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Friday, October 5, 2012

Nothing inspires true fear like.....

A trip to the dentist.  I only have a few things that actually give me a good case of the 'heebies', and while the dentist ranks the lowest on that scale, it still doesn't mean I'm not scared shitless.  Maybe it's the horrible sound of the tools, or the nauseating smells, maybe it's the too large hands trying to force themselves into my mouth....whatever the reason, I pity my dentist today.  I pity him because not only am I scared but I am a nervous wreck.  They've been warned in advance that I'm a white knuckler so I flatly refuse to feel bad for any of the terrible things I say while they work.  Not that they will be able to understand a damned thing I'm saying with my mouth shoved full of cotton.

Now that's out of the way, Thirty Years is doing better than I expected considering the dark subject matter and the visceral level the main character forces the reader to go in order to understand her life and her choices.  It's not a happily every after story, but it is reality for some people and that's the reason Thirty Years had to be written.  And it makes me smile to see her shining there in the dashboard.

Okay, I've put off getting ready for the dentist as long as I possibly could, so now I have to get ready.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Thirty Years Released Today

Thirty Years

Released this afternoon.  It has what I consider some adult content so you may have to turn your adult filter on to see it.

Now that is done, I'm still waiting on my damned phone repair guy.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Short Story....

I've written a new one, it's a little edgy and graphic but it has a few powerful political undertones.  It's short though, again I will be releasing it for free once I get the cover art finished and a second edit done.  It's already been named so I don't know why I feel the need to keep calling it 'short story' habit maybe.  I've got one other short story in the hopper that's a little closer to home and  taking a little longer to write than I would like but I hope to see it done within a week or two, then I can move forward with some of my heavier projects.

I'm still looking for an editor.  Hell at this point I'd settle for an English major or the equivalent.  I won't be able to push any of my bigger projects without having someone with a hawkish set of eyes for my Shatner commas and continuous verb tense shifts.


Also, if anyone out there knows any reviewers who might be interested in reviewing some of my work, would you kindly pass them along.  I promise not to bombard them with emoticons or pleading requests.


And to those of you who've read and rated Thirty Minutes, thank you so much.  I appreciate it.  To those who've only read the story, thank you also.  Without readers, a writer's life is pretty damned pointless.