So?

So, I've been putzing around with Facebook and let this place sort of linger. My bad. I'll be here more often in the coming days.

B3 is in the final stages. The editor estimates another couple of weeks, then it comes back to me, then it's yours...so yeah, I can say it's coming in October. Finally. I know, there's no reason to celebrate - it's over a year late. But I'm still happy.

Moving forward, we've decided to break up IO (again), but this time into novel-sized chunks and book 1 is almost done. It's not for financial reasons, and you'll end up spending the same for the full story, but breaking it up will make it more manageable in the long run.

Afterwards, I'll take a short break from Blackjack and IO and try for something else in the meantime. Right now it looks like Heart of the Jungle. Then back to Blackjack for what is tentatively called B4: Messiah.

About the book titles, I don't know who talked me into NOT putting the semi-colon, but right now I want to strangle them. It's stupid, I know, but it's kind of implied anyway. I might go back and edit everything.

Another thing, I was looking over at B1 the other day and I saw my presidential prediction for this coming cycle: Jeb Bush. First of all, I want to apologize to all the Democratic readers for implying that the Reps are going to win it in the first place, but I also want to apologize to Republicans far and wide for putting forward such a feeb. Yeah, that dude totally sucks, and I should know, I lived through his governorship. I think people from all sides of the political spectrum can agree that Jeb is a special kind of jaggof. Blackjack Wayward corrected the error, making the president a make-believe character, but since I made her a woman, some of you might assume I meant her to be Hillary. Nope. I just like the idea of a woman president - not necessarily her in particular. I'm raising a daughter and it'd be nice to tell her, "you can become anything," and actually mean it. The next president (who will factor into B4) is going to be Asian. Don't ask me how these people serve such short presidencies in my book, I don't have a logical answer.

Enough about politics anyway, B3 is coming soon, and I’m going to try for the follow-up around the same time next year, getting Blackjack back on course.

Thanks for everything, and I look forward to your comments and questions.