1st goal

The first draft of Billy Bob's Oasis is finished (hooray). Now it's on to the less satisfying work.😎😎 

Progress

Just passed the usual psychological barrier (40K) on "Billy Bob's Oasis." Noah finds new information and he's following up on it, but is somewhat hesitant to go further. He will keep the newly found information under wraps until the appropriate time to reveal it.

Subscription benefits

An American reader decided to dig into the Peter Dawes series, beginning with the first: Massacre at Fort Sage. He or she liked that one enough to plow through the next three, all complete. If the appetite for the old west persists there's one book left in the series and we'll have to see whether his/her taste is sated or whether that individual has to finish the series.

So, the answer is the reader was not sated with my novels. Finished Ghastly, Grotesque and Gruesome and then read half-way through the second novel published by Create Space: Four in a Row.

Pleasing to know that there are still readers out there and that my work is both entertaining and interesting enough to encourage them to forge ahead with more.

September 8, 2025

I'm a beneficiary of Amazon's subscription service that allows a subscriber to access all the books in their library. For example, an Italian (male/female) has read five of my listed books--complete--in the past few days. I have no way of knowing whether this welcomed attention will continue, but on his/her side of the Atlantic, the Italian definitely has got his/her money's worth out of that particular subscription. 

New novel

New novel: "Billy Bob's Oasis" is well into production. Lots of characters and a water color by Peter Meadowsong will grace the cover. Ostensibly, the story is about a freelance writer and his competitor, both writing for the same magazine and both tasked to investigate the ins and outs of global warming and climate change. A murder will complicate their efforts and we'll have to see how that turns out. 

Finished

ROT-CEE is out in both paperback and digital formats. It's a long book and should give you plenty of good reading as you make your way from front to back. Jim Garrett and his friend Andy Grimes have graduated and have been commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army. What lies in store for them on the Korean peninsula is an unknown that raises their anxiety levels. It's probably a roll of the dice and not something to worry about every minute of the day. Go with them as they become part of what was originally called "A police action," but has become the Korean War.

ROT-CEE

Finished the first draft today. All the usual work still lies ahead, but now it looks like the book will actually be published. Got the ending I visualized and we'll see whether it works as I go through an edit of the work.