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What is White Ops?

 White Ops is my first book, and therefore, it is a very long story just to detail how it became a novel that long.If you’ve followed my ravings online, the story of my writing career—and the story of my life— can be summed up in one phrase.“And then it spiraled.”White Ops started as fan fiction. It was going to be a short story to get something out of my brain.Fifteen months and six novels later

Reviews & Updates

 It’s been so long since I’ve updated you all on the miscellaneous things I’ve been doing, I haven’t even given you folks an update since October. October! Oy!First things first: Patreon. I have the first seven chapters of Honeymoon from Hell #1: The Neck Romancer, online.You can visit my Patreon here if you feel you must start reading this book right this minute.If you can wait for it to be

The Douglas Coleman Show w Nicole Fanning and Declan Finn

 Ugh. I need a new author photo. I have trouble even looking at that one.White OpsMy other books.

Sex and Violence

 [PG-13/ R. And, for the record, this is a completely amoral blog post—preaching morals gives me a headache and upsets my ulcer. So I’m not going to comment on “X was immoral.” This is a WRITING POST.]1. Sex. What is it good for?Were this a song parody, the next line would be “absolutely nothing.” But, given that I've had bad experiences with song parodies, I will forgo that.But, seriously, sex

Character Creation: Sean P Ryan

 Sean Patrick Ryan was my first creation. He was born sometime in 1998. Technically, he was part of a fan fiction I wrote… but back then, I didn’t know that fan fiction was a thing, and what little I knew of was basically “insert self into X TV episode” … which was always boring.But by the time I was done with the first draft of the White Ops saga, the story looked nothing like the TV show. I had

Declan Finn, Master of Darkness

 I love this title. It’s overblown and hilarious and I love it.

Politics Kills

One of the more entertaining emails I’ve gotten lately in response to the substack was “How dare you talk about politics with your readers!?”Long time readers of mine will eventually stop laughing.I’ve spent over a decade trying to avoid politics. Somehow, it never seems to work. Then again, as the saying goes, “Just because you’re not interested in politics does not mean that politics isn’t

Mildra the Monk Podcast

So I was on another podcast. This time, I had the embed link this time.Yay!So here… we … go. 

Happy New Year, I'm Back

I know I’ve been incommunicado for weeks now. Part of that is that I drove all the way to Ohio for Thanksgiving… then I drove back. Yes, that’s an 11 hour trip, and about 700 miles. One way.Then I promptly started updating my substack, and all but forgetting the blog.Since I’ve been back, I’ve done two podcasts. Here’s one: if only because I can’t embed the video. I’ve started work on my next

Cover reveal: Main Street DOA

My White Ops space opera is set in the 2360s. My main character, Sean Patrick Ryan, is different from Sean A.P. Ryan of It Was Only On Stun! and Pius.First, this is the original Sean Patrick Ryan. His temperament is more… even. He likes to read books. He doesn’t exercise an insane amount, but he’s 6’6,” he’s a tough sumbitch.But he’s a Ryan. Being forced to relax and have fun … isn’t in his