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Link to book 6

Link to book 6

There it is.  

I'm getting reports that the cover may not be displaying for all people on the book's page.  That is supposed to be fixed by the morning.  

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Its been submitted

Usually takes a few hours for it to come up.  But that also means certain things have to come down.  

Edit:  

And done, all chapters pulled due to KDP requirements of not having chapters available at other locations. &nb...

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So I botched the Pre-Order

Rolled double 1's.  Very disappointing.

Book Six, Nautical Noobs,  is coming out on THURSDAY of this week.  The 9th.  

Basically, I thought I had pre-built the pre-order and I pre-didn't which prevented the pre-publ...

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So what does finishing a noobtown book look like?

Sarah, my wife and editor is busily cracking away on book 6.  She's in the finale right now and is just about done for the night.  As of right now, we have 66 more pages to go.  

After she is done I have to do a stat check, my...

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78 more pages

Book 6 is down to the last 78 pages.  This weekend I'm going to get a pre-order setup which should be fun.  When the book actually releases I have to take ALL the Book 6 chapters down per my Amazon agreement so that's the hidden signal t...

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How's the Editing Going?

Pretty well, actually.  So I of course suspect a trap.  In total, every single time I've gotten in stride to finish the book some horrible thing happens and everything goes tits up on me.  At this point, I'm actually thinking that w...

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Toasty 6: The Guardian Angel

Chapter 6

Toasty raced down the hallway.  His Admiral was in danger and if she died it would be terrible.  She couldn’t eat breakfast.  Toasty couldn’t even contemplate a world where breakfast was not served, no matter h...

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Stuff I'm reading

So between editing, revising a few points in the last draft, and tinkering with my latest book I've come to a conclusion.  Don't work in healthcare during a pandemic.  But book is still progressing and that's the important bit.   View Post

No Toasty this week

Major writers block coupled with lots of editing have stopped my progress on the Toasty story.  I'll resume next week after my batteries recharge.  

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Toasty: Chapter 5, The Engineering Watch

Chapter 5: 

Toasty was furious.  How dare ANYONE ruin his admiral’s breakfast.  It was enough to drive a toaster to distraction.  If he found the errant breakfast eater that had caused this dilemma, he was going to ha...

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Toasty 4: The biscuit Maker

Chapter 4 - The Biscuit Maker

If a rover could vomit, Toasty that would be what Toasty would be doing right now.

While he could hold onto the hex driver while it was in use, he wasn’t strong enough to hold his wheels down, too. &nb...

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8/22 Author Chat Canceled

I'm unavailable for this weeks chat.  I will return next week.  

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Toasty Chapter 3

Chapter 3 - Contemplation

Toasty wasn’t able to go into a proper sleep cycle while he was in the hallway.  It wasn’t because he couldn’t recharge.  The dock was, thankfully, functioning properly, even with the rest of the s...

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Toasty Chapter 2

Chapter 2 - Serving Toast

Toastbot sat quietly at his place in the center of the admiral’s table, as was befitting a robot of his station.  He was, after all, the admiral’s personal Toastbot.  Regardless of what the navy said...

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While I'm waiting

So my book is being edited, a process that takes weeks, and I'm bored... so as I was driving across Ohio I realized a hilarious idea for a serial story involving a toaster.  This is a scifi story for Vella that isn't impacting my book 6 writi...

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August Newsletter

Its a Newsletter for August.  

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Second Draft

COMPLETED.  Now letting the Alpha's chew on it to see if it fixed the problem's in the first draft.  Hint, I think it does.  Love the ending.  So good.  I'm riding the a draft is done high, so this is all going to be how a...

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Badgelor is on Urban Dictioary.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=badgelor

I am pleased.  

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Book is entering into the final phase

I'm up to 127k words and the final two chapters (maybe 3).  After that the book just needs edited and I think we are game.  Phew.  I am just about to start really thinking about book 7.  

Estimated word count is going to ...

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So the book is going to be longer than I though

I know you are all broken up about that.  I had so many good scenes that I couldn't legitimately remove any of them, and I just had to expand the word count to cover them.  I'm expecting to have this done and over to the editor in a week...

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Nearly Ready for the MERGE (of Doom)

I've rewritten the front of the book, fixed the plotting issues there and now all I have to do is merge the second half of the book back onto it and boom... we got a novel.  Mind you, tons of rewrites will be required to get everything up to ...

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Figured out the problems, progress is going well

I just needed to step back to review the story to see what was going right and what was going wrong with the book.  Ultimately, the issue wasn't that the writing was bad, or that it wasn't engaging on some level.  The issue was that the ...

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Rewrites ahoy

So my alpha readers are saints.  Saints who tell me bad news with a smile.  Okay who tell me bad news.  Mostly bad news.  

So my first draft of Book6 leaves quite a bit to be desired.  I'm seeing some serious structu...

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I survived the Big Easy.

Good news, my liver works.  Worse news, I think I drunk just about all of the alcohol in New Orleans.  I vaguely recall that I was writing a book, but in my drunken haze I had a realization and will have to rewrite a few bits of book 6. ...

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Badgelor in the Big Easy

Well, sometimes I have to travel for my work and this is one of those weeks.  I'm busy finishing up Book 6, and several days here will recharge my batteries, probably.  I mean, its just New Orleans... what else is there to do around here...

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Noob Game Plus Audiobook

Its not called the Noobiest Noob in all of Noobtown, even though that was my editors preference.  If I ever do an expanded edition, It might be the noobiest edition however.  The audio book is releasing on the 25th and its AWESOME.  ...

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Crushing it

So I've had two 5k word days recently as I've managed to flush out the ending of the book, setup book 7, and get this thing nearly done.  I'm really satisfied with how book 6 is rolling out and the word count is getting up there.  I'm ov...

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World Domination for fun and profit

So I'm working on the usual list of stuff for a late term book.  Tying the plot together with a pretty little bow and making sure that everything flows well.  

Tweaking the final battle so its just right.

Getting the characte...

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April Newsletter


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Splitting up Book 6 is hard to do

My original outline for book 6 included a bit of time on a boat, followed by some time in town, followed by more time in a boat.  However, as I began to write the story, I found out that I missed Windfall and that section kept expanding more ...

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