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Mid-month December blog

This mid-month blog is usually only for my Patreon group, along with many of the things I do. Please feel free to join me there for more interaction with my characters. That would be the ones I write and the ones who are in my membership. Just click here Last post of the year is

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Blog October 2025

How is it October? What happened to the year? It feels lost in all of the chaos of the world. Will it ever calm down? I feel like I’m on a freight train barreling down a mountain pass, at full speed and no breaks. I just can’t stand it. Feeling like you are holding onto […]

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February 1st Blog

The year of the dragon is gone. It was my year, and boy did things fly high and fast. Power was brought back into my life. Drastic moves were made. My whole life changed yet again. Now we go into the year of the snake, it is time to come home to the ground to […]

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A novella

This year I’m starting to explore KindleUnlimited. If you have unlimited please read Sitting Room. Also available: The first two books of the Spec in Time series. Curl up with a hot toddy and have a good read.

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November 2024 Blog

How is it November already? This blog is late yet again, for my Patreon peeps (they usually get this a week early). Yes, I know, I said this last month but real life happens. Right now, boxes are being packed, furniture is slowly disappearing, and everything feels disheveled. Luc

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September, 2024 Blog

Things, stuff, real life… They all make it difficult to work on words. When you have to get a new dishwasher and have to have service on your wash machine that may also need to be replaced, it all sucks. That is what my life has been like lately. But now, it is a long […]

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May 2024 blog

I did something completely different this month. I wrote a quick short story. It took me longer to post it into the Kindle Vella program than it did to write it. Okay, not really but it sure did feel like it. I know nothing of this program, it seems like a good spot to put […]

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January is done. Look out February!

January is done. Look out February! THE DOMES is now for sale! That’s one gigantic item checked off my list. YEP, book #2 has been freed into the world. I have struggled writing this month, it’s not that I’m doing nothing. My time has been used to get The Domes uploaded into all

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The Domes is Available

The Domes is now available – It’s time to read about your favorite Freaks and Geeks again. Spec and her team have so much to do in such a short time. Phase two must be completed quickly before the earth’s scheduled maintenance. Are you as excited as I am? Wow. That was easy…Oka

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SOON!

Hi, guess what? My next post here will give you the links to book 2 – The Domes. It is about to be released upon the multiverse. Yes, It is true. I’ll be doing some major upgrading of site pages by the end of the week. Spec is pleased that the work finally finished. She is also d

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Domes almost done!

The layout is all done. The page numbers worked on the third try, can you believe that? I can’t. Page numbers last time was nearly a three night project. Now, did I have to change my header because of that… but it turned out much better anyways. Sometimes limitations are a good t

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Word count Nov. 1

The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: The Domes, Book #2 of A Spec in Time series The Domes is through its editing! The totally useless and not trustworthy word count: At this point is:?? Now: This is what you are missing: Patreon Page Inception, Book #3 of A Spec i

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I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

I truly believe that there is a part of every author, in every character they write. That seems true as for how I’ve built mine. Ultimately, I think we cannot create a being without creating ourselves. Physically or mentally. It’s not because we are that egotistical, though it’s

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September 2023 wrap-up. Domes and more.

The Domes has now moved into the process of deep edits, and the proofing nazi. I need to say that I’m NOT, pulling my hair out this time. I am not concerned. It gets a little stressful because it is being done in small sections. Proofing during Harvesters was so stressful that I

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Done? Yes.

Outside of one math problem, a glossary, edit suggestions, proofing, and lay out. The Domes, book two of the Spec in Time Series is done.

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Did you know – you can help?

Would you like to see me go to the mountains for a week next month? This trip would be used to get a good start on book three, while book two is in final editing. If so, please join my Patreon page so you can have more updates on each books’ progress. Also, cute photos […]

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7-1-23 Update on The Domes – A Spec in Time

Blog for July 1st Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Maps, lunar maps to be specific have been filling my life. I’m working though some details that have been left blank and highlighted in yellow. Yellow means – hey, lookie here, you left something im

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The Domes update 6-01-23

This whole month has felt like a knife stabbing into my side. I have had a lot of downs and very few ups. I feel like a lot went bad or as I call it: sideways. I feel as if I have done nothing in the pages of this book. I also know that to […]

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The Domes update 5-01-23

Stage 1 (barfing) is done. Stage 2 (crafting) is well on its way… oh that’s the hard part. I have taken many of those rough sections of barf and have crafted them into much goodness. Subjects, raw thoughts, and ideas. Layouts of the important parts of the dialog have been expande

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The Domes update – April

It’s done. April fools. The Domes – the second book of the Spec in Time series – is actually more done than I thought it would be at this point. All of that aforementioned puke of ideas and possible dialog is done. What is amazing is that I already have around 80% of that word […

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Count those ‘its’

Why are we so very concerned with word count? Really, it is because no one wants to read War and Peace. This isn’t a rant against Tolstoy. I really liked Anna Karenina. I gave W&P a good go at it for about 10 years. I finally gave up after it had been moved to the […]

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Domes update for March 1st

It is March. It was a crazy February for the next book. Domes got a huge amount added to it. At this point, all of the parts and pieces are in place. All the extra notes have been removed, along with the stuff I mistakenly put in twice. Then there were the sections that I […]

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