I woke up this morning, after taking a certain medication, and realized how much pain I have been in over the last six months or so. Like a frog in a cool pot of water, with the temperature gradually rising, I thought it was due to old age. I am 63, after all.

Nope.

Damn it! I wish I’d paid more attention the last time this happened. The chickenpox virus can cause you quite a bit of pain as you get older. Fortunately, there’s an old medication that works on nerves (Gabapentin), and today, I feel significantly better. I am amazed at how my mind attributed this slow oncoming of pain to everything but what it actually was.

Diary it, as I wish to be reminded at least twice a year.

Gods Eye will be back from the editor soon. After that, it is accepting the changes, formatting work, and image checking/positioning, etc. So I am on schedule for the release of Gods Eye, and then, less than a month later, Being.

During the in between times, or in parlance of another upcoming coffee table book (Volume 2, Robotus Infinitus) the Before times, I am about to finish Robotus Infinitus. It has come together so much better than planned, and is a direct tie in to the novel I am currently working on, Endless Skies. There are wallpaper images (large ones) for Endless Skies that show some of the characters in their habitats, bots that they are. Endless Skies also has a connection to Gods Eye, as they both are placed at the Great Attractor, the infinite end of everything. At least in this part of the observable universe. I think there is so much more than that. Septillions of times more, for space is endless and expanding semi-uniformly at 40% the speed of light.

I feel the old pull of my first book love, the Mongruxx again. So I may reshuffle the order of the next five or so books awaiting the master’s hand. This will be book number five for the Mongruxx. There is so much story to tell; it will take a good while to get it all down on paper (or Ones and Zeros as it may be).

Endless Skies (Current Novel being written)

The Next Mongruxx Novel – Mongruxx Infinitus Maris (An endless sea)

I’ve been taking an online class to work on my modular music. I have a lot of gear, but I have hardly used it. Mostly because it feels like a steep learning curve. Well, this class has caused me to learn, LEArne, LEARN!

Learn ’til it hurts!

So that has been what I’ve been doing between finishing up Gods Eye and Being. I’m excited about it, because after several days of brain-torturing work, I am starting to get it.

At least a little bit.

At least to the point where it is almost fun to do. I’m not quite there, but I’m getting close. With that said, part of the class is making videos. This is my best one so far. It’s here and on my YouTube channel.

Enjoy!

One of my favorite book series has always caused me to keep a notation of which books are read in what order. Because it mattered for the storyline. So It’s inspired me to add a page here, accessed at the top, called Timeline. It shows the current books (and the ones about to come out) and will be added to or rebuilt as more books are written and published.

Thank you for reading and sharing this universe with me.

Robert

The pre-orders for Being and Gods Eye are now available (Kindle version only). The paperback books will be released around the same time frame.

Gods Eye Pre-Order Link – Release Date 10/31/2026

An impossible mission across the vastness of space and time.
To the end of everything, in our observable universe, the Great Attractor. A motley group of bots, many from the MaRP, located out in the depths of Bootes Void. Where the Tenebris Matter Acquisition Reclamation Platform, or MaRP, hovers just ahead of the event horizon of an incredibly large black hole. These twice-wrought, void hardened bots crew the Vagari Orbita, or VORB. A starship 90 miles in length, capable of incredible jumps through Curvet space. Along with the bot Hum’ahn crew, meat-sack Hum’ahnity, whose mind slices have been captured as one, they are on a mission outside of spacetime. To observe, to be the first, to reach the Bipolar Repeller, the Shapley Attractor, and the Great Attractor. With perhaps a chance to see what lies where the river ends. A difficult trip, with an untested crew, some more black-hearted than others.
Bad Comrade and Doc are back, versioned copies that make them regret their semi-poor choices on the MaRP and beyond.

Come find out with us what we might be capable of understanding, at the edge of everything.

The Great Attractor is waiting.

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Being Pre-Order Link – Release Date 11/30/2026

This is the story of Being, a time-travelin’, space alien from another dimension, as told from the eyes of Daniel. Set in 1950s Texas, when hard men were still making Texas what it is today, and women were damned glad of it. Traveling together in a worn old Ford F100, their journey takes them far and beyond anything that Daniel or Ella, a possibly non-corporeal friend, could have possibly expected. Surprises and twists will keep you near the edge of your seat, hopefully without falling off. Through this traveling, roughshod journey of strange events, a friendship grows between something so alien that Hum’ahn’s cannot even begin to conceptually understand it, and Daniel. A former chicken farmer, now fellow traveler with Being.

Evocative, exciting, funny, and scary, you may find yourself wishing to indeed have the opportunity to engage with a Being.

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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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