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Later today
Reminder that the Kickstarter link is 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 have to hustle if you are just catching up as it’s that close to done, only running three weeks. Tell all your friends because I’d like to make life-changing money from this one.
Pants are still overrated.
And then the silly bug bit me. No other way to describe it. Brain went WAY sideways and dug up an old Star Wars West End d6 ttrpg campaign from the early 90s where every character was a doctor of some sort. (Intentionally once we got on a roll.) Doctor Who. Dr. Doolittle. Doc Savage. Etc.
And Doc The Jawa Bounty Hunter. Only hunted assassin droids. Only weapons employed DEMP (Directed Electro-Magnetic Pulse) like the blue gun on Tattooine. I had WAY too much fun with Doc. Just sorry that some tweaker broke into my truck a decade ago and stole my posse box, probably expecting money or something instead of all my old character sheets and dice. I even looked in random, nearby trashcans, just in case, but never found it. Do remember bits and pieces because Doc was utterly silly.
Working on filing off a lot of serial numbers. And gender-swapped her when one of my alien random name generators threw up “Baja” as a option. Spanish word for short, more or less. Fit. Ran with it.
Gave her a wallaby sidekick. Except that Marseilles corrected me that she was technically a “hop-kick” by doing that to a punk in a bar. Again, silly bug. Way silly.
Third piece of the RAN/Shogun trilogy is coming along nicely. 13K of an expected 55, so right on pace. Also working on a project for the erotica penname, just so I can keep adding product over there and possibly get discovered. (You people would be rather put out of that name turned into the zeitgeist and I had to spend most of my time and energy over there, but it would be funny.)
Not much past that. Trying to have a relatively normal week now that the holidays are done. Monday was mostly normal. Didn’t get as much done as I hoped, but good distractions.
Hope you survived the holidays nicely and don’t forget the kickstarter.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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