New URL for Facebook

New URL for Facebook

Due to FB’s incompetence, I can now be found here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008670550040 Do not, I repeat, do not pay these people for an ad or to boost posts. Yesterday I woke up to a PROVE you are you from Facebook and a blocked account.  I sent in my photo ID.  Unblocked. Everything back to normal.  With a “We will keep this on file for a year.”  No problem. Today I wake up…

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Present Uncertain excerpt The Brig

Present Uncertain excerpt The Brig

“Get up. Your ride’s here.” The Petty Officer hit the bars with his nightstick. The men sprawled on the racks didn’t move. “It’s about time, Sarge.” One swung himself upright and froze. “Gunny. I mean Gunnery Sergeant, I… We…” As the Petty Officer unlocked the door, the others shot to their feet. “Out here now!” Gunny barked. They shuffled out slowly. “Your mother, Marcus?” “Sir, I…” “She was…

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I am missing on FB

I am missing on FB

After being on there for 4 years, FB has suddenly decided I’m not a real person and demanded proof that I am.  I had to send them my photo ID.  Bit of luck because when I renew my Brooklyn Public Library membership, I have to send them my ID every time.  So I have one on my hard drive . Needless to say, I was already pissed off at the fools but now I’m fucking furious.  Four fucking years and NOW…

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Delay on release due to illness.

Delay on release due to illness.

Since this is a one man show, I’m kicking back the release of Present Uncertain to Aug 10th. I regret it and to help make up for it, I lowered the price of the book. Due to the way my distributor runs for the ebooks, I had to pull the preorders on there. Amazon is still available because I was smart enough NOT to use the distributor for preorders. As much as I wanted Google, I’m looking at other…

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Goodreads screwed the pooch again... sigh.

Goodreads screwed the pooch again… sigh.

There is nothing more exciting when you haven’t finished your first cup of coffee than finding out that Goodreads, AGAIN, stuffed your newest book under someone else’s profile. It’s starting to look like every damn time I publish a book, they are going to stuff me under some other poor bloke who would NEVER think of writing Gay Romance or M/M. So you end up with two pissed off authors, not just…

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Present Uncertain: Available for Preorder

Present Uncertain: Available for Preorder

What happens when Society tells you that you are something different from what you are?  And what you want to be isn’t what you are supposed to be?  Could anyone love you for who you really are?  Throw in bombs, Platoons, and other’s demands of what you want to be  and it gets… well… complicated.  Can love and who you are win? The First Solis Elf in 500 years, Callon joins the military to escape…

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News Flash Writers: We are all going to die

News Flash Writers: We are all going to die

And then where will your writing be.  Neil Gaiman brought this topic up. We can’t avoid it.  What will happen to your books and works in progress when you die?  Who will get it? Who will control it? John M. Ford was pretty much the smartest writer I knew. Mostly. He did one thing that was less than smart, though: he knew he wasn’t in the best of health, but he still didn’t leave a proper will,…

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Wordpress screwed the pooch again and I'm "slightly vexed"

WordPress screwed the pooch again and I’m “slightly vexed”

Compared to the D’regs, they were merely slightly vexed–      Prachett from Jingo What else is new.  They screwed up enough that they could have created their own pack.  I can’t modify my own website. It keeps telling me “Sorry you can’t do that.”  IT IS MY BLOODY SITE. I’m not in a good mood to begin with and they do this crap.  It is such a PIA.  Of course, I’ve been in a bad mood since Nov 8th…

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New book progress and Pen Names

New book progress and Pen Names

Because Present Uncertain is not what I normally write even though you might see my writing in it, I decided to use a Pen Name: Harrison Phillips.  I have no clue how I came up with that. [Innocent eye roll] The book is halfway done at the moment. Present Uncertain is the story of a Solis Elf  [Sun Elf] who simply wants to be himself even though his genes and body will deny him that simple thing.…

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Business as.. usual?

This is going to be a hated post by a lot of people.  It’s a reality post.  The reality of writing.  And it sucks.  Big time.  There are no escaping simple facts, among them, is if you plan on being an author who gets paid for their work, you have to deal in business.  No editor or publishing house is going to let you escape it…  The fact remains you must know business. Feel free to mutter all…

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Getting Old is Hell

Getting Old is Hell

Getting old is hell, especially when parts start to fall off.  Yesterday and today were two long trips and they drove home the fact that I’m not 18 any more.  Heck the wrong side of 40 would be good too… The first was needful because it turns out, I’m blind as a bat  That might be an over exaggeration but it’s headed that way.  My trip to the eye doctor’s  the last time showed I am developing…

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An Interesting Week I'm still looking for my carpet... Gordon knew where it was. I think it's on the floor...

Obscenity

A trip with Gran and an unusual take on a classic movie…

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A Month of Hell

A Month of Hell

It’s been a month of hell… to put it mildly. No, I’m not looking for sympathy because some of this is convoluted which simply adds to the stress. I scored 793 on the Holmes and Rahe Stress scale.  It’s no damn wonder I suddenly developed the tic of tapping my right foot.  The right foot with the chronic torn Achilles tendon. Sheesh.  Not the left.  The right mind you. My half-sister who has…

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I, Myself and Me

The Tattooed Tribes

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Times, they are a changing

Times, they are a changing

This past couple weeks have been hectic ending in a near collapse when I finally realized I was simply too damn sick and I crawled into bed and stayed in there for almost 5 days. That was my fault. I ignored the lung infection I get from Lupus about a week too long. And I paid for it. I’m slowly coming back to life. I’m still not in my best shape but a darn bit better. I have to be, tomorrow is…

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