Make Words When There’s No Sun

Hey friends! I hope your weekend is off to a good start. Things are good enough up here in Minnesota. The weather is getting its winter on. Overcast, chilly temps, snow tomorrow. All in all, it’s the perfect kind of weekend to hit the writing hard. You know the saying, “Make hay when the sun shines?” It’s like that, but I’m making words, and there’s no sun. So more like, “Make words when there’s no sun.”

Yeah, I’m really not your guy for snappy proverbs. Anywho…

I’m hard at work on book 2 for my “Misadventures of a Paranormal Post-Relationship Personal Effects Repossession Specialist” series!

Poor August is definitely getting in over his head again. Dueling hag sisters, ghosts, a terrifying scarecrow, a drunken Satyr, a paranormal loan shark, and a nefarious plot involving the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (those guys are the WORST!)

Here’s the start of Chapter One-

As was often the case, I was running for my life.

Some might call that an exaggeration, an embellishment, a colorful overstating of what was happening for dramatic effect. In their opinion, I was probably running, sure, but for my life? Really? Would I actually die if whatever I was fleeing caught me, or was I maybe – just maybe – telling an above-average-height tale? Stretching that minnow into a northern pike? Whipping up a good, old-fashioned Minnesotan whopper? In their opinion, I was likely upping the stakes a smidge for the sake of a good story.

If someone decided to opine that I was taking a few liberties with the truth, good for them. Opinions are like assholes; everybody has one. That said, let me be perfectly clear: You can have all the opinions you want. It doesn’t change the fact that I was running. For. My. Life.

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While predicting when a book will be done is harder than forecasting the weather in Minnesota, I’m shooting for an April 2022 release. As long as there aren’t any beer shortages in the next few months, that should be doable.

If you haven’t read the first book in the series yet, you can get An Oracle Walks into a Bar on Amazon.