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Pineapple Express all week. That’s where the rain forms a corridor connecting the Hawaiian islands with Seattle and they are expecting 8 inches of rain. That’s 20cm in civilized places. And more than we usually get in a month. Shit will be we. Not too cold, as it’s supposed to stay in the low 50s (low teens C).
Just kinda gray.
Got the Kickstarter link finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blazeward/make-100-2026-collection
Five volumes: 60 stories SF. 20 Fantasy. 10 Thriller. 10 Superhero. $25. Hell of a deal.
Those of you lagging three weeks will just have time to sign up for go live, as that’s the first week of January. Running three weeks. Tell all your friends because I’d like to make life-changing money from this one.
Pants are very overrated.
I have lost track of writing, but that’s me with half a dozen open projects as I try to finish them off. Shorts, plus a pair of novels I’m noodling on, trying to get into the mode of writing Action-Thriller at longer lengths, because I have spent too much time at 9k for Thrill Ride. Eleven Zach and company stories done at present, so you will be entertained.
Writer-brain finally wants to write the third and epic conclusion to Kincaide’s War next. Ships of Heaven. Concluding the monster that I’ve been thinking about for more than a decade at this point. Target is 170k words, like the previous two. Doorstops.
In between, starting a new thriller series intending to commit mass mayhem and political violence on grand scales. Not in the best of moods, to ax-murdering on paper is the safest outlet. And Anti-Stodgy in a couple of days, but I have to pause and think about what I might write. Might talk about the craft fair this last weekend where I helped out. Kinda like the table at WorldCon, but radically different experience.
Not a lot past that. Need more coffee this morning. Maybe a hit of Irish cream or eggnog.
Then some firefights in Tacoma.
How’s your Tuesday?
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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