For those who haven’t been following my Instagram posts, we’ve been busy around here prepping for this seasons garden a little bit early.
In February? Are you insane, you ask?
Well, thanks to a Georgia DOT bridge project, we are losing a portion of our front yard for the next year and a half as they replace the bridge just a few hundred feet down the road. Which in turn means that we have to move all of our garden beds and move the privacy fence back by two panels.
Needless to say, it has been a good bit of manual labor, with a lot more to go before we’re finished. The beds and fence have to be moved by March 1st and we have until the end of March to move all of our plants, which is going to be the real kicker. By the end of March, the temps “should” be warm enough for the transplants to take and establish themselves. So, fingers crossed.
Our Plums and Pomegranates have been in the ground for nine years and finally produced fruit this past year. Those are the ones that I’m most worried about surviving the transplant.
Fruit being moved
- Blackberries
- Blueberries
- Plumb
- Pomegranate
- Viking Aronia Berry (Similar to a black current)
- Beauty Berry
In other news, Smuggler’s Run was received well from the responses and reviews that we’ve gotten and a few weekends ago Christopher Woods and myself disappeared to the Lakehouse for a writing retreat where we managed to plot out the next two books in the Smuggler’s series, write a few chapters as well as managed some additional plotting for the Fallen World and Starflight series.
Not to mention, we signed a few books that Woods had on hand.
Other than all of that, I’ve been a bit on the busy side with all things Starflight and JTF, getting things set up for the publication of the first Starflight anthology as well as the next novel in the JTF series for Three Ravens Publishing.
And on top of all that, I’ve been planning a special Starflight video session that we’ll be recording this coming Monday down at Pie slingers / Phantom Horse Brewing.
Since the title of the upcoming Starflight Anthology is “Tales from the Starport Lounge” I figured a special side tangent might be in order.
Hence all of the mixology experiments recently. 😉
Other than that, the audio for fLUX Runners, narrated by the insanely talented Bryan Stansbury, is now out on Audible.
What if tomorrow, you tasted freedom for the first time, but that freedom came with a cost… After a government-sanctioned privateering mission goes sideways, the crew of the Betty finds themselves fighting for their lives, light-years from home. Prepare yourself for an adventure with a lovable crew of degenerates and misfits as they dive into the dark unknown….
And then then there’s the latest release from The Corner Scribblers, “Take Me To Your Reader.”
Take me to your reader is a collection of fun, serious and wacky stories centered around a first contact with an alien species.
Why?
Because…Aliens!
Foreword and story contribution “the signal” by guest author Dan Hollifield, head editor and owner of Aphelion: The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
And just because our boxer, Conan is such a loveable goofball, I’ll leave you with something that’s sure to put a smile on your face. Check out some of the latest titles from my circle of author friends after the video.
Keep your heads up and your Pens Sharp
~WJR~
The Latest from H.P. Holo
Monsters. Murder. Swashbuckling pug butlers.
J. Chaucey Thatcher has a monster inside him, but this is the least of his worries.
A murderer prowls the Iron City, slaying inventors. An angry mob storms close behind, blaming wizards. Any they find, they burn alive.
Chaucey is an inventor. He is also secretly a wizard, and the only person who can help with this secret was just murdered before his very eyes.
But when it comes to investigating, Chaucey is as dogged as his best friend is dog. With the help of his loyal pug butler, his sparky (almost? maybe?) girlfriend, and a sleuth of rambunctious bears, he has vowed to unravel the mystery of these murders and save the city from the grips of terror.
But the monster inside him burns for escape.
Will he save the Iron City? Or will the monster destroy it first?A smart steampunk adventure for fans of the Parasol Protectorate (Gail Carriger), and the Cinder Spires (Jim Butcher) series!
The Latest from Greyweaver Press
![Sowing Chaos: A Near-Future Thriller (The Collapse Book 1) by [John Babb, William Alan Webb, J. Gunnar Grey]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41j8ZEZSDpL.jpg)
The world’s most reckless villain is determined to see America destroyed.
How do you stop mindless hate? By any means possible. In near-future America, CIA agent Angela Martinelli faces off against the North Korea dictator Kim Jong-un’s plan to bring down the United States. With no thought about how his actions might affect his allies, Kim launched a plan of nuclear and biological terrorism against the United States, and now it’s up to America’s over-stretched counter terrorist forces to stop the state sponsored terrorism… if they can.
The first volume of The Collapse races from crisis to crisis, trailing blood across the globe. From the barbeque pits of Memphis to the deepest vaults of the Pentagon, nobody and nothing is spared. Written by a man who investigated and planned for the very threats Martinelli fights to prevent, the driving force behind this relentlessly suspenseful thriller brings a realism that is terrifying because it is all too possible. Fans of William Alan Webb’s Last Brigade series may think they know what’s coming, but don’t count on it.
The latest from Christopher Woods
![Kade (The Fallen World Book 14) by [Christopher Woods]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51tz8nSsBWL.jpg)
The world has Fallen, but life goes on…
Matthew Kade was a corporate assassin—one of the best Agents Obsidian Corporation had. But then the bombs began falling, and the old world ended. Now he must navigate the new world he finds himself in, a world where the strongest survive, and the weaker do their bidding…or die.
Although Agents were imprinted with the skills they needed for their current mission, when the world Fell, the entire identity database got dumped into his head. With thousands of personalities running around in his noggin, one thing is sure. No matter whether Kade is battling Teledyne Specialists in the streets, Geno Freaks in the sewers, or Zone Warlords in their Scrapers, he’s got an imprint for that.
Enter the Fallen World as seen through the eyes of Kade as he completes five different missions, and then get a special look at the birth of the Kade imprint in Kade: Origin. “Kade” includes six previously released short stories as well as almost 17,000 words of new Kade material.
When bodies began falling from Scrapers, you know Kade is nearby.