“Oh, my goodness.”
“Sam, I hate it when you say something like that out loud and then expect me to beg to know what has you upset. Can’t you just go ahead and tell me?” Bill asked.
“I’m sorry. Lee stayed at the hanger rather long. I expected her to head home. She waited to leave until a couple of Red Tree soldiers showed up in full gear. They had duffels and some equipment cases like they aren’t just paying a visit and they appear to be putting cameras and sensors out.”
“You probably precipitated that,” Bill King speculated.
“Then why not right after my visit?” Sam asked.
“Fair point. But maybe they would have been lax without anybody nosing around. The way you described it the aircar was just a shell at that point. You said it was up on stands. I bet it didn’t have the pods mounted yet, did it?”
“No. I can’t say I ever saw them sitting around either,” Sam admitted.
“Well, in any case, now they have a functional vehicle, with whatever is in those pods to make it go,” Bill said. “You may assume the chassis you saw before is nothing special so it wasn’t worth guarding. Be happy you didn’t go snooping around and get caught by Red Tree’s Finest instead of an irate mechanic. I doubt they’d let you go as easily.”
“I can’t argue that. These boys looked hardcore. I’ve been trying to think how we could use this locally instead of reporting it home and everything I come up with is simply too dangerous.”
“Keep thinking that way. And warn me if you suddenly get crazy brave because I don’t want to be anywhere around when you start juggling this time bomb.”
“No, I won’t do anything stupid,” Sam promised. “It’s just frustrating. We’ve been here years and when we finally start getting some important intelligence everything has changed so it’s pretty much useless to us.”
I am looking forward to the next Family Law!
Thanks for snippet, looking forward to the book release, both Family Law and April series. These series and likewise Nathan Lowell are my got books to both read and listen to during these crazy times.
Any eta
Me to
I appreciate the snippet! Always love the little bits, they tode me over between books.
Thank you, Mac! Greatly appreciate even tiny snippets.
Good snippet!
I really like the Family Law series. Can’t wait for this one!
Family Law and April are my favorite currently running series. Anticipation is wrecking me!
108k words – patience is a virtue HAHAHAHAHA
We’ve been patient
Now give us our book!!! Please!
Working on it daily.
start throwing money at him.
Nice evil laugh
Another great teaser. Any ETA on FL#6 or the next April? Have just re-read “Paper or Plastic” and “Neither Here nor There” again, and they were just as much fun as the first time I read them! If you ever finish the April and FL sagas, I’d love to see sequels to either or both of those novels as well.
Mackey:
Am halfway through re-reading the April Series again, then will re-do Family Law Series (unless you release FL6 before i finish April Series)
Now I very much enjoy April and the Lee series but the spelling and syntax errors drive me crazy. Ai as editors really suck and know it will bet better with time, but i’ll be long dead by the time it is, unless You can direct me the life extension office ?
I’m doing the best I can. Make sure you have the latest versions by going in your Amazon account and checking content and devices for updates. You can spend a great deal for editing and get very little help. I’ve run everything through Grammarley but that isn’t perfect either. I’ll also note I get complaints that things are wrong that simply – aren’t. I’ve quoted style manuals to college professors who then say – ‘Well, I’ll be damned…I never knew that.”
Should Grammarley ever learn when to replace ‘hanger’ with ‘hangar’, the program will likely start to write reviews informed by it’s individual literary taste.
It is weak on technical things but it still helps if you are as grammatically impaired as I am.
Sorry to whine at you…after the last post
Amazon does not have the have the best Family Law as a preorder yet.
I don’t do preorders. I know authors love to do that to get a big ranking number on release. I rarely break into the top 100 in genre. I am not desperate to get each book out – quality will suffer. I’ve experienced that with authors I liked and when they had six novels planned ahead every three months they went downhill. I don’t need the stress of meeting a release date. It’s still fun and I don’t intend to kill that.
Mac,
Please pay no attention to the Nit pickers! New work is way way better than fixed ancient typeos to the gods of Nitpickerdom…
Just flip that rearview mirror up and roar down the road!
The stories are so good to me that I can switch off the “picker” part of my brain. Good stories are relaxing and enjoyable, yes I’m a fan.
I do my own auto correct as I read. It doesn’t seem to matter how careful an author is, mistakes always slip through. If it gets too bad, I just don’t read those authors any more. Mac, yours aren’t that bad. Eagerly awaiting the next in each series. (As a former math teacher I found out that if you are the one to make the mistake, it is hard to find it but if someone else looks at it, the mistake pops right out.)
Fixed hanger/hangar… Rolls eyes.
Grammarley is a flawed product that doesn’t know as much as it is hyped to know. Just check out reviews on youtube by Professors of English. There is much that Grammarley doesn’t know and that makes its recommendations limited to English experts that can evaluate its responses. It also doesn’t like passive tense but that doesn’t make it wrong.
Speaking of revisions – I was happy to see on my last read-through of the April series (book2?) that the scene with the Frenchmen had the “mustard lick” back in. I missed that and thought it was a shame it disappeared for a while. I think it really fits April’s mischievous nature and burgeoning flirtatiousness .
That got restored when I dumped my relationship with a certain publisher who objected to it.