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There She Is!!!

I've been dying to share the images of Dee that were worked on for this book cover. She underwent a lot of changes to get where she is. At first we were going to make her shorter than Herod, but it...

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Well, that was fun.

So, here's your face reveal.

I ended up in the hospital for about 24 hours. I got released today. Lots of antibiotics, lots of fluids.

High pain tolerance actually screwed me over. I wa...

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Let It Snow

GOOD NEWS!

Monday the last of the Christmas Cards go out. Some of you had multiple accounts, or at least showed up multiple times in the database, so you might get two cards. I heard some of ...

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Aw Crap! - Bender Voice

Regretful, the window is closed for post-cards.

Anyway!

So, the signing of the post-cards is done. I've printed out the address list (why the window is now closed). This week we'll be a...

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How Writing Feels (Credit to Oglaf)

Anyway, several things for your first of the month briefing.

The Christmas cards are almost done being messaged and signed. A lot more people than I thought wanted the cards, so I might have ...

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Happy Harvest Holidays!

Well, wow, we've come a looong way.

So... we're in the end game now, Tinky-Winky. The real end game. The war against the Atrekna is virtually over. Simply mopup now. The guns need unloaded, c...

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OK, I Think It's Mostly Fixed

All right, after several days of tweaking and working on it, it SHOULD appear for everyone now.

The Christmas Card Benefit that is.

I've checked the 'benefits due" and quite a few peopl...

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Herod Dreams of SUDS Repair

We've got the cards, we're still trying to figure out a safe way to get them to everyone. My wife is currently sitting down and filling out 500 of them one at a time. (Her poor writing hand)

...

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Happy Spookytime!

There's my Halloween Peeper for this year!

In other news: The Christmas cards have shipped from the printer.

Other than that, well, that and the death of Crashrider, not much is going o...

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Need a Snickers?

Well, the cards are being printed. Brand new Peeper image, just for the cards.

Paperback book and hardback books will be available sometime next week.

Book Eight is in editing.

Fi...

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BOOK SEVEN! HOORAY!

We're just waiting for Amazon to release it.


In other news...


I'm not taking a 2 week vacation.

I'll be writing next week.

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess what's on the horizon.


Oh, and the picture for the Christmas cards has been drawn. An all new Peeper Christmas Picture.

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Contemplation

All right, so, I discussed it with the wife and then with the daughter that does the artwork.

There will be Peeper Christmas cards. So, I'll be figuring some things out so I can figure out ho...

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My Uncle Gave Me This Book!

Anyway, I hope everyone's doing good.

My wife and I are talking about sending you guys Christmas cards this year. Not sure what you all think of that.

Let me know if that's OK.

Pa...

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BEHOLD MINE LIGHT ATTACK TORCHSHIP!

A friend of mine passed me this and the first thing that went through my head was "So, they just wrapped a light attack fighter around a nCv Cannon, huh?"

But, it's the beginning of October, ...

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Still the End Game, Tinky Winky

So, we're still in the End Game.

Some of the characters finally make sense. Like Crashrunner and his chummers attempting to shut down the ansible for an entire galactic center, in complete op...

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First Phasic War - Artist's Representation

So, the big relaxation. First time I've relaxed in years.

It's been a weird month so far, with only doing 2 posts a week.

Funny thing is, I've got a bunch of ideas swirling around in my...

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Redoing Older Stuff

New covers for the older stuff. Just better quality, the font we were using, putting the correct data on the spine.

Now, I just gotta find an editor willing to work for what I can scavenge ou...

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Thank God You're Home It Was A Terrible Explosion

This is what greeted us when we got home from the fair. Those cans were pulled out of the pantry.

The one with white socks is the rescue. She's showing us how the explosion blew her over &nbs...

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Artists Representation

I just wanted to say hello to everyone today.

Today is a pretty good day. Another birthday this week, some doctor appointments, and stuff like that.

Now, as to the books.

As I've ...

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Inspiration

I was sitting on the front porch after deleting all of my social media and forum accounts but my Reddit account, a single Discord account, and this account, thinking over various things, when it hi...

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September/October News

The next three weeks will have only 2 chapters. Monday and Friday (So  you can get your safety briefing!). There's several birthdays in those  three weeks. Additionally, the wife is insis...

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And here we are...

So, officially retired.

It feels weird. Still adjusting my sleep schedule, hoping to get back to normal human schedules and not shifting from week to week by four hours one way or the other. ...

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The Future

Today is my last day at work. I'll be leaving in about an hour for my last shift. After 0900 I'll be taken off shift, turn in everything including my ID and my RFID's, turn in a few other little th...

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A Little Taste

That's the cover for Book VII (In it's concept draft form, NOT the final version).

And on other news: August 1st I will be retired. Which means, time to let my shoulders heal. No more driving...

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We Are Here

The Dee section surprised me. Honestly, I thought I was going to keep her hidden until the epilogues.

Instead, here she is.

Anyway, hope today is treating everyone well.

Take care...

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Lady Keena Approves

Artwork of Lady Keena I had done.

Anyway, I saw the poll. Saw that you all are pretty much fine with us carrying on how we've been carrying on and I'm pretty all right with that.

On the...

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Seriously, I'm Gonna Do It This Time

So, talking to some other authors, they all brought something up.

I'm not posting to this frequen...

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Back from the VA

I went to a walk-in VA mental health check in.

She says I'm doing OK. That what's happening is normal considering all the shocks and hits I've taken the last few months. There was a few more ...

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Nightly Thunderstorm.

Last month or so it's been nightly thunderstorms. Sometimes they don't start till 2AM, other times they start at like 9PM and last till 4AM.

I had my son-in-law trim a tree yesterday and ligh...

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