And advances in audiobooks
I’m using computer technology to create auto-narrated audiobooks. Race to Refuge is my first such audiobook and, it has already been released on Google Play Books.
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As chickens get older they lay fewer eggs. That’s why about a month ago, I blogged about the new chicks we were raising. However, recently a couple of our older hens have laid some tiny eggs.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
I love a white Christmas, but this is April. Yesterday I awoke to a cold, dark, house. The power had failed, and several inches of snow covered the ground. My wife had a fire roaring in the woodstove by the time I stumbled from the bedroom. After a cup of hot chocolate, heated on the woodstove, I stepped onto the back porch and measured the snow at almost six inches deep.
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Signing a book contract is one of the high points in any writer’s career.
My friend, Debby Lee, has just done that with Barbour Publishing for an 80,000-word romance novel titled, Beneath a Peaceful Moon. I’ve already read most of the novel (even though romance is not my thing) because Debby is a member of the Inklings critique group along with me and five other local writers.
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And chickens at the back.
During the winter the deer come by our house almost daily. Sometimes when snow-covered every bit of pasture, there would be five or six deer waiting near our door in the morning. My wife would talk to them like friends as she tossed out apples for them to eat.
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My wife is not a fan of roosters.
They can be aggressive with people, and they have sharp talons. Also, they crow, often in the middle of the night. Years ago we had a rooster that I named Colonel. He was never aggressive with me, and I easily slept through his predawn crowing. My wife never liked him. I still think she had him killed.
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This morning I woke to the croak and ribbit of hundreds of frogs. We have a small pond near the back of our house. On one side of the pond, the grass is high and the ground is marshy, perfect for these amphibians.
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On the last day of February, the temperature rose to about 54 degrees. That meant I could open the one active hive I had and perform a quick inspection of the bee colony. I knew this colony had survived, but I didn’t know how healthy they were. Dead bees littered the main entrance of the hive.
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I don’t yet have a book cover for Facing the Storm but, you can read chapter one of the exciting third book of the Solar Storms Saga by clicking on the link here.
In this series, several immense coronal mass ejections have hit the Earth, destroying most modern technologies. Panic, starvation, and chaos spread across the world. The series follows several families as they struggle to survive and restore some semblance of civilization.
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Due to the COVID virus, last year’s Southwest Washington Writers Conference had to be canceled. I helped organize and spoke at the first SWW Conference back in 2014, and so this was a disappointment. A few weeks ago, I heard that the sponsoring organization no longer wished to continue with the conference. This compounded my disappointment.
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I’m hopeful that the year 2021 will see the end of COVID, masks, and lockdowns. I want to do the simple things that many of us once did without a thought, go out to dinner, see a movie, and hear a live concert.
Every year, in December and early January, I plan out my professional goals. This year my main goal is to finish two books that are way past the deadline because of the vasculitis that hit me hard in late 2018. I wrote about that here.
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