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It was a yucky weekend. Caught a head cold or something. General malaise and sneeziness for about 30 hours. Fine by Sunday afternoon, save that the Monday GM didn’t want me showing up with germs, so I stayed home and ran errands. And made a pie. You’ll get that recipe in November, just in time to make something more interesting than pumpkin and WAY EASY to do.

Film at 11.

Let’s see, finished Scattered Tribes 3, then went back and added about 15k to the end of Ollie 4 when the First Reader said that I ended too soon. When a reader tells you something is wrong, they are almost always right, so I fixed it.

Rotated into Kohahu 2 over the weekend. Planetary Romance, because I grew up on those in the way old days, back when SF was big and bright and exciting. (Lemme tell you, GrimDark just don’t work for me.)

Also in the process of working out a new Action-Thriller series character and stories. Got a couple of things in the trunk, but haven’t published them. Need to get far enough ahead on the SF side that I can take the time and generate a catalog over there, and might be close. Still need Scattered Tribes 4-5 (plus whatever) and Kohahu 3 (it’s a trilogy) as well as more Last Stand (#13 comes out in Boundary Shock next summer, and starts a Season Two long story arc I’m looking forward to.)

Hope y’all are enjoying Zach and the gang. Need to circle back and add more.

Also working on a Kickstarter for the January (?) Make 100 thing they do. Got 100 short stories. (Got almost 200, if I wanted to get crazy next year.) Need to edit them and organize them. If you’ve been around long enough, you’ve probably read ¾ of them.

What’s been your favorite story line so far, of all the stuff I’ve sent out with the monthly Patreon? Happy to look at extending. I have notes about all the old fantasy shorts I wrote once upon a time and extending those in my spare time. Or to fill in monthly spots here.

Dunno. I ride the surf here. You are allowed to have opinions.

8p

Chat more next week.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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