New Testament commentary series, which I use as the basis for the aforementioned Christian Gamers Guild Bible study. I started with Romans, went straight through to the end of Revelation, and am currently perhaps more than half way through the Gospels. I mention it because periodically I consider putting them in print, and I recently picked up the copy of Romans and started doing a read-through edit with that as a possible outcome. I am also thinking I should get back to the unfinished work on a Multiverser second edition, but I haven't done anything about it yet. These projects both have the twin problems, one that they are massive multi-volume efforts, and two that I have no idea how to proceed to publication, but it has me working on something.

I am not at all certain what I will write next, but I'm still keeping busy.

The Charm

This is the third entry in The Ides of Mark web log. I thus far have no evidence that anyone is even aware of its existence, but it's early days yet and perhaps there will be a response here--after all, this is what they say about the third time. If for you this is the first time, I am doing bi-monthly reports of my writing and publishing activity.

The big news is that I have been told my new book, The Essential Guide to Time Travel: Temporal Anomalies & Replacement Theory, will be published by the end of the month, so I will have links for that next time.

As to the first half of June, well, I mentioned that I start every month with a song, and this month it was in web log post #399: The Song "Look Around You" . Since that was also the first Tuesday of the month there was also a Christian Gamers Guild article, Faith in Play #43: Slavery . We also posted chapter 122 of Re Verse All , and at three chapters a week we today posted chapter 128, continuing stories of James Beam, Lauren Hastings, and Tomiko Takano. There was a behind-the-writings post for part of that, web log post #401: Characters Hiking .

Also, because the first was a Tuesday the fifteenth--today--is also a Tuesday, and the third Tuesday of the month, which means that RPG-ology #43: Muscle Memory makes its appearance.

Speaking of Tuesdays, we had a primary election in New Jersey, and I provided a quick peek at the gubernatorial race in web log post #400: New Jersey 2021 Primary , with a snapshot of the results in post #402: New Jersey 2021 Primary Results .

I installed a web cam with microphone, making it possible for me to participate in audio and video programs, so I might be coming to a podcast near you sometime. Work continues on the next novel, In Verse Proportion. I don't have another book in the works yet, but we'll get there, I'm sure.

And again, I'll be back at the end of the month telling you how to find your copy of The Essential Guide to Time Travel.

Establishing Patterns

Half a month ago I launched this web log with the first post, New Beginnings , in which I promised that I would attempt to post on the fifteenth and the last of each month. This thus is keeping that promise, as I come to tell you what I've been doing for the past fortnight plus.

I should mention that I maintain a web log at Patreon which provides a more detailed accounting of most of what I publish each week, as well as on what I'm working and what hindrances hit. This is to some degree a summary of that, with a few extras.

The Bible Study continues, covering John 12:14 through 12:25, with an extensive side discussion of Musings: Risk and another side piece, Musings: Right or Loved? . I have also published chapters 115 through 121 of the novel Re Verse All , including another behind-the-writings look at 115 through 120, web log post #397: Verser Challenges .

On the subject of mark Joseph "young" web log posts, someone asked why music was important in worship, and so I penned #396: Why Music Matters . Also, our New Jersey governor rolled back some, but not all, of the COVID restrictions, so I wrote #398: New 2021 Face Mask Rules in New Jersey to help clarify.

I have also mentioned that I write two monthly series for the Christian Gamers Guild. Last time I reported the publication of an entry in the Faith in Play series, and in the second half of the month I am reporting the release of RPG-ology #42: Who? which is a slightly refurbished republication of a Game Ideas Unlimited (my series from the early aughts at Gaming Outpost) of the same name.

I have been pushing forward on the fourth draft of The Essential Guide to Time Travel, and on the eighth Multiverser novel, projects keeping me rather occupied.

So if all goes to schedule, there will be another Ides of Mark post in fifteen days.

New Beginnings

The plan for this web log is that twice a month, at the end of the ides and the end of the month, I will recap the major publications, most of them electronic, since the previous entry. Since this is the first entry, I will be covering the first half of the month of May.

I begin every month with a song, publishing one of my songs. This month it was web log post #393: The Song "Why" . That's the twenty-fourth song published, but if you like it there are links to the previous twenty-three at the bottom of the page.

The next day there was a theological/political post, web log post #394: Unplanned . There are multiple ways to navigate the web log, if you're interested in more political, theological, or other entries there. I also published a chapter of the current novel, Re Verse All, which I am currently posting at the rate of three chapters per week and so far this month covered chapters 109 through 114. In connection with that, and possibly of interest to Goodreads readers, I post periodic behind-the-writings looks, the latest one yesterday, web log post #395: Character Obstacles . That has links to the current chapters and to previous behind-the-writings posts.

Twice a month, and the first and third Tuesdays, I publish an article on the Christian Gamers Guild. In the second half of the month it's in a series entitled RPG-ology, but the one covered in this fortnight is Faith in Play #42: Lucifer , a lesson from a controversial television show.

I also deliver a Bible study through the Christian Gamers Guild (I'm the chaplain), and so far this month we've covered John 12:4-12:13.; the study also includes some off-topic thoughts for the weekend, this month including Musings: Activity and Musings: Ego . I don't know whether you need to have a groups.io membership to access those posts.

In other news, a Goodreads reader reviewed my most recent book, Why I Believe, and I answered half a dozen Goodreads author questions. I've made some progress on my next book, The Essential Guide to Time Travel: Temporal Anomalies & Replacement Theory.

This was surprisingly long; we'll see what happens at the end of the month.