Last week and this week, something massively changed for me. With all the difficulties and distractions I’ve experienced, I managed to get my discipline back in focus and started hitting my writing goals every day. Then, this last weekend, I had a dream with a very interesting concept (to me). That concept I began molding into a book last Sunday. A book I am now ten thousand words into. At the same time, I am writing Gods Eye, while upping my daily word count to two thousand words a day. Today, I wrote 2100 words on Gods Eye and 2100 words on the new book. So now I am writing 4200 words or more each weekday. It kind of blows my mind. I didn’t know I could write at this level so easily.

Roger Bannister was the first to break the four-minute mile barrier on May 6, 1954. The most I have ever written in a single day was 3200 words. I wrote 4500 words on Sunday (on my new novel). I feel a little like he might have. Not knowing I could do so much more.

I wrote my last two novels concurrently. But with the new house, moving, and so many other things, I didn’t start 2026 working on two novels. June seems to have been good to me. That, and the intermittent fasting I have been doing for a month now. During the last month, I’ve lost 17 pounds intermittently fasting. Eating only once a day during a two-hour period, I am enjoying how I feel. Yes, I was hungry a lot when I started; however, it’s like growing your hair long or your beard long. It just takes patience, and take each day for its own. Frankly, I’m surprised I’ve lost so much weight.

On top of all that, I am having a good time!

The new Novel: Being

Conceptually, it is quite different than anything I’ve written so far. First person, set in Texas in 1955, it is a fun romp. It seems like all first-person novels are for me. Sometimes I’m a little reluctant to write first-person because it is so easy for someone like me who has lived his entire life in his head. On top of that, I enjoy larger casts of characters and incredibly detailed stories.

That being said, this is a fun one. I think you will find it that way as well.

So this is the second time I am writing two novels at once. But this time, it seems to be a whole lot easier for me. Maybe I’m growing, gaining clarity during my intermittent fast; I’m not sure. Either way, I like it.

Say hi to Bad Comrade for me, if you’re visiting the MaRP, deep out in the black of Bootes Void.

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I’ve been fasting for the last three weeks. An intermittent fast, now lasting between 22 and 23 hours. Eating one meal a day, I am losing weight, and I feel better. At the same time, I am often distracted with being hungry, usually between ten and noon.

That part, I am not enjoying.

But I am learning some interesting things during this intermittent fast. The awareness of myself is growing in an interesting (to me) way. I can feel my thoughts and emotions much more clearly. My mind seems clearer as well. I like it when the hunger goes away, and all of a sudden, I realize, this must be what the Ancient Greek philosophers spoke about. When the body no longer pulls at you constantly, for eating and more. There is a sense of peace in it. I’m still figuring out how to not eat quite so much at the one meal that I feel bloated for several hours afterward.

My mornings last week were spent taking an individual to a place, then returning, impacting my writing schedule; however, it is only for two weeks, this one and next, then I will be free to get up early and write in the peace and solemnity that creates these violence-torn science fiction environments. I do love writing, it is the getting started part is often the hardest part. There’s always something interesting to distract me. But these are just the normal struggles that come with writing novels.

Life has settled down since we sold our old house, and are now fully present in the new one. I do love the new house, the stonework, the large size, my much larger office/studio, and the amazing golf course view from the large window at the rear of the house. I’ve been selling some gear I don’t think I will use and clearing space. It’s nice to actually have room within my office/studio to do the things I enjoy doing.

Life is peaceful, and I enjoy that.

I think that as you get older, and the calls of the flesh (eating, and other bodily sundry things) should wane. Allowing the philosophical parts of your mind to grow and flourish. My relationship with my beloved is fulfilling and beautiful; I am blessed far more than I deserve.

Oh, the things I know now, at this fine age of sixty-three. So many things I look back over my life were time wasted. However, I would not be here in gratitude and wonder without those experiences. The darkness of the past is the opportunity to learn and become more.

I am glad it is over, those first two-thirds. For this last third is the most delightful, far making up for the horror of my childhood and the even worse first marriage.

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Until this time, I’ve largely avoided Facebook, other than a very small presence. Too many privacy issues, etc. Recently, for additional promotion of my books, I have started adding info/posts/etc. to Facebook. Follow me there if you wish, or don’t, and let the bilinuiss flagitious black hole reach out its gravitational fingers, warping spacetime, and taking you in its deadly grasp.

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I recently upgraded the cover of One Way to Hell – EB the Rabbantine, with imagery that might be what EB actually looks like. Enjoy!

In a moment of subconscious creative contemplation, Solus Infinitus was born.

A coffee table-type book of high-resolution pictorial passages. Available in hardback and softback on Amazon. A compelling, melancholic story that will leave you reflecting on the nature of being alone and the infinite.

From the jacket: Take a voyage to the infinite through a darkly evocative journey of imagery and words that guide you into a place unknown at this time or any other. These profound images will stay with you long after you’ve absorbed them, and perhaps even join you in your dreams late in the night.

A high-resolution pictorial passage meant to grace the finest coffee tables, be it on a starship (perhaps a missile hazard) or a fine hardwood table.

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I often use the images I create for my books as wallpaper on my Mac Studio (with two Apple Studio Displays — I bought it last year, and I love it!). I decided to make a bunch of them available for personal use. You can find them here.

Enjoy!

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(All images are copyrighted)

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Transport Unfriendly Skies – Survivors went live on Amazon yesterday and is free (Kindle version) from Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12:00 AM PST through Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 11:59 PM PST.

This is the second book for Taros, Ivan, and Ave. We see some crossover characters that survived the last Mongruxx book (Until we cross this bridge again), all back in the dirty sands of Sabulo Megalopolis.

From the book jacket:

Ave, Taros, and Ivan are back, joined by an additional crew. Lives are on the line as they make their way through the carryways and skies of Sabulo Megalopolis. Ancient enemies, as well as current contract ones, keep the transport ship Avem Vecto burning hot in the action each mission brings.
Join Ave, Taros, and Ivan for another flight through the unfriendly skies, for they are survivors above all else!

You can also find Taros, Ivan, and Ave as crossover characters for several chapters in One Way To Hell: EB the Rabbantine.

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Errors in Humanity Deux: More Tales from the MaRP went live on Amazon yesterday and is free (Kindle version) from Saturday, February 21, 2026, 12:00 AM PST Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 11:59 PM PST!

This is the second book surrounding the mythos of the MaRP, sitting at the edge of a bilinuiss flagitious black hole ever reaching out its gravitational fingers to warp spacetime, and all around it. Bad Comrade is back, as well as my other bots, you’ve become acquainted with in the first Errors in Humanity – Tales from the MaRP.

From the book jacket:

Deep within the unknowable universe is the vast Bootes Void, is an empty void of Brobdingnagian proportions. At over 330 million light-years across, the emptiness strikes fear into the heart of even the most stalwart. Near the center of this void sits the Tenebris Matter Reclamation Platform, or MaRP for short. It’s a matter reclamation platform sitting at the edge of a supermassive black hole.

Moon sized and built long ago in a far off past, it is inhabited by bots.

These are the dark tales of the bot’s existence: the struggle to give meaning to an artificial life lived on the MaRP, sitting on the edge of an endless death; the constant alien incursions, and the battle to repel them before they can steal ancient technology and perhaps even destroy the MaRP itself. Dark at times, yet also humorous, horror lurks around each corner as they go through each cycle, trying to survive in a place designed for death.

Join them out in the deepest black, where life and death are razor thin and the unfathomable fingers of twisted gravitation pull, mangle, and warp.

We bought a new house, and I am tired.

The whole process of buying a house, having many repairs/improvements, and then finally moving, is exhausting. But we are close to having our home back to “somewhat normal” again. We still have to sell the other home, but that is another story.

I love the new house. It is on the same golf course, about a mile from the other one. The house is larger, the lot bigger, and the view even better (the other house had an awesome view). The neighbors are friendly and it hasn’t really added anything much to the driving. It did, however, put a considerable dent in my writing schedule for the last six weeks, knocking everything back a couple of months.

My office is larger and has room for many of the things I enjoy to be out where I can use them (synthesizers and a new Yamaha YC-88 piano). So hopefully as the year draws down, I will be more active, finish these two books that are in flight, and begin the next ones.

We spent some time outside this morning, just enjoying the cool October morning air and a Maduro Arturo Fuentes cigar. Our four small dogs really enjoyed the time.

Even as I make my way through the current novel I am working on, music compositions seem to float out next to them. Yesterday, I released my 6th Album, this one titled The Great Attractor. All of the music that I have released so far is around the novels and universe I write in and about. As Transport Unfriendly Skies – Survivors winds down, I am internally and externally working on the next book, Gods Eye. For some reason I can’t put my finger on, the music surrounding it felt important. With the release yesterday, that part is complete, and I will move on to working on some other compositions.

Transport Unfriendly Skies – Survivors is moving along at a reasonable pace. Some of the characters in it are from a few of my other books (crossover), and that all adds to the devious fun within it. I’m looking forward to completing it and getting started on Gods Eye. Then we’ll all find out what’s after the end of the rainbow.

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Below is the video I posted to Instagram. Follow me if you like.

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