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You missed it, but late pledges are still live briefly

Reminder that the Kickstarter link is finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.

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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.

Good news, the kickstarter (1/13) is over $2500. Good money. Not life-changing, but thank you to everyone who backed and I’m hoping you enjoy something like 3000 pages of stories. Current stretch level includes six more stories in a Volume 6, including my one (to date) attempt at a romantic meet-cute. More fun, we’ve hit a goal where I will write something FOR volume 6. Not sure what. If you have ideas, speak up and maybe trigger inspiration. Gotta look at the pile and see what jumps out at me.

Seriously, kinda at a loss for stretch goals, because I’m already farther along than I thought I would get. And folks have suggested swag, without understanding how much time, energy, and money would go into handling merchandise. It is a pain. Plus, I’m in the middle of a Swedish Death Cleaning, getting rid of stuff so brain doesn’t want more stuff.

It’s Kickstarter, and I’ve been part of too many kickstarters where the person doing the project blew through the money before delivering, and I ended up getting nothing. In one case, he had to declare bankruptcy, sell his ttrpg to someone else, and that guy offered us the chance to buy it at his cost, so I ended up paying twice for one of the games on my shelf.

No, thank you.

Speaking of games, you are going to hear me talking about ttrpg and board games this year. I have a project I want to write, after I get others wrapped up, so I might get to Book One this year. The project is called Hoshiyama, which loosely means Star Mountain and refers to the Observatory on the top of it, but only as the name of a starship.

Another Grand Epic Military Space Opera, because. Drawing inspiration from the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica, plus both Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon Bonaparte, both of whom managed to reign for about the same length of time.

Old-timers will remember that I was working on a table top roleplaying game engine up into 2024, when the guy I was working with decided that he wanted to make a game that was a pale echo of AD&D1. Shadowdark, basically, with a few additions and most of the character classes stripped down until largely Red Fighter/Blue Fighter.

I am forced to play level/class/D20 games because that’s what everyone is building these days, but I remember when DnD 2 wasn’t even in the top ten when it came to games we played. (Late 80s, early 90s). Shadowrun. Mechwarrior/Battletech. Champions. Star Wars (West End). Etc. None of them based on a d20 mechanic.

So I put things away for a time and let him create his game. It kinda failed when he realized how linear things were and how much it required players to try to make shit up, only for him to smash their ideas back down because it didn’t fit his (unwritten) vision for the classes. He’s going to try again, with more rules and more class abilities. I have my doubts, but I’ll play.

More importantly, writer-brain connected Hoshiyama with the game engine in my head, and game me a central focus. It also lets me worldbuild and rulesbuild simultaneously. Plus, Ken Burnside who runs Squadron Strike at Ad Astra Games suggested a starship combat variant based on his system offering me some pointers and suggestions for how I could build things today to make it easier tomorrow.

So at present, I am building the ttrpg at the same time I am planning Book One, with a goal to drop both at the same time, and let people play in the world.

***Do I know any pencil artists willing to do some line drawing art for cheap, given the project of a lot of quick drawings, b/w, like you find inside RPG books? Pass the word and have them reach out. No AI artists entertained, and I’m not looking for any full color work. Pencil sketch grade stuff. A real artist gamer will know exactly what I’m talking about and those are the ones I want to talk to. ***

Getting close to finishing the third Shogun story and completing that trilogy. Next major project is the third and final book in Kincaide’s War, Ships of Heaven. Also writing shorter stuff on the phone, as I do. Gotta write on Mondays. SF short (Baja the Bounty Hunter) and erotica (Santiago Kirby) going right now. Plus whatever for the kickstarter.

Don’t forget the kickstarter.

Past that, chugging along. Swedish Death Cleaning the brain as much as the house. It’s nice, but everything keeps moving around and is a bit unsettled at present. Will get fixed.

Will continue writing. Will make a game or two to go with a military Space Opera epic series.

Will win. And really, that’s what matters at the end of the day.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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Later today

Reminder that the Kickstarter link is finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.

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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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One week from today: Reminder that the Kickstarter link is finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.

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Five volumes: 60 stories SF. 20 Fantasy. 10 Thriller. 10 Superhero. $25 ebook, $100 paper. 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.

Holiday week, part 2. Last week this time I was driving way north to pick up half a cow. Filled the bed of the Nissan pickup. Damn thing was about 100# heavier than expected, but we locked in a DAMNED good price overall. Crap for hamburger. Fantastic for ribeye. It all averages out.

Writing. Gonna do this, then actually start something but these words are going into 2026 because emotionally I’m there.

Finished off the Shaw Lonagan novel and set it up for a fun series. The elevator pitch to myself was “Batman and Jim Gordon must stop The Joker from poisoning the reservoir.” From there, creating an Anti-hero who wasn’t a complete asshole, as well as and Anti-villain cop (the kind who colors outside the lines) and find a way for the big, bad level monsters to stack by killing a chief mook in book one and leaving the dragon and the boss for later books.

Think it turned out pretty well, but need to take some time away from it and let it settle in my head. Hard to write, because I wanted to get to a specific confrontation, but do it in such a way that the two don’t kill each other and it feels natural when they decide to become allies against the night.

Anybody who wants to First Read some political thriller and tell me what you think give a yell.

Starting up on the third and final Daughter of the Shogun book today. Quick and bright, so I can get really freaking dark with Kincaide’s War #3 (Ships of Heaven) next and finish that trilogy off once and for all.

Also, did a Swedish Death Cleaning around here over the weekend. Hauled a 50# bag of old clothes to one of the charity stores. Got about 100 books to haul to Half-Price plus some old maps. Have already burned two banker’s boxes of files with two more to go when the winds die down again (sustained 30mph gusting 50mph this morning). The office has been gutted, cleaned, and is in the process of being refactored, with a lot of that stuff hauled over to the Workshop that used to be Tiny House 1. More space here.

More mental and emotional space here, too. Needed that. And that jumped me into 2026 to kinda clean slate things this week. Without a job, days and weeks get a little squishy, so I run on P-time instead of L-time. Personal over Linear (what you have with alarms, bosses, and meetings).

Works better for me and keeps me happy. Need that, as I expect to outlive most of you. 8P

And remember, medical students are using ChapGPT to learn, so you should probably consider eating heathier and exercising now so you don’t have to deal with one of those quacks.

Y’all have fun.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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Next Pineapple Express coming through. Already gotten like 40cm of rain from the last one. Next one monsoonerated all night and promises more, with the potential for snow coming down the elevations on Christmas Day. We’re at about 770 feet elevation. Snow only SUPPOSED to drop to 2500 feet. Supposed to. We’ll see.

Reminder that the Kickstarter link is finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.

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Five volumes: 60 stories SF. 20 Fantasy. 10 Thriller. 10 Superhero. $25. Hell of a deal.

Those of you lagging three weeks will watch it 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 still overrated.

Can’t remember what I told you last week and too lazy to look it up. Finished Survey Corps 3. About ¾ through a dark thriller piece with a new character. Evil looking for redemption by fighting worse evil. Starring thinly-veiled villains from the evening news that you would recognize if you follow politics.

Probably write the end of the RAN/Shogun trilogy next (bright and cheery) then dive into finishing the Kincaide trilogy (DARK) before whatever else. That’s out a couple of months from here at a minimum, as Kincaide will be around 175k words. Big.

About to drive way up north and pick up half a cow. We’ve run out, so time to get the next one, but this one came in way heavier than originally expected, so we had to pick up a spare coffin freezer for the meat. At least that was in the budget this year. I’d like it to be spare cash, one of these days. Tell all your friends to buy my books, m’kay? Heh.

Hope you have a lovely holiday and we’ll chat more next week.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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Sorry, gonna be a little annoying on all social media fronts for three weeks. But if we can make stupid money, I can play silly games with the writing, so encourage all your family and random acquaintances to get involved?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blazeward/make-100-2026-collection

Halfway funded in under an hour. I’d like to get back from errands tonight and be celebrating.

And sorry for the noise.

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More rain. First Pineapple Express finished by dropping something like 8 inches of rain in a week in places. Weekend was dry. Rain started again Sunday night with the second Pineapple Express.

Levy actually broke in Renton yesterday and folks reached out, but I’m WAY up in the mountains from Seattle. If you look on a map, find Kanaskat, WA, out southeast. That’s probably the closest town to me. And I’m up on a hilltop, up on the plateau. Snow is usually the only risk.

That and wind, because power lines are never buried, so when trees fall over in squishy soil, they take out power lines. Fortunately, the crews were hauling ass all fall taking out threatening branches, so until trees go, we should be good. And that damned bomb cyclone last year knocked a lot of shit over so we might have a couple of years.

Hoping.

Reminder that the Kickstarter link is finalized and ready to go for the Make 100.

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Five volumes: 60 stories SF. 20 Fantasy. 10 Thriller. 10 Superhero. $25. Hell of a deal.

Those of you lagging three weeks will watch it 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 still overrated.

Finished Survey Corps 3 and working on the thriller. Plotting out next books, but writer brain really wants to dive back into Kincaide’s war and finish that epic trilogy finally. Target is 175k words, same as the first two, so a doorstop. And epic, because it will conclude things, though I haven’t worked out more than a couple of plot threads, plus the understanding that I have an immense crew of characters who need their various arcs concluded.

Also working on something that might dance the line between Magic Realism and Science Fiction, just because I had a weird idea the other day and want to explore it.

And I found a fun book in the book store yesterday. Time-Life did a series on aviation called The Epic Of Flight in 1980. Book store has them, and selling individual copies for $2. And they know to flag airplane books for me for Red Branch research, so I have gotten a few.

Yesterday, I found The Aeronauts and brain clicked. I had a story in Blaze Ward Presents #4 (Cloak and Dagger) about a pair of young women who ran away from life in the Post-Napoleonic Era (1820+) to have adventures as Aeronauts. Have a whole bunch of things planned that never got into the first story, but were set up for long-term.

Yesterday, I realized that they would work just fine as historic Action-Thriller, so now I need to look at upcoming themes for Thrill Ride Magazine. Because historic is just fine there. And all the tech toys are things that will be invented over the next 10-20 years anyway, so now we’re James Bond instead of The Skylark of Space.

Lots of science to confirm. Tech to research. Adventures to undertake as balloonists and renegades. Gonna be fun, because that one book covers a lot of the balloon tech I need.

So watch this space for more fun.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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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.

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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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Hope the USians among you had a lovely and quiet Thanksgiving last week. I did, but I POINTEDLY don’t deal with my blood family these days. Like, last saw most of them a decade ago when I married the Fabulous Publisher Babe™ and some of them came. Not all. Try to talk to my sisters on their birthdays. Couldn’t tell you when I last talked to nieces and nephews.

You are not required to go hang out with horrible people. Honest. I’m not their cup of tea and vice versa. That’s fine. I have Donna’s family and Leah’s and both generally like me.

News: She spatchcocked and smokered a turkey. Holy shit did it turn out perfect. I made Stuffing Balls (a new to me recipe that’s extremely adaptable to sweet as well as savory). Made Graham crackers so I could make a pie crust with them to make the French Silk Chocolate Pie recipe you saw last month. Made her mom’s recipe cinnamon rolls with an overnight rise in the fridge to bake for breakfast Thursday morning. Mashed Sweet potato. Cranberry/Orange stuff.

Really good and just the right amount of leftovers.

Already sent out a newsletter and a lot of emails, so keeping this brief.

Third A’Zedi Survey Corps book is ¾ done. Finish it this week. Dunno pub date.

If you are in that series as a character, I would like to track you down IRL and get you to sign my copy. Or have you mail me a bookmark or something with your sig to include. And I’ll sign your copy when I see you. Will be at Superstars in Colorado in Feb. Probably will be at Norwescon (haven’t gotten confirmation on programming yet). Live Seattle-ish. Check in.

Also finished a villain story for Zach and Redlance, introducing a character I have described as a Gender-swapped Joker who lets me get inside her head and revel in chaos crazy. Those are the most fun, because she does weird shit for reasons that make perfect sense to her and not to anybody else.

Known too many authors who only write Lawful Evil, regardless. I enjoy dabbling in Chaotic Evil from time to time. More than one GM has regretted giving me permission to do that, but that’s a later story.

Also rereading Kincaide, because writer-brain might finally be ready to conclude that epic trilogy with ‘The Ships Of Heaven’ going back more than a decade to the original ideas that I wasn’t skilled enough to pull off at the time.

More next week. Not a lot of brain this morning.

Cheers.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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Winter is getting close. Monday was a bout 35F (2C) as I left the house yesterday morning for an “All Day Monday In Town” day.

DND game. Workout at the home dojo with Sensei. Late lunch. Root beer across the street from the school dojo. Class. Groceries on the way home. Collapse.

Working on Iron Shirt, so letting an 11-year-old punch me in the stomach as part of training drills. (Block. Clear. Bap. Bap.) He’s learning to actually try to hurt someone (kid’s an artistic soul), and I need the practice. Don’t even hurt this morning, but can tell you he was punching the right side of my stomach and not the left.

Never got warm yesterday. I park the car at the middle of town, then walk down to a coffee shop a few blocks away after breakfast. Sit in there and write for an hour or so, then meet the nerd herd.

Walked by a pavilion on an empty lot that the city leaves up. Last year, this time, I was training under it at odd hours. Whenever Sensei had space in his floating schedule. Remembered a morning when it was snowing and we were bundled up doing kata. Had to write an essay, meditating on that day and on the use of violence itself as a tool.

I am literally writing a book called “My Blackbelt Journey” filled with these essays in real time as I learn things and as he adjusts his curriculum. (And I have lots of notes, so I can prove it when he denies changing anything, but that’s a different story for him to tell.)

Worse, he showed up and called when he saw my car, then walked down to the shop, and also had those same thoughts about the pavilion and cold weather. But it was a dojo day, and we talk dojo things in the spare time.

Writing has me working on the thriller a bit (slower going) and A’Zedi Survey Corps 3. Should finish that in a week or so, because those go fast. Lots of other ideas, and things to publish and write.

Heather 1 is out for preorder: https://www.knottedroadpress.com/products/warlord-of-yaumgan

There is also a unit patch for Shanhai Pass (Heather’s flagship). And those are easier to do these days, so we will be adding patches as merch in the store. Red Branch is the one I’m looking forward to, but also figuring out how to do an easier version of Auberon that looks better (the old one is pretty, but the CNC sewing machine can’t keep up.)

Not much past that. It’s Taco Tuesday somewhere. And it is November 25, which would have been Donna’s birthday. Lost her to breast cancer in 2008 and I miss her, but life goes on and she ordered me to make sure I enjoyed myself, so I’m working on that.

You do the same.

Chat more later.

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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Cold out there today. And gray and a little foggy.

I’m slow to grind up this morning, but didn’t sleep well and a little exhausted after the weekend. Did the Wine Walk in Enumclaw Saturday. There is also a beer walk in June.

Usually, I stand at the entrance to the back and do the whole carnival barker thing, distracting and misdirecting folks who are just here to get their wine and leave. Instead, they buy books. Lots of books.

But Wine Walk, so middle aged women. Lots of romance and fantasy, plus the guy that sells out of his True Crime books every year. I think I’ve sold like one book, each of the last two years.

Saturday went weird, but that was me hitting husbands and boyfriends. Sold out of my copies of Night Strike (Red Branch 1) and sold maybe 4 other books, so far and away the best event I’ve ever done. Hopefully, them folks turn into readers and fans.

Sunday, we crashed on the couch and introverted. Monday gone all day like usual. Still catching up this morning. More coffee shortly.

Started one project and put it aside almost immediately. Too nice, when I’m not feeling nice. Started an assassin series instead, based on a character coming out in the next Thrill Ride (Dec 1. Spies.) Main goal here is a high body count. Like, stupid levels of mooks.

At the same time, I started the next A’Zedi Survey Corps book (#3. Edge of the Map.) to have something to write on the phone tonight when I go into town for a write-in. Assuming the ladies actually shut up long enough for others to work. (“Xtraverts” as it were.)

Writing this as an excuse to type words on a page and somehow make sense of them. You should know that by now.

Not really a lot there. Time for coffee.

How’s your Tuesday going?

shade and sweet water,

b

West of the Mountains, WA

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