Patreon Campaign!

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Hello everyone! I haven't posted on this blog in ages but I thought I'd let it be known that I've set up a Patreon account. If you enjoyed my books you can see what I've done since I finished the Outbreak series through the link above and visit my Patreon page here to donate if you want!If you donate I'm working on all kinds of fun little extras for your trouble. So far I've got a couple pictures and I'll be working on an exclusive short story specifically for my Patrons.
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Technical Difficulties and WAR DINOSAURS!!

Hey... Sorry but the new book, Outbreak: Long Road Back, isn't up on my Author's Page yet. However here's a link directly to the book on Amazon.

Also I've been kicking around an idea for a Fantasy novel again. I kind of liked where one of the many games of Pathfinder I was playing in (and...the game kinda...stalled...I guess?) could have been headed. I also found the campaign setting that my friend came up with really interesting. It was kind of a steampunkish...mid 1800's Western America...thing... With Elves and Orcs and all that stuff too. It was kinda strange and I was really looking forward to exploring the setting. 

Also I got to be the comedic relief after a fashion. I was playing a Half Elf bounty hunter that had lived out on the plains with other Elves most of her life and, as such, had a pretty poor command of the Common language. For instance: a wanted poster said "Please inquire within". My character marched into the sheriff's office, looked him straight in the eye and said "I have come to see the singing people about the money." and handed him the poster. Since I delivered that line absolutely serious and completely deadpan the entire group cracked up. 

I was looking forward to playing the character more because I also most likely would have gotten to utter my favorite line from the classic 2005 Nicolas Cage film Lord of War:

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As a quick aside a few years ago I actually managed to sell a semi automatic AK clone to a guy in a gun store that I didn't even work in by reciting Nicolas Cage's monologue praising that particular firearm.

 

And...well...if I wanted to go full on epic Fantasy of Epicness....there's always......

GODDAMN WAR DINOSAURS!!! SUCK IT, TOLKIEN!! TAKE YOUR LITTLE OLIPHAUNTS AND GO HOME!! WINNING!!!1!

Ferguson Riots and more Book News.

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Hello everyone! I hope this post finds you all healthy and happy and Ebola free. Anyways to business! First off thank you very much to Amazon user copyleft for the five star review on Outbreak: Boston's product page. I really can't even begin to tell you guys how much it means to me that you guys enjoy and appreciate my humble efforts. Thank you.
So...what's been going on lately? Well, I'm about 2/3 of the way through the first draft of the third and final book in the Outbreak series. I'm looking forward to seeing what you folks out there make of it and I really hope you like it. I may end up doing something on Smashwords so that I can sell on iBooks and the Nook as well though we'll have to see.
I'd like to talk for just a little bit about what's going on right now in this little suburb of St. Louis, Missouri here in the States. If anyone doesn't know here's the facts that I've able to gather so far. An unarmed eighteen year old black man was shot by a policeman. The man had apparently just come from roughing up a clerk at a convenience store a few blocks away and stealing some cigars (the policeman didn't know about this at the time however). So naturally a prayer vigil for the young man ended with looting and stuff being lit on fire.
I almost have to wonder if there wasn't a couple plants in the crowd. I can't prove anything but I'm curious as to how peaceful protests end up turning into violent crapstorms. I'm just talking out of my butt here but it does seem like there's lots of people who were awful keen to bust out all their high speed low drag kit and go play soldier. Gotta justify all those MRAPs and M4s to the taxpayers somehow, right? What better excuse than a genuine honest to God race riot?
And of course Al Sharpton had to show up. As a quick aside why don't people realize that people like Al Sharpton's income is directly dependent on how much they can make a certain segment of the population feel like a victim? Anyways...
Here's my takeaway from the whole affair: prepare prepare prepare. Have a good supply of food on hand and the means to cook it if the power goes out. Need a good cheap way to store some water? Try this out: get yourself a trash bag. A big one like 30 gallons or more. Then when your milk jugs get empty wash them out and leave them open on the windowsill for about 24 hours or so to kill any bacteria that might be in there. Then stash them in the trash bag and stuff them in the closet. In an emergency bust out your bag of milk jugs, go to the bathroom and fill them up from the tub. Then put the stopper in the tub and fill that up too as well as the sinks and anything else you can think of.
Get a gun and learn how to use it. Think fast, hot shot! Which stores in Ferguson aren't being looted? Too late! It's the ones with the groups of armed civilians standing out front! That's right. Apparently the police have pulled back basically leaving people on their own.

And here's the most important thing you can have. I mean primo A number one tippy top of the list can not go without here. That picture right there illustrates it perfectly. You need people you can trust to watch your back. You can have all the awesomesauce tacticool guns in the world and piles of MREs...but you're going to have to sleep sometime. One dude isn't that scary to a pack of looters. Six guys with ARs? Um...I'd really think that they're going to go hit that place up down the street.
Speaking of 'Tacticool' take a look at this guy.

I'm sure you've seen this picture. I just had to kind of shake my head. I mean look at this guy's rifle. How freakin' ridiculous. Okay dude. You're wearing body armor, helmet and all manner of kit in the summer in Missouri (it gets seriously hot there in the summer with like 300% humidity) with no water source. Then you're going to bolt like ten pounds of crap onto a six pound rifle. A bipod and a tripod? Really, dude? I would point and laugh at you if I saw you walking around with that. And that big ass scope too? Must be a lot of 900-1000 meter shots you're planning on taking you know...in a small town urban environment.

   

Remember nothing says Gangsta like cruising your bike through the lingerie section with your Red Ryder bb gun.        
Wait a minute! I think I know what all the looting's about! All these guys are just trying to find shirts! 

Anyways that's all I got for right now. Please click on the link at the top of the post to visit my Amazon author's page where you can find my two eBooks for sale. If you enjoy them please take a moment to post a review. Thanks! 

Back In The Saddle Again

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Hello, everybody! I hope everything is going well for you. Have to admit that things are going pretty good here. So! Right to business, right? 

So first thing's first. After a couple weeks of work I decided that I should stick to my guns so to speak and finish Outbreak: The Surge before I go ahead and start any other projects. It was an interesting change of pace for a little bit and I got a first chapter done on that Fantasy novel but it should wait until I'm done with SrA Frays and the rest. Or, depending on how you look at it, SrA Frays and the rest are done with me. They keep popping up in my thoughts now and again and even sometimes in my dreams (or nightmares if you like).
Anyways, good news is I'm about a third of the way through Outbreak: The Surge. I was projecting it to be about a hundred and fifty thousand words or so and right about now I'm sitting at around fifty one thousand. So pretty good so far considering.
And well I'm really looking forward to seeing how it ends as much as the rest of you. I have an idea of how it would shape up at the start and...I honestly have to say that I'm a bit saddened and disappointed in some ways and happy in others. The characters you, Dear Reader, and I have gotten attached to will change in this last bit of the story in some ways and in others they're the same scared tired kids we met at the start of the whole mess. 

Oh! Say, as long as I've got your attention for a moment here check this out! I made up a playlist on Spotify. Think of it as kind of a soundtrack to the books. It starts out following Frays in Iraq and just afterwards leading up to the events of Outbreak: Boston and through that to the end of Outbreak: The Surge. I add to it whenever I happen to ear a song that fits a certain mood or part in the story. For instance here's one of my favorites (in fact it appears twice, once by the original artist and once by a cover band that none the less rocks this tune's sock like somebody gave them the keys to a nuclear powered sock rocking machine.) 

Anyways, that's all I got for now. Please click on the link at the top of the page to find my books for your Amazon Kindle and if you have the time please take a minute and write a review. Thanks and enjoy!

Outbreak News... A New Book?

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Hello everybody! How are you? I hope you're having a good day or night...whatever time it is that you happen to be reading this. You get my point, right?
First off I'd like to thank Sharon Honyumptewa for the wonderful review you gave my first book, Outbreak: Boston on its Amazon page. You're awesome like back flippin' ninja monkeys popping totally sweet wheelies on flaming motorcycles. Seriously. You guys have no idea how much every positive review means to me. From the bottom of my heart thank each and every one of you that has taken the time to write a review.

That said I regret to say that as of a couple weeks ago I decided that I had to put the third book in the Outbreak series temporarily on hold. I found that, while I love the characters and the overall story, I was getting burned out both physically and creatively. I feel that if I continued I was just going to write a pile of rubbish just to get the series over and done with and I, as a writer, feel I owe my readers who plunk down their hard earned cashy money better than that. I don't like it when I feel an author does it (Stephen King I'm looking at you *shakes fist*) so I damn sure am not going to do it myself.

That said I thought I'd take a shot at switching genres for a little while. I thought I'd try a Fantasy novel for a change of pace and I think I've come up with a pretty interesting idea. So here's a synopsis:
The head of this Thief's Guild wants this item from a rich guy's house. Rather than paying for it like an honest man he instead sends one of his underbosses out to hire a crew of thieves to burgle the crap out of the guy's house. The deal is pretty simple: in addition to a small fee the crew can keep whatever they feel like swiping out of the guy's house. However everything in the guy's safe goes into the underboss's grubby mits.

Things get...kinda complicated... First off the item the boss wasn't in the safe but out on a table and one of the thieves pockets it. The boss is in no mood to argue semantics. And further complicating matters the man the thieves robbed is a closet black magician and he's not exactly best pleased that somebody rifled through his things.
So basically the crew has to figure out what exactly they swiped and why they want it so bad while dodging the boss's enforcers, crooked city watchmen and some freaking monsters that want to eat their faces.
As soon as I can work up a title and stuff I'll probably set up a Facebook page for the new book until if you're interested pop over to www.facebook.com/OutbreakBoston and give it a like. I tend to update that page way more than I take the time to write up another blog post.
So anyways that's all I got. Talk to you later!