Urk.

So, I’m having problems–probably browser related–doing the big, showy links with images. If I want to post them, I have to use MS Edge, which I hate for myriad reasons. Oh, it’s functional enough, but…it doesn’t seem to have a free, basic ad blocker plugin…and I’ve had a lot of auto-play ads try to shove malware into my system.

So I stick with Firefox, for the most part. Because I can and do use a basic ad blocker here.

Anyway. I’ve got the entire set of The Schrodinger Paradox finished and published. I’m trying to get a cover done so I can publish a hard copy of all three parts, ideally in hardback and paperback. When I get that together, I’ll also do a kindle omnibus.

I am…not great…at most of the non-writing parts of book creation. And I’m even worse with pushing my work. And it doesn’t help that I can’t pay for ads, even if they don’t seem to do much for a lot of people.

I did get Liquid Diet Chronicles: Whine in a Box finished. In first draft form. It’s out with some of my beta readers, now. One has reported in. Once I get more feedback, I’ll work toward getting it edited/revised and rolled out in January.

I’ve also gotten some short stories written and started collecting them. Watch for Faerie Gifts sometime next year–probably just after Spring Break, toward the end of March/beginning of April. I’m struggling with one of the stories which seems to be heading toward novella length. If it goes too long–into short-novel territory–I may put it out by itself, and work on a few more stories in the collection.

Once I finish writing those, I’m going to start revising Certified Public Assassin before I hand it off to beta readers. I’m planning–and, like everything else in my life, that “plan” only barely qualifies as a plan–on having that one ready to go sometime next summer, or early fall.

I’m planning at least one or two more in the Liquid Diet Chronicles (or at least, I have overall plot ideas for one or two more), and I’ve got a couple of other ideas I’d been putting off writing. And I’ve got between now and next May to get any and all first drafting done.

Once I get the current stuck-turd of a story out of the way of doing any writing on anything but it.

Honestly, though, I haven’t had a lot of time or mental energy to write, recently–summer break saps my focus. Or rather, destroys my ability to focus on anything except ignoring the TV and listening for squabbling that I either have to step in to mediate, or shut down, depending on what time of day it happens, how vicious it gets, and/or it seems to be feeding on itself to really upset moody teen/barely pre-teen kids.