In Shadows

After… two months of not posting… (blows the dust off the screen.)
On Azrael’s Wings is available for purchase. You can get it from a number of places.
The book has about fourteen new chapters, so those of you willing to buy a copy will have a bunch new material to read. Enjoy!

To the few of you who have emailed me in the last month, my apologies.  I’ve been somewhat busy here, and kept them safe in order to respond.  But my email program hiccuped yesterday and now they’re all gone!
Please, if you see this, drop me another email!

I’ve been fighting with a 60 gig hard drive upgrade for my iPod. (It’s won.) The first one was defective, the second one refuses to go into drive mode. Don’t fix what ain’t broke. It would have been nice to have the extra twenty gigs on my 40 gig 5th generation, […]

I’ve worked my way through the last two chapters of Orphan Maker. POV remains the same but I’ve corrected my original error. Loomis has spent years bein adviser, silently bringing about what she thinks needs doing for her people. My mistake was portraying her with sudden confidence and capability at the town meeting. Hence, I […]

1) If my supervisor is working day shift, I can guarantee I won’t get any writing done during the afternoon. Not because she’d stop me, but the office is a disaster with her ongoing projects. I have to clear my work space, then get out of it so she can finish her […]

Last night I got a paragraph in on Ulina Mokupuni, the collaboration. I also wrote about two hundred fifty words on a new scene for Iditarod, showing the conversation between Lainey Hughes and Scotch Fuller’s dad as she makes initial contact about the article she’s writing.
So far today I’ve transferred notes and twelve chapters […]

I’ve been cautious the last couple of weeks, but I think I can say I’m on my way back from my mental vacation. At least my muse has made herself available for a change. I’m beginning to feel the excitement of crafting or editing a storyline now. Thank gods!
A friend and I planned […]

It’s been awhile. Over two months since I’ve posted last. In deference to emails I’ve received from folks, I figured it’s about time I posted something here. I’m not wanting sympathy or anything — I’m a pretty happy camper these days, despite the lack of communication to you, faithful reader. So […]

After discussing the sheer size of the Iditarod novel with my publisher, I’ve decided to go ahead and begin edits of the manuscript for submission.  I expect to add an additional hundred to hundred and fifty pages to the monster as I beef up the romance.  I also plan on giving the main characters more […]

…of which I am now a paying member.
There’s a group of folks at work who have a ‘Lard Ass Club.’  Every so often they get together, have an official weigh-in, and pay their dues.  Thirty bucks.  I have three months to lose weight in any fashion I choose.  At the final weigh-in, I’ll get back […]

That’s what I’ve been doing the last two days.  On Azrael’s Wings sits at the publisher, so I had my Sanguire novel printed and bound last week.  I’ve gone through it, putting in my beta readers’ comments, and am now doing a line by line edit.
I’ve gotten about a third of the way through.
Next up […]

I have this ‘extension’ for Firefox called StumbleUpon. It gives me random websites that other people have found enjoyable. I guess it’s considered a social thing, I dunno. I don’t frequent the pages of other Stumblers; I just hit the Stumble! button on my browser window, and roam about the webverse.
The first […]

And some SERIOUS drooling here!  Good gods almighty!  I’d never go back to a computer again if I could have THIS baby!  Might take a bit for the video to download, but if you’re a hard core computer geek, it’s worth the wait!
Then there’s the World…  Looks mighty cool.  If I was a multibillionaire with […]

Wow… A whole dog race I didn’t even know existed!  (Speaking of which, Iditarod begins in thirty-seven days!)
Here’s a Damn Interesting article called The Association of the Dead by Gerry Matlack.   Seems in some countries the proper bribery of officials can get you pronounced dead, whereupon your relatives inherit your wordly goods.  It took […]

Here I sit at Coffee People, corner of SW Salmon and Park in Portland, Oregon.  It closes its doors on the twenty-ninth, so this is probably my last medium Velvet Hammer with whip to be had in the downtown area.  Ah, the bitter sweet memories (and I’m not talking the mocha…)
My best friend at the […]