
And if you’re done with all your cooking and everything…. And haven’t read all my books yet… Or you need a last minute ebook gift for someone…
These are ALL on sale for 99c:
Odd Magics: Tales for the Lost

Odd Magics
This is a very strange collection of fairytales, recast for modern life. In it the prize isn’t always to the fairest, the
magic is rarely to the strongest.
But lonely introverts do find love, women who never gave it a thought find themselves at the center of romance.
Doing what’s right will see you to the happily ever after.
And sometimes you have to kiss an accountant to find your prince.
Darkship Revenge (Darkship Thieves Book 5)

The World Can’t Be Made Safe….
But it doesn’t mean Athena Hera Sinistra isn’t ready to try. Flying back to Earth Orbit from her asteroid home, leaving behind unresolved questions and turmoil, Athena becomes a new mother in orbit.
As is perhaps fitting, her daughter is born during battle with an unknown foe.
A battle that ends with Kit – Athena’s husband – missing, and Athena’s ship damaged.
So Athena names her daughter Eris, and goes to war.
What follows is a non-stop fight by a very angry mother, who wishes to make the world(s) safe for her newborn daughter, and other children too.
When the adventure is over, it is just the start of another, where children will be rescued, old tyrants brought to justice, and freedom restored.
Lucius Dante Maximillian Keeva was born a prince…
or so close to it as makes no difference. He is the son of one of the fifty Good Men who — between them — partition and rule all of the Earth.
But for the last fourteen years, he’s been imprisoned in a small cell, in what amounts to solitary confinement.
You can’t stay sane in solitary confinement that long, not even if someone supplies you with reading material.
When Luce escapes, he finds that his family is dead and people are trying to kill him. He doesn’t respond as a sane man would.
It is just as well.
Restoring a constitutional republic to a world gone mad, five hundred years after the fabled USA vanished from the face of the Earth is not a job for a sane man.
And Luce Keeva is just the madman for the job.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it.
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Merry Christmas!
Happy Hannukkah!
Festivus for the rest of us.
GRONK! HRRRAAAHHurrrrrAaaaahhghUUURRRRkk. (The Wookies will get it.)
Qaplah!
If I missed someone, happy day /party on / the daytimes now get longer / hoorah! / Be Blessed!
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Merry, merry, happy, happy to you and yours, and all the ones who post to this blog!
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Friends and hangers on:
Grimesland, North Carolina, USA is a coastal town, such that the Tar River there is mildly influenced by the tides. Nevertheless, one man with foresight and planning gave his kids a white Christmas:
https://www.witn.com/2024/12/24/father-creates-winter-wonderland-front-yard-home/
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Merry Christmas! And happy early Hanukkah!
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Merry Christmas! (Dropped a bit in the GSG. May 2025 be a Good Year!)
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THANK you. And yes. May it. The kids have left, so I’m going to be either editing or writing here in a few minutes.
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Merry (belated) Christmas! And as a public service to all the authors here, I offer this:
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/12/27
😉😁😁😁
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Merry Third Day of Christmas, the Feast of St. John the Apostle
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Nollaig shona dhaoibh is go méadaí Dia bhur stór san athbhliain!
A happy Christmas to ye all, and may God increase your treasure in the new year!
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Jan 20, 2025 Can’t get here fast enough.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah.
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It is indeed a blessed day and a blessed confluence.
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Merry Christmas to all and great thanks to Sarah for all the work on this blog.
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You’re very welcome!
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Opened presents together. Our son gave me a copy of, “Pete and Pickles,” by Berke Breathed. Pete is a pig, a very practical, set-in-his-ways pig. Until he finds an escaped circus elephant named Pickles in his bedroom. Pickles is anything but set in her ways. And she drags Pete along with her…
I’m Pete. My beloved is Pickles. And if you can get through the book without crying you’re harder of heart than I am. Very similar in tone to your Christmas stories, which is a compliment to both of you.
Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas and don’t those covers look great?!
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Well, I like them. Particularly the first one which is GREAT work by Caitlin Walsh.
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Maybe for you. :-P
Last night I flushed the toilet and the handle broke off. Fortunately I had already picked up replacement parts, because the flapper valve has been leaking and the handle felt a bit wonky.
So my Christmas present is fixing the toilet. Yay.
Then again, I got myself an early Christmas present last month — a big heavy-duty tile saw. Works great. I shaved off the wrong edge of a tile yesterday, but that wasn’t the saw’s fault.
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we need so much stuff done to this house it’s not even funny….
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Broke toilet, no flood….
Christmas miracle.
(grin)
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Nah, the handle breaking off doesn’t cause a flood (or a Flood!). You just have to reach inside the tank to flush. Not how it’s supposed to work.
They need to bring back the old toilets that had the tank mounted on the wall at head-height. Generates a lot more head pressure, flushes better with less water. That’s what the Leftroids want, right? Convenience and efficiency?
Right?
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Merry Christmas!!! :)
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Merry Christmas!
And now, Happy Chanukah!
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All of that. Keep the lights burning.
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What is this “home repair” you speak of? Apartment living does have its advantages, at least when the apartment house is well-managed.
We’ve got relatives, a sister in-law, her daughter, and her daughter’s husband in from overseas. Plus, two of our three daughters managed to make it into town, along with one son-in-law. Presents this morning, then Korean barbecue in Alexandria this evening. I’m stuffed and sleepy. And satisfied — I’ve got it pretty damned good, if I say so myself!
Blessings of the Season, Y’All!
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah, y’all!
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About that last book cover, though — 500 years in the future, mullets are still a thing? :-D
Although, if the ‘Good Men’ brought them back, that is true evil.
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Not a mullet, but it might look like that, yes.
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That’s from the other unpublished version,
“A Few Good Ol’ Boys”
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Merry Christmas to all, and highly recommend ALL the books!
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