Perhaps you read part of The Hacker, or none at all, here are links to all eight parts.

The story is about Terry Gates, a side character from the other Broken Path novels (available on Amazon, here). He is introduced in the first book as a nerdy guy, but he has some hidden skills. He doesn’t really have much of a part in book two, but comes back in book three.
This is his story between the events of the first two books and the third. There is plenty of intrigue and excitement in Terry’s life.

Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight

Don’t forget, Book Three, You Don’t Know Jack, is out Friday. You can purchase it for Amazon Kindle now, with delivery on Friday February 14th, 2020 to your Kindle device. Here is the ink on Amazon. It is priced at only $2.99 on Kindle.

I have a couple of things up my sleeve, bookwise…

To start with, I have finished a draft of book three, You Don’t Know Jack. It has been out to a couple of my beta readers and I have done the first few rounds of corrections. I’ll be going through and editing again in the next couple of weeks. Look for it to hit Amazon in mid-February.

After I get that launched, I have book four mostly written, but it needs work, too. It is in the rough draft stage.

But before I get too much further with that one, I have a couple of other things I would like to do…
To start with, I have over a thousand real estate blog posts. I plan on compiling a book from those. It will also go to Kindle, and might also make it to print. I will be going through the posts, compiling them and updating them for the current market.
Among the things I want to tackle is some honest talk about iBuyers and other new “disruptors” in the real estate market.

Further out still on the horizon is a book on taking better pictures. One of the things I do is volunteer with Scouts, BSA. I am adding “Merit Badge Counselor” to my Scouting roles and while putting together classes for that, I will likely build out the framework for a book on that.
But, like I said, that one is well out on the horizon. I have to be ready to teach the class at the end of the month, but the book will be a while after that.

On the other side of the horizon there are a couple more books (I think they might be books… right now they are little more than idea sketches) in the fiction arena. There is another one related to the Broken Path series, specifically with Gunny Grafton, and then another that is not related. We’ll see what comes of those. Stay tuned.

The winners are the ones that show up.

That is a simple truth I’ve seen in action time after time. Back when I competed in SCCA Autocross competition (speeding in parking lots… legally), I ran across a lot of people that were going to race as soon as their car was “ready,” but their car was never “ready” to race. It wasn’t that it wasn’t fast, or didn’t work. Most of those were cars driven to work every day… ut there was always another part to buy and another way to tweak it.

It wasn’t ready to use.

I also have spent a lot of time 4wheeling. My Jeeps have been around the country and crossed some incredible terrain. And I still hear the same thing. “My Jeep isn’t done yet.” Neither is mine. But I have been to Moab with the old one that wasn’t done, and I’m looking forward to taking my current one (that isn’t “done”) there, too.

I spent years blogging on Active|Rain (a blogging platform for real estate agents). I was actually pretty close to the top of the stats a few years ago. It wasn’t because of my exceptional writing… it was because I was there… every day… creating something. I was an early adopter and built a following. I achieved a bit of notoriety because I was persistent and frequent.

Currently, I am involved with writing and releasing several fiction books. It’s been interesting. However, as I talk to some friends and others, I have heard the same line… Read More

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Washington at Valley Forge (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Here’s wishing you a great 4th of July.  As you celebrate, don’t forget the reason for the celebration.  Brave men and women gave us a gift by demanding and then fighting for OUR liberty.

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I seldom get political on this blog.  But this is important.

Image via Wikipedia

Both Houses of Congress are looking at legislation aimed at curtailing online piracy… copyright violations.  This movement is largely backed by the photography community and the music and movie industries… as well as many professional sports leagues.

But all isn’t well.  The current legislation is VERY poorly written.  In fact, they are written so loosely as to allow the government to shut down a website because of a comment.  Not after any sort of warning… but instead of a warning.  A website owner’s income could be cut off without warning or proof, and then he would have to engage in a protracted legal battle to regain access to their own website.  And it wouldn’t have to be from content generated by the owner of the site.

But, I think that the largest part of the problem is that property (a website/domain) could be seized without due process.  Possibly even at the behest of a competitor… since a violation could be recorded because of something placed on the site by a commentor.

The goal is appropriate.  The method of trying to achieve the goal is SERIOUSLY flawed.  Call your Congressmen and Senators.

***UPDATE*** After writing and scheduling the post, but before publication, Congress dropped the legislation from consideration… for now.  Of course, that doesn’t mean that they won’t pick it up again when they think nobody is paying attention.  “We’ve got to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.”  Nancy Pelosi, referring to ObamaCare…

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