I was browsing the news and saw the Tiger Woods crash. He crashed about 9 miles from me, but much closer if you draw a straight line. But that area is a world apart. This is stuff I enjoy writing about. How all these little changes to a region can affect society. The reason I have lived in my tiny beach city for >20 years is largely because...I can afford it. And I can afford it because the super wealthy... Read More
I might be involved in a pilot program with Amazon to be able to put out my books in hardcover. I don't know if anyone would be interested, however. Read More
Garm book is at the editor. It's about 110K words. I have ants in my kitchen. Not a lot. But ants. I haven't used an ant bait maybe for...25 years? And they haven't changed. It's poison, and they have liabilities, so they make this twisty ant hotel that no ant will go inside. 25 years ago, I had put it right in the path of ants and watched them steadfastly walk around it. So I cut off the top and... Read More
Preliminary cover. "Accidentally" spent like 4 hours working on this last night. Getting the lighting is hardest. Titles will be top. My name bottom. So I need room for all that. Garm looks best super close up. But then you can't really see anything else. And I want her center. I might change color of Gandrine just because he has a similar tone to Garm. I made a short video where you can see the scale of them all. Because... Read More
Sitting here in the morning, my hands freezing, trying to type. It's arctic temperatures here. 52 degrees F. I may die of hypothermia. I have on fuzzy house slippers it's so cold! As an aside to this aside, I got some fuzzy house slippers with memory foam padding. Sure. Memory foam. I sleep on it. I use it as a pillow. Should be great for shoe padding, right? No. Shoes are shoes, not beds. The memory foam is way too... Read More