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July 30, 2020
Fly, My Pretties!!!
Today, I have something happening that I rarely do — I actually don’t think this has ever happened to me before.
I have four book releases today!
One of these is an anthology appearance, my first with Riverdale Avenue Press. Under The Cape is a sexy superhero anthology edited by Rachel Kenley, and it was fun to work on.
My story in this anthology is Time for No Mercy, and yes, that’s a Doctor Horrible reference.
The other three all re-releases of short stories. I’m starting them out in Kindle U...
July 27, 2020
“I’d Like Some Dull Now…”
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So, can we stop living in interesting times now? I’d really like some dull now.
Granted, the whole “staying home and not interacting with people you don’t live with” thing is getting really old and boring. But the reasons that we’re doing that haven’t gone away, so we’re going to keep on staying home and not interacting as much as possible.
And, in my case, I’m going to keep focusing on writing. Because I know everything wil...
July 23, 2020
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
If you’ve been looking at my book page, or checking out my Amazon listing, you might have noticed that there are some books missing. Like… all of the Rebel Mage books, and Chains of Light, and everything else that was published by Forbidden Fiction/Enspire Publishing.
The reason for that is simple: after 8 years, four books, a few short stories, and a lot of good times, Forbidden Fiction and I have gone our separate ways.
It was a most amicable parting, and I’m sorry that I won’t get to work wi...
July 20, 2020
I Forgot the Title
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It’s Monday again, isn’t it? How did that happen?
Not much is happening at the moment. That I can talk about, at least. I have a new anthology coming out next week — Under the Cape is a look at sexy superheroes, brought to you by Riverdale Avenue Books. No cover art yet, but once I have it, I’ll post it. My short story is Time for No Mercy. Yes, that is a Doctor Horrible reference.
I finished the synopsis for John Zebedee an...
July 13, 2020
Monday, Monday…
And boy, is it being Monday-ish. It’s not even 11:00 here, and I’m already done!
At the moment, I’m working at the dining room table, waiting for the AC Service techs to show up to look over the air-conditioner. No trouble, just annual service. But having someone strange COMING TO OUR HOUSE AND COMING INSIDE THE HOUSE is pegging all the anxiety meters.
Then we have to leave the house, because going out to pick up a certain young man’s new glasses didn’t work on Friday — by the time we left the h...
July 6, 2020
(Insert Witty Title Here)
Maybe I’ll get back to that title. Or maybe not. That’s about the state of my brain this morning.
It’s been a long weekend. Not in a bad way, mind you. In a “it’s a holiday, so people around me are blowing things up.” kind of way. They’re still blowing thing up — I heard fireworks going off as I wrote this sentence, at 12:41 Eastern on Monday the 6th.
Florida tends to go all in on the fireworks, and for DAYS.
We did what everyone else in their right minds did — stayed in, had our own personal b...
June 29, 2020
Time Travel, The Hard Way.
Since we entered quarantine, my son has grown two inches.
Which means, that since we entered quarantine, my son has grown to be taller than his grandmother, who lives barely twenty minutes away, but hasn’t seen him since March because quarantine.
And this reminds me of a Spider Robinson story from the first Callahan book — Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon. The story is The Time Traveller, and is about Tom, a man who is locked in solitary confinement for ten years, and who comes out to a world he does...
June 22, 2020
Finished things and Things in Progress
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***Wings of AirHeir to the Firstborn, Book 4
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There’s a little of both today. A finished thing, and some things in progress.
John Zebedee and the Heir of Elfland (formerly Echoes of Light, formerly John Zebedee and the Elf-King’s Son) is DONE.
Sort of.
John and Ethriel have sort of moved into my skull, and there’s more to their story. So there will be a series of John Zebedee novella-length paranormal wes...
June 19, 2020
And That’s a Draft!
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And that’s the Wandrering Jew in the Wild West (which originally was John Zebedee and the Elf-King’s Son, changed to Echoes of Light, and which may change again, to John Zebedee and the Heir of Elfland). It came in a little under my original goal of 40K, but barring major edits, I think this is where it stops.
For now. John and his Ethriel aren’t done with me yet. There’s more story there.
So… I think I know what’s coming next in Patreon!
June 15, 2020
BangbangbangbangWHOMPWHOMPWHOMP!!!!
Today’s blog post is being brought to you by the roofers working on the house that backs up to mine. We had a pretty intense hailstorm down here a couple of weeks ago, and… well… damage was done. (Thankfully, our roof survived it pretty well. Neighboring houses? Not so much.)
How intense? This was a small hailstone.
In the fourteen years we’ve lived in this house, I’ve never seen hail like that. My car has a couple of good sized dents in the roof, but no windshield damage.
My office...
