I hear this a lot when I’m giving out free Kindle books. Sometimes they want me to give them a free printed book… sometimes it’s really just an excuse to try to avoid offending me. But every once in a while, they really don’t know that they can read Kindle books without a Kindle. Read More

Feel free to check out my Amazon Author page to see my current books. Most are available for $2.99 for Kindle, $12.99 for print… and if you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited, they are FREE to read all the time.

By the way, I’m always thrilled when you share my social media book posts, blog posts, or books with your friends and followers. Thank you.

Or maybe missed is the wrong word.

For those that aren’t familiar, NaNoWriMo is short for National Novel Writing Month. And it’s November. The object is to write a 50,000 word novel over the course of the month. Anyone that completes the objective is a “winner”. Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean an edited, complete, ready-to-roll novel at the end o f the month. It means a raw-assed first draft. Rough… ready to be worked into something worthy of pride. Read More

I should also mention that Who, What, When, Why? is FREE for Kindle right now. Hurry and download it to read at your leisure. Consider it Trick or Treat candy in your pumpkin from me…

I’m not going to be mad if you share my blog posts, pass along my Amazon Author page, or talk up my books to your friends and followers. I’d also LOVE for you to subscribe to my blog. Emails are usually no more than one a week (and if I don’t get back to blogging regularly, they won’t be that often. AND, you get a FREE e-book…)

I’ve been a little preoccupied lately. I have ignored blogging to concentrate my energies elsewhere. I need to be better about that. But it also is what it is.

As of the middle of July, I crossed the 10 book bridge. I published my 10th book, Angel (Guardian Angel/Angel of Death) on July 15th. Currently it is only published to Kindle, and available for either $4.99 or FREE if you are a subscriber to Kindle Unlimited. I will publish it to paperback in the not too distant future.

Quickly about the book… It is the backstory of Warren Chestik. Warren appears in Second Chance, as well as Unknown Caller. Admittedly, he is only mentioned in Unknown Caller. He will also appear in At Arm’s Length, which I will talk about more on Friday… in a post about upcoming books.

Chestik is a former special forces operator that finds himself pulled into Jack Dixon’s orbit through personal circumstances. And as his homelife crumbles around him, Jack and Amy step in to save him from himself, even as he has to save others around him. He is a good man, pushed to do bad things for revenge. But still remains a good man. In the story, he loves, loses, and loves again. He finds family and acceptance where he didn’t expect it, and finds a new purpose in life.

I have really enjoyed writing, and love getting feedback from readers (even when they say they didn’t especially like something). My characters are like my imaginary friends (and some enemies) and they have extraordinary lives and adventures. It’s fun to chronicle them, and sometimes even lets me relive some of my own past… or purge it from my system.

For the blog over the next few weeks, I will have a couple of excerpts from each of my works in progress, as well as a little of how the stories came about… when caused me to start writing that particular story. I will post up excerpts on Monday and Wednesday, and then talk about the story on Friday. I’d LOVE for you to subscribe to the blog… it makes me feel that it is worthwhile to write if there are readers. 😉 A nice bonus is that you can get a FREE ebook for subscribing to my blog. It is a domestic thriller…

Not all of my stories will make it to novels. A few have been digitally balled up and tossed i the round-file, while others have been trimmed to short stories or novellas. I collected a few for Who, What, When, Why? and some others into Grafton. I have also posted some for free on my Vocal.media account. So, as you dive into my little world, know that the story you read might only make it this far. Also keep in mind that it might change a lot before it gets published away from the blog. Read More

On a different note… I’m still looking for folks to read and review some books. I’ll give you one of my books (gift through Kindle) for you to review if you are interested… Just let me know. I’m also always looking for beta readers… people to read books BEFORE they are done to offer their opinions.

Writing is hard sometimes, but like many things, it is harder to pick back up than it is to keep going.

In real life, I have started going to the gym. I am carrying too much weight, and I am not in the shape I want to be in, so a couple of months ago I started going to work out. It has been challenging at times, but I have been trying to build and maintain the habit that I need in order to get where I want to go with my health.

After our last vacation, I hadn’t stepped into the gym in ten days. I had been active on vacation, and hadn’t really picked up weight… but I knew I couldn’t let time pass. I picked up on Monday and jumped right back into it. A good bit of that was due to accountability. The owner of the gym is a friend. I don’t show up and he will probably mention it.

Also when we took the vacation, I wasn’t writing for a little while. On the blog, that didn’t show up until after we were back… I had pre-staged several posts to automatically post while I was gone. Of course, I couldn’t do a lot to promote them, so there wasn’t much traffic.

But when I got back, I didn’t jump back into writing fast enough… on the blog. So I missed a few posts and could see the numbers trail off. When I’m not writing, it is easy to not write.

On the book front, I actually had an idea on the vacation and couldn’t shake it, so I kept rolling after getting home. And I have written on the books I am working on almost every day.

Momentum.

When I am doing something, I think about doing it… and am more inspired to keep doing it. When i’m not, I’m really not.

Habits are hard to make and easy to break.

So many ideas…

One of the things that I have figured out is that I can sort of multi-task on writing. After Dig Two Graves I started writing several things at a time. Basically, if I hit a wall, I would get around it by getting out of the story. I would work on another idea for a while, then come back to the one with a wall when I had fresh eyes. Read More

In between I try to write a few short stories for Vocal…

I’d LOVE for you to check out any of my writing.