Exactly Three Months To Go… The challenge ends on my 76th birthday on November 10th. In case you have missed what I am doing, I am attempting to publish 75 major books (novels, collections, novellas, omnibus are all major books. You know, 20 books to 50K thinking…) Publishing for this challenge is getting it up on Bookfunnel because I need everything there I will need to make them wide, and a lot of these I want to use for Kickstarters, bundle exclusives (2 are together in an exclusive Storybundle.com right now) and a ton of other things like getting many of them to my Patreon backers. So Bookfunnel is my…

ABOUT WHERE I HAD HOPED TO BE… The challenge I set for myself from November 10th, 2025 until November 10th 2026 is to publish 75 major books in my 75th year. As expected, I had so many learning curves, my year started off slow, and we were still dealing with the last of the legal crap which has now cleared completely. And my goal was to get all my short fiction finally together and in ten-story collections. Organizing years of not being organized and finding hundreds and hundreds of short stories turned out to take most of the winter. But I got them all together in 50 collections (500 stories……

Just Having Fun… I did a page that I will put all the covers of the 75 major books I am going to do this year. Then I put on the first two collections and the five DETECTIVES COLLIDE books. I have eight other collections together, but got too tired playing with this to add them in. Nothing uploaded anywhere yet, but I am at 15 books in just over eight weeks. A good start since I tend to start slowly in challenges. I hope by the end of the month to really get firing on Smith’s Monthly as well, plus I need to finish up the last two Mary…