New Release and Confession Time

I have been very negligent in keeping the blog up recently.  Part has been because I was pushing and pushing hard to get the final version of Betrayal from Ashes ready for publication. Part was because of real life. Hopefully, I can now return to blogging on a regular basis. In the meantime, Betrayal from Ashesis now available for digital download on Amazon. The print version will be ready in 10…

That sound you heard

was me beating my head against the wall yesterday. After all the headaches and delays in getting the print version of Battle Flightout, I thought everything was taken care of. The print version was finally available. Sales for the digital version were looking good. Then I opened my email and found a very nice note from a reader in Germany letting me know that the interior of the e-book version…

Battle Flight Print Status Update 2

Well, after much hair pulling and inventive word use, the print version of Battle Flight is finally available.  Of course, this being me, nothing is perfect. Amazon hasn’t yet linked the print version with the e-book version. So I’m waiting for that to happen.

The other oddity was the blurb, which was a direct transfer using their own mechanism from the e-book page, lost all formatting. I know I…

Well, the print proof for Battle Flight arrived an hour or so ago and all is a go.

Finally.

There were a few hitches in the process. When I hit the “publish” button, it kept telling me to fix the highlighted error. Except there was no highlighted error. I checked each page of the set up. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Nothing showed.

So I tried publishing the print files again. Same message.

No, I wasn’t…

Release Day (Reblogged from MGC)

Okay, if there was ever any doubt I am mad, as in insane, these past few months should put those doubts to rest. I knew my production had been down the last year or so. I was still putting out books, but not at the rate I wanted to. So, when this year began, I decided to make a few changes to my routine to see if that changed. It took about six weeks for the changes to really kick in. When they…

On life, conflict, commitments and writing

To say life has been “interesting’ is putting it mildly. The last two weeks have not been anything like I planned. I’m still trying to roll with the punches of a couple of unexpected complications in my life. One of them should come into better focus later today — and that should give me a better idea on how to deal with it. That, in turn, will let me deal with the second complication, assuming…

Shatner’s Mic Drop Is Epic Comeback

I admit it. I’m not a huge William Shatner fan. In fact, I usually think of him as a caricature of himself these days. It is as if he took his over-acted Captain Kirk character and did his best to become him sans the spaceship. But I have to give it to him today. He not only spoke with eloquence, as well as one can on Twitter, about ALCS’s decision to remove Laura Ingalls Wilder’s name from the…

Oh man, the last two weeks or so have been busy and not always in a good way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again but, just when you think things are going well, life will through a wrench into things. That is exactly what happened and why the blog suddenly went dark. Between trying to make sure I had Fire from Ashesready for release and life, the blog was so far down the list of things to…