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Tuesday. Got Mama Doe and two Zoomies grazing in the back yard as I write this. Total of three fawns from two mothers that I have seen. Plus some random bucks wandering around, because I have a lot of trees and no dogs to chase them off. Kinda nice watching wildlife wander by, and I built the orchard box to keep everyone but the squirrels out.
Harvested some cherries over the weekend. Got another tree that will be ripe this weekend. Made shrub. Might make booze.
Trying a whiskey/moonshine recipe at the moment. Corn and brown sugar. Bubbling slowly, so I have no idea how or even if it will work, but happy to try. Give it a few weeks and see what kind of taste we have.
Got the Art Colony barbecue in August, for those of you who have been in the past or would like to talk about joining. Artists of all kinds, cross-fertilizing and meeting people, because we need more of that, the longer we all receded into social media distance.
Writing. Kinda grumpy, but that’s the material. Spend last week working on new shorts for Patreon. Those will, like Scattered Tribes, turn into a book one at some point. Slow build, because lots of material and no hurry to get to the really crazy bits as we explore the slightly less crazy bits first.
Also working the erotica. Close to done with #4 at the moment and continuing on. Might know in July if it turns into a project or just becomes stuff that I pub under Cole’s name. Space Opera. With adult content, but you honestly could strip out a lot of that and keep it PG-13.
It entertains me.
Heather 5 is about 11k completed as I write this. The end of that series, setting up the series after that, which I will write at some point. The current Year of the Republic is 419, for those of you with a copy of Auberon handy to compare. Lots of light-years in between.
As I am working on a variety of genres, this one will take a while to complete, but that’s fine. I do have Last Stand #13 done and it will go into a special edition of Boundary Shock Quarterly next year. It also motivates me to write more of those, because I have an idea that will span a while bunch of stories.
Got more Action-Thriller to write. More SF. More erotica. More STUFFFF.
Hopefully, you people are entertained enough to keep funding my lifestyle, ya know?
Rambling, and that’s fine. Lemme know what questions you have and I’ll try to answer.
Oh: WORLD CON IS IN SEATTLE in August. Knight Errant (A’Zedi Survey Corps, Book One) is out. I will have a paper edition (it is sitting on my left on my desk). If I Tuckerized you into that book (just about everyone I got permission from at this point, saving a couple), and you will be in the Seattle area (WorldCon or any other reason), I would like to get you to sign my copy. And I’ll sign yours.
Mark your calendars. I’ll also be in Vegas for AuthorNation in November, and am talking to the folks at Superstars for February. Hoping to make it to Minneapolis in December for family holiday, but that’s not nailed down yet.
Also happy to road trip to Portland to see you, but not any greater distance than that or Spokane or the Canadian border going north. You let me know.
More erotica in the background. If you wanna first read it, lemme know. If you write erotica or know folks who do, I suspect we’ll give serious talk to starting a Syndicate Magazine at some point, so we’ll be talking and recruiting. Film at 11, as it were.
Past that, y’all have a lovely Tuesday.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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