BACK FROM MARS

When I was a teenager, my buddy and I used to haunt the used book stores in Glendale, CA, mostly looking for English literature and science fiction. In one place we visited often, the owner remembered us and our taste in books. Whenever we would come in he would say, "Hey,boys. Back from Mars?"

So if that's your question, the answer is: "Why, yes. I'm back from Mars."

Been a while, I know. My last post here ("Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!") was nearly nine years ago. Maybe some day I'll get into what happened in the meantime.

(And maybe I won't.)

In the meantime, I've kept writing (mostly; see the post called "Discipline"). As a result, there's been a few new items put up on KDP.

(I'll have to relearn how to add thumbnail images of stuff, linked to Amazon.)

HOT MINUTE is a one volume version of HOT STATUS and MAD MINUTE, inspired by my Army hitch at an air-defense missile base out on Sandy Hook, NJ. (They all got dismantled after the first SALT agreement, on account of there were nukes involved.)

And VERTIGO NATION, fiction in the category of guns-and-politics, about a group of neo-Nazis trying to figure out how to support Donald Trump should he lose the 2020 election and need help defending himself in a White House he was unwilling to vacate.

Also, there's a sort of crime novel called HALF-PRICE HIT MAN: BLACK FRIDAY. The first of several in that series. It's going up soon.

I'm making notes on a sequel, so I'm holding off posting the first volume in case I need to make adjustments that would be useful to the second book.

I realize this thinking smacks of procrastination. It's always possible to throw up a revised version of anything on KDP. It's one of the most useful features of independent publishing. But what if the worse thing happens, and the first volume gets a lot of downloads? Do I really want to swap big things around in a second edition? I'll let you know how that works out, when it works out.

Okay, that's enough for now. Let's see if I can post this thing...