I had to delete and backspace a LOT to get this chapter. I had two (almost three) chapters written, and it didn’t feel right. No… it felt terrible, and the more I wrote, the worse it got. I stopped and left it alone for a while and then came back. When I wrote these snippets, each snippet stood alone. The conflict between Ondry secretly ...
2026-01-09 17:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostI've attached four file types: epub, mobi, pdf 5x8 and 8x10. Hopefully you can download your choice. I"m still trying to figure out these tools. And like before, don't buy through the app. Go to the web. It's significantly cheaper.
I'm continuing my quest to clean up the business end, and I have the Afterword for this book. I'm going to load it into Draft2Digital, which means I now have to decide between late January or late March, but I will put the files up here for download if you want one early. I think I will go for January. Maybe. Anyway, I always want to run the l...
2025-12-23 00:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostI just posted the final files for Flying Swords 1. People can download the book early. Then when the book technically publishes in February, the price will go up to the Amazon price (5.99). But this is the afterword with my gratitude toward those of you who have supported me. Please let me know if I have a name wrong.
I have recently watc...
2025-12-21 18:30:19 +0000 UTC View PostI am pulling together Earth Fathers and Flying Swords for publication. I am debating between doing a late January and late February release and doing late February and late March, which might give me more time to get word out to review sites. I am going to put them up for sale here as soon as I have the formatting done, so you guys can get e-ve...
2025-12-21 17:16:08 +0000 UTC View PostI finished grading the final essays and the essay rewrites. I swear. Why do they not fix their shit the first time around. Every year, more and more kids think they can get away with half-assing things. But that is done, and now I only need to get through finals.
I've been playing with titles on this one. What do you think of Procr...
2025-12-14 22:27:14 +0000 UTC View PostThis is so very, very unbetaed, unchecked, unreread. I have to grade, but I couldn't stop writing this, so here you go. Geez. Now I have a LOT of grading to do before bedtime (and not that many hours before bedtime comes. See ya!
Ondry followed Liam back onto the street. Several people fled into the nearest build...
2025-12-02 02:36:41 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone had great holiday. I caught up on grading (doesn't that sound exciting?), but I also took some time out for Ondry and Liam.
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Ondry stopped at a worn brick building between a sign that announced “Cheap Laundromat” and another that offered “Loans, Reasonable Rates.” The idea of advertising services confused Ond...
2025-12-01 01:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostI'm working on Ondry and Liam, but I did the Ro
2025-11-22 19:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostI don't write as much smut anymore, do I? And I definitely don't write as much tail smut because I am out of practice. But hopefully I lived up to the original books.
The Grandmother stared as Ondry finished explaining their concerns with the homeless children. Her eyes were wide, and she was artificially...
2025-11-22 04:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostLiam couldn’t miss the distress on Ondry’s face—the pale skin, the tight lips. Liam walked closer to Ondry, hoping his presence could calm him. It wasn’t as if there were an enemy Ondry could turn his attention toward. Poverty couldn’t be killed with a fang. Ondry looked ready to try, though.
Children always set...
2025-11-14 02:25:54 +0000 UTC View PostI am writing a little slower because my ergonomic keyboard broke. Yes, I immediately ordered a new one from Amazon, and the delivery has been pushed back three times. I even went to Walmart to see if they had one. They didn't.
Amazon is great for finding rarer items... until it isn't great. Then it's frustrating. The new delivery date is...
2025-11-09 01:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostOndry stood at the top of the ramp and breathed in the smoky air of Earth. He knew the Grandmothers had traded several clean energy designs, so why the planet still stunk was a mystery to him. “Are you happy to return?” Ondry asked. They had avoided Earth for fifty years after discovering the distress their presence caused those who ha...
2025-10-29 04:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe editing on Flying Swords was torturous. I had so many continuity and content errors that I didn’t even get it to the editor until this week until last week (so I missed my scheduled window by quite a bit). But I am now off and working on the new title. I started by getting back into the universe. Do you want to see what I’ve been worki...
2025-10-26 16:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe editing with Flying Swords was… terrible. Truly terrible. At one point he had to touch a plant to do magic, at another he could do it from a distance. At once point Aunty Daiyu complains that Heng never learned manners because his mother died so young, but then Mother Huiling is there. I swear, I have never written such a hot me...
2025-10-26 16:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostAfter hearing all your comments at the end of chapter 28, you convinced me I did need and epilogue. And I agree with you. The story feels more complete now. So now I am going to read back through and get it read to send off to the editor. I have a slot booked at the end of the month.
The book ended a little over 80K, which is longer than I...
2025-09-25 00:45:14 +0000 UTC View PostI think this is the end—for now. There are a number of threads hanging, but none are easily tied up. They would require another book, and I do have a bunch of ideas. However, let’s see how this one does.
At the end of the chapter, you tell me if there’s anything you want to see in an epilogue or if you think I”m finished.
I am done with the editing for Earth In-laws, so now I need to set a release schedule and get the formatting done. So, what review sites do you guys visit when you’re looking at new releases? I need to get word out there. I am also writing the last chapter of Flying Swords, although I do think I need a short epilogue. But then that will be i...
2025-09-22 02:19:05 +0000 UTC View PostI just got edits back on Earth Fathers 3, so it's time for art. I think I settled on a title. I'm going with irascible because there are a lot of angry aliens, and Max's father-in-law heads the list. So now I have to do the unfun editing. But I leave you with the cover.
I have wanted to share this chapter forever. So many times, I start a story with some scene at the end that I want to share, and this has been the driving scene of this whole book. Leander might call everyone else an idiot, but this chapter is proof that he can sometimes pull some very stupid moves.
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2025-09-12 18:47:26 +0000 UTC View PostI am definitely coming down to the wire with this. I want to give the three men time to engage with each other, have a reunion with Shanlin and then maybe some weary comfort sex, and then this one will be in the bag… so one or two chapters maybe. I do want to go back and edit to make Leander a little more sharp tongued. I think I got caught u...
2025-09-08 04:04:38 +0000 UTC View PostI have no idea where this came from, but I wanted to share.
Game Night
The first time they played, Ondry had been both confused and annoyed. Rownt were not designed to sit in human-sized chairs or handle human-sized dice, and only one of those problems was solvable.
However, by the time they had me...
2025-09-02 01:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostLeander had once thought that Cadell radiated darkness, and that had never been more true. He stepped out of the shadows radiating menace.
“Cadell,” Leander whispered.
“Leander,” he replied in an amused voice. “Druwolf ordered you killed, but whether that is painful or easy is up to me. You’ve always had a healthy strand ...
2025-08-30 23:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostI told you, this works so much better with the Heng chapter first. I had to delete my work, but now that the three of them are together (albeit with two on the injured reserve list), the conflict flows much better. I still haven’t decided what I’m going to do about Min, though. She was a bad, bad girl.
On another note, Earth In-laws ...
2025-08-28 03:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostI tried writing the conflict with the Westerners first, and nothing flowed, so I backed up and wrote this first. It took some serious rewriting, but I think this works now.
On another note… OMG. I moved from history to English to keep a younger teacher from being laid off, and Holy Hannah… teaching English is either a shit-ton more w...
2025-08-25 04:32:23 +0000 UTC View PostI was working on Flying Swords, but the conflict with the villain just felt… wrong. Off. Unbalanced. I had to delete a bunch, and now I’m taking another shot at it. So meanwhile I turned to Game of Thrones as a palate cleanser and as I get closer to the climax of this second arc, it is getting darker. I keep reminding myself that these cha...
2025-08-12 19:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostI know I wrote this post yesterday. I did, I did, I did. I woke up this morning eager to see how ya’ll liked the chapter, and nothing. I had a moment of panic (OMG, I suck so bad they can’t tell me I suck), so I came to the site to see if I at least got likes. I mean, I had to work so hard on this chapter. It felt like a big chain of events...
2025-07-29 14:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostI know I talked about changing the name for Flying Swords. That might be the title of the magical cultivation school, but the story has nothing to do with Swords and only has one brief bout of flying. So I'm trying out this title and cover. What do you think?
More and more romance covers are going with the abstract/floral sort of patter...
2025-07-29 01:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two days for
2025-07-18 01:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostI had a big hurdle this chapter. Heng and Leander fit together. I know they do. So I have to show that Xi fits Leander too. And where we go from there... yeah, I'm not sure. I'll let you know when I do.
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Leander's shoulders stung from the bird's talons but as he sat up in the shallows of the sluggish ...
2025-07-16 21:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post