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Words from Days 31-32 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Unwanted

The last section of this book was written over two days...but there was a LOT of time in between them and Day 30, where I switched to give a work-for-hire project the priority it needed. Days 31 and 32 occurred as I wound up that project and began to write a short story for a collection of dragon stories.Starting Words: 99,219Finishing Words: 102,918Words Written: 3,699Other Words: 11,178Other

This Year's 9th (& 4th NEW) Release- Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Collection

With the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series finally complete, I thought I'd gather all its titles together and release them as a single collection on all the platforms that made this a viable option. Today, the Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Collection makes its debut.What's it About?This collection brings together every book in the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series:  Origins, Blaedergil's Host, Arach, The

Words from Day 29-30 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Unwanted

Not a bad week of writing, but I've begun a second work-for-hire project and this story is going a little slower than I'd like.Starting Words: 92,114Finishing Words: 99,219Words Written: 7,105Other Words: 5,263Other Project/Project Aspects Advanced: 1Excerpt: in which Lewis finds a new 'friend' in the inter-planetary net:----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cover Reveal - Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Collection

 Mack 'n' Me: Odyssey Collection, the complete collection of books from the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series is scheduled to release in a few days' time. This is it's cover - as created by Moonchild Ljilja at Fantasy Book Designs.

Words from Days 25-28 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Unwanted

Endings... Why are they always so hard to write, or, in this case, to even get to. It appears there is more to this story than I thought.Starting Words: 86,106Finishing Words: 92,114Words Written: 6,008Other Words: 3,788Other Project/Project Aspects Advanced: 3Excerpt: in which Lewis and Oliver discover a second race of reptiloid:-------------------------------------------------------------------

A Favor Owed - The Writer Reads Chapter 1 of Mack 'n' Me: The Transporter's Favor

The latest installment in The Writer Reads series is now live on Youtube.Mack 'n' Me: The Transporter's Favor: in which Cutter is kidnapped off the Shady Marie by an old acquaintance calling in a favor. You can find it HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWEP4... art is by Moonchild Ljilja at Fantasy Book Design. And you can find the novel, here: https://books2read.com/u/38RLYL

Last Week in Review - April 11-18, 2021

Have you ever wondered what a writer does with their time? Or thought how lucky a writer was to just have to jot down a few words each day before getting some time off? Well, here's a really brief overview of what this writer's week looked like, last week. I'm pretty happy with it, in that it was fairly busy and quite productive. I completed a large work-for-hire project, finished the second book

Words from Days 22-24 of Writing - Lunar Wolves: The Unwanted

This part of the novel is always tricky and I struggled over the course of a week to hit the estimated word count I had set for the novel's completion...except it didn't happen...Starting Words: 80,645Finishing Words: 86,106    Words Written: 5,461Other Words: 0Other Project/Project Aspects Advanced: 2Excerpt: in which Lewis witnesses the lupari capture of the freighter known as the Daisy

A Stow-Away, a Retrieval, & a Boarding Party - Three First Chapters Read Aloud

 Like I said in the last post, I didn't start a Youtube channel with the idea of doing anything more than finding out how to make videos so I could help my youngest do that when they were old enough...and then I started having fun...and then I wondered if it was a place to share my writing...and what that might even look like......so I gave it a poke...a really little poke...to try it out.I'm not

Farming, Flipping & Escaping an Archelite Attack - Gameplay from the Week Just Gone

Some of you might think I spend all day writing...you know, 24/7...and that maybe I don't have a life. You could be right, but did you ever consider that this IS my life? That I LOVE to write?Well, it's true, but I also need down-time, and I need to give the writing part of my head time to work out plot kinks and new story, while the other part of my head is occupied with something else...and