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Coming along.

April 11 is at 121k words.
Looking back for continuity I found a couple small errors such as mixing Alpha Centauri with Proxima Centauri. I’ll fix those too.…


“You go ahead of me,” Barak said. “I want to keep an eye on you and help you if you have any trouble with the sliders. I’ll be behind you but to your right so when we try the thruster …


Book anchor –

I do this with an idea. I write enough of an intro to lock down the idea for later. Some of them I’ll likely never have time to get back to. The core idea in this one is what if …


An April 11 snippet

As requested another April 11 snippet. The book is past 66k words.
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Heather didn’t get many requests for a private audience from her landholders. They could speak to her after she held her weekly court, but most were too …


Print of April and Family Law

Well I have a new supposedly cleanly formatted print copy of April. The young man helping me has been through two moves weeks apart, two illnesses, and starting school. Can’t entirely fault him. Looked at every page carefully in preview …


April #11 a new snippet

Irwin appeared in their video exactly like the official North American release showed him, except he had on a heavy neck collar attached to a waist chain and another long heavy chain hanging to ankle shackles. A separate long chain …


A free short – too small to publish

Liars

“The first thing you have to remember is that Earthmen lie.”

“I’m sure we have very skilled negotiators who can deflect and limit their responses with the best of them,” Planetary Administrator Oolapon hissed.

The hiss had no emotional …


A snippet of April 11

In Northern California, Eileen was still in her first year with her new husband Victor Foy. He was a local and older than her. She was a refugee from Southern California, displaced by the bombardment of Vandenberg that Jeff mentioned …


Temporarily withdrew paper

I’m having difficulty with the paperback editions. You change one thing and it changes others unexpectedly. The young fellow helping me with this is tied up getting a place to live for a couple weeks so I’m just pulling them …


A snippet of April 11

Irwin Hall had a very productive meeting in Havana with a number of bankers and investment professionals from South America. None of them were interested in provoking the Giant to their north. Irwin assured them the habitat offering would be …


“Friends in the Stars” is uploaded

It will take Amazon a few hours for it to propagate in their system.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07V6VZPFC


Cleaning up my act

Both “April” and “Family Law” in Kindle have been run through Grammarly to correct much of the punctuation. This will be carried forward to all the books as I am able and the print editions in time. The newer print …


About the two new paperbacks…

I enabled Matchbook in Amazon. I thought it just automagically did that when you set up a print version, but there was a box I had to tick off. It isn’t in the forms you walk through to publish – …


Some more about Pam and Kirk…

Kirk Fuldheim got a hot chocolate in a thermo-mug and returned to his bunk. He’d had a bite of supper in the galley a couple hours ago. He suspected that the crew were under …


Thank you for your patience.

I’ve had a lot of e-mails asking why we were down. I’m still not sure exactly what I did to kill the site. I was trying to get it to show the stats on the site and did something it …


Feel terrible –

Clicked the wrong file and uploaded Family Law #1 in place of Family Law #3 while making some corrections.
I sold one copy but have no idea if that was before I fixed it. I can only hope whoever bought …


Another little teaser – FL5 – rough

“Master Leonardo, I overheard something of interest.” Atlas said. “The odd couple were running a new disk on the machine and sitting guarding it again. But they received a call on their phones. Born spoke with their patron and indicated …


Micro-Snippet of F.L. 5 – rough

-Gordon is the only Derf I’ve sat and talked with, and that in a group.”

Strangelove’s face changed, and it wasn’t a cute smirk with the corners curled up.

“OK, you flashed on something strong there, but I can’t read …


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