• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Space Travelers Bundle Going Away

    Last Few Hours…  Today (Thursday) is it!!! Sector Justice: A Seeders Universe novel is in this one. It stands completely alone. Basically a Star Trek like sf novel with a focus on cool space adventure, romance and some sex. Go figure. (grin) And it is a little longer than my normal novel these days. Kristine Kathryn Rusch put this bundle together and it’s a great bundle with some great books, stories, and writers. You can get it on Storybundle. All these books and anthologies full of stories are worth the read, folks. Just hours left. ————-  

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    A Prolific Problem

    I Spent Many Hours Today Looking For One of My Own Stories… Not kidding. You see, I write so many short stories, no chance I can even begin to remember a small number of them. But today I wanted to put together a brand new Poker Boy collection to premier in a new Storybundle coming out in two weeks. Kris has a brand new novella in it, never seen before as well. So this Storybundle will have Sorcery and Steam themed books in it and I remembered clearly writing a Poker Boy story where a goddess in fighting armor has to deal with Poker Boy. So I wanted that in…

  • Challenge

    Almost Normal

    Kris Gave Me A Pass on Killing Me… Because I wanted to bring home a new kitten. Cute 12 week old red-point Siamese. At first glance I thought it was a Birman, which we have been looking for. Close, very close in looks. But she gave me a pass at my attempt because I’m recovering from the nasty virus and not thinking clearly. (grin) So we still just have Cheeps (a Birman) and Gavin (a part Siamese). Pictures below. And another reason, Gavin, with his Siamese exposed, ran around the house the entire time I was sick yelling because a human had the bed. We do not need two opinionated…

  • Challenge

    My Wife Says I Am Funny When I Am Sick or Drunk

    Today, she says I was very funny… And I never had a drop of booze. But since she shared a virus with me, what more could I do? I will return tomorrow to the land of the living (or Tuesday,) so if you sent me something by email, I will get to it. But half the people who email me never read this blog. But at least I kept my blogging streak alive once again.

  • Challenge

    I Sort of Took a Day

    Decided To Take It Easy Today… So what is easy for me? Still got my 12,000 steps in, one mile of which was running at the health club. And still read a bunch of challenge stories, which is great fun. Grocery shopped and cooked a couple of meals for me and Kris, watched some television. Otherwise the day just sort of went by and now I am headed to get some sleep early, since this taking time off is so tiring. And yet again I got a filler blog done to keep this blogging streak alive.

  • Challenge,  Misc

    Couch Surfing…

    Took On A Whole New Meaning Tonight… When that earthquake hit tonight, the second one in two days, it was again a roller, so sitting on the couch felt like sitting on a surfboard in gentle waves. Up and down and up and down and lamps moving back and forth as the couch rolled up and down. To be honest, I felt a little motion sick after a bit. We are on the top floor of our tall building, so it was a little worse because of that, but everyone around town tonight on the news said it felt the same way. We are 130 or so miles from the…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Fun Day and A Bunch of Reading

    Fireworks Were Fun As Well… Kris and I started off the day by working some, then we headed out for a really nice lunch at the Wynn. You know you are eating quality when you can cut calamari easily with a fork and it almost melts in your mouth. Oh, my… Unlike where we lived for the last 23 years, Vegas is not a 4th of July Holiday destination. So streets were pretty calm. We got back from lunch and I headed to the gym for my run/walk. Then I went to work after a great dinner recording the first three videos for the Licensing Transition and getting them up.…

  • Challenge,  On Writing

    Making This Quick

    Internet Is Going and Coming… As is this web site for some reason. What, is the entire planet deciding to do upgrades and maintenance on a holiday night? But got to write something to keep my streak of blogs going. Saw the movie Yesterday with Kris. Wonderful all the way. I love Richard Curtis movies. Still dropping weight slowly, increasing walking distances, and writing. Going to be a writing and reading day tomorrow. Now going to send this before the entire online planet shuts down.

  • Challenge,  Misc

    We’ve All Been There…

    New Computer Day… And it seemed like such a good idea at the time this morning. I must have been short of sleep, because I don’t take drugs. And I don’t drink, at least at that time of the day. I bought the new computer, a big and powerful Mac about three months ago for work on the Make 100 Challenge I am doing. I loaded all the Adobe Suite onto it, loaded fonts, loaded the Microsoft office onto it, and did very little else with it, mostly doing some learning on InDesign and other small stuff. But I always intended to move it into the main position in my…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Holy Smokes… It Is July!

    July Workshops Are Starting… I had no idea how it got to be suddenly July. Do we need to send out a search party for June? Wow, that Licensing Expo and all the learning just took June and flashed it past for me. So anyhow, working on reading challenge stories and getting out stretch rewards to the wonderful backers of Kris’s Diving Series. And because I didn’t realize it was July already, I almost forgot to do the assignments for the June workshops tonight and start the July ones. Almost no one signed up in the July workshops, so if interested, lots of room, just like this time every year.…