Author: admin
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Excerpt from Measure Of Adulthood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood. There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show. My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years. The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…
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Excerpt from The End Of Childhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP I didn’t particularly need to be involved in the older boys’ lesson, but it was a good way to be interacting with my kids without distracting them from their lessons. I couldn’t help Alden or Imtara in theirs as they were beyond my learning thus far in what they…
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Excerpt from The Price Of Power
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a Ilras, quit trying to squirt your sister with ketchup. The inverse square law is on her side. But mom! I’m just trying to teach her defense! Meanwhile, baby Imtara giggled in delight at frustrating her brother’s dastardly plan. Dear, even if she was asleep, she’d have plenty of time…
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Excerpt from The Invention of Motherhood
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD Later, Asto and I were in our quarters. He’s a tall, thin Guardian; the body type sometimes known as ‘hound’ on Earth. Six feet six, broad shoulders, long legs, and thin as a whip, except for tiny little bulges here and there, intended to give him a reserve of…
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Excerpt From Moving The Pieces
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa It was hard to believe she was gone. For over an Earth century, Sephia had been the commander of Bolthole Base. She’d been the one constant, unchangeable thing about the mission on Calmena. The base was four times the size it had been when I started, Calmena itself was…
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Excerpt from Setting The Board
Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK You play with fire, you’re going to get burned. Abraham Lincoln once observed, “Nearly all men can stand adversity. If you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” It might scandalize my fellow Americans to say it, but Mr. Lincoln failed his own test by almost any…
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Release Date For Bubbles Of Creation and sale announcement!
Bubbles of Creation, the third book of Connected Realms, will be released May 7, 2025 Available on Amazon for pre-order Kindle link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4NW9LFF The paperback has been finalized and will be available but for some reason it doesn’t show until the book goes ‘live’ Paperback link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4PNL2PP (It will be available on all the Books2Read…
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Simple Cooking for Beginners and Dads – Potato Wedges
Restaurants have kind of moved away from wedges. But if you like something with a little bit of fried taste and a fluffy interior like a baked potato, they are dead simple. The recipe I start with needs 1 cookie sheet, 1 mixing bowl, 1 sharp knife, 1 measuring cup, and 1 measuring spoon. It’s…
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Excerpt from Building The People
Amazon link:https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072J6YML1 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxA The forges of N’yeschlass began their beat at dawn, every day without fail. Things had changed since we began. The town had never been officially named. The name had grown from the unofficial motto of what my wife and I and the original group of refugees cowering in the jungle…
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Release Date for Bubbles Of Creation
The release date for Bubbles of Creation has been set to May 7, 2025 Expect a cover announcement soon. It will be the third and final novel in the Connected Realms series, featuring Alexan as main character. I do have ideas for two additional novels in the same setting, likely using Alexan and Petra’s children…