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The Lifting Lab: Airships to Order

Welcome to . . . what do you mean this is unprecedented?  Look, I’m really busy here since airships are a new technology.  Half of what we make even lasts a month before crashing, bursting into flames, or not working. … Continue reading →

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7 Tips to Putting Vehicles in Fiction

Make sure the vehicles fit the world.  Riding a horse through a futuristic utopia that has spaceships everywhere might seem cool, but it could be very impractical.  Then again, you might not consider a horse a vehicle since it’s alive. … Continue reading →

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LIVE on Amazon! CHASING BEDLAM! #ValentinesDay #99cents #scifi #ASMSG

Return to the Shattered States for a tale of love between a woman & her jeep! Lloyd and Cassidy’s last adventure was to honor a life. This time they are out to end one. It was a normal, violent mission to … Continue reading →

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Dirty Dan’s Discount Cars & Bikes: All Trades Welcomed

Welcome to Dirty Dan’s where we supply the good, bad, pretty, ugly, and desperate of the Shattered States.  You can’t get very far without a vehicle and I see that you have plenty of canned beans to trade.  Not that … Continue reading →

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Did Things Go To Plan? HA HA HA!

Chasing Bedlam Coming Next Week! The hope is I’ll get it set up on Monday and make the big announcement on Tuesday, which is when I’ll send the HTML to all the volunteers.  Thank you again for helping out with … Continue reading →

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Angry Hero Anonymous Meeting: Now With Glow in the Dark Nametags

Timoran Wrath– “I guess we are supposed to talk about our tempers.  Not really sure why I am here since I have control over mine.” Lloyd Tenay–  “Same here.  The kid can be a bit of a rager though.” Cassidy- … Continue reading →

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Guest Post with Lyn Horner: Lara and Delvin in ‘Talk of Destiny’

(Today we have Lyn Horner and Lara Spenser from Rescuing Lara, which is available on Amazon.  Also, don’t forget to check out Legends of Windemere: the Spirit Well to get more of Delvin Cunningham.) The sound of clacking practice swords filled the air … Continue reading →

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Smack on the Nose & Spritz with the Water Bottle

Angry heroes can really cause a mess.  It isn’t that they don’t know about hygiene or can’t figure out how to use a vacuum.  More that they lose control and attack the nearest person or object.  Yes, that hat rack … Continue reading →

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History Meets Fiction: A Requested Tale

Quiall made the following request: “What about taking an individual from the news or history and having them interact with characters from your books.” Now, I wasn’t sure what to do here because I don’t trust myself to do justice … Continue reading →

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Why So Angry, Hero?

I like writing angry characters.  Something about having a hero unleash their rage makes me put a lot more into a scene.  Yeah, I’m probably angry a lot myself, which is why I connect to this emotion more than others. … Continue reading →

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