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'Good Medicine - Residency I' (aka GM9) on Bookapy

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Good Medicine - Residency I (GM9) is now on Bookapy (release date tomorrow, 2024-03-15)

The book consists of 76 chapters and approximately 480,000 words.

I will begin posting chapters to SOL on April 15, 2024, in my usual chapter-a-day way.

Status Update AWLL, GM, and CTL

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Earlier this week, I posted the final chapter of Climbing the Ladder — Climbing Higher (aka CTL3). I hope you've enjoyed the story.

I have completed writing Good Medicine — Residency I (aka GM9). It consists of 76 chapters and approximately 480,000 words. I will post it to Bookapy on March 15, 2024, and I will begin posting chapters to SOL on April 15, 2024.

I am continuing to write the next volumes of all three series.

As always, in-progress books are available via my support sites. See my author profile page for details.

Good Medicine - Book 4 - Senior Year [Updated]

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I have updated Good Medicine - Book 4 - Senior Year. I've corrected grammar, word usage, and punctuation. I've also incorporated all the corrections sent to me by readers.

I have also acted on the feedback about the way Russian is used in the story. I have eliminated the lexicon in favor of inline transliteration and inline translation.

The story did not change. If you're keeping an eBook version, you may want to download a new copy.

A revised digital edition has been submitted to Bookapy, so if you purchased a copy, you should automatically receive the updated version.

A Note on Style

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You may have noted words with two dots over a vowel in my writing. The mark is a dieresis, not an umlaut — they are two different diacritical marks. To my knowledge, only The New Yorker magazine still uses it (well, besides me). [Search for 'the curse of the dieresis New Yorker', as external links aren't permitted in blog entries which show up on the feed]

The dieresis is a generally deprecated way of indicating that a pair of consecutive vowels are not a diphthong. For printers, they generally substituted a hyphen to reduce the number of letters in their fonts, and eventually, hyphens mostly (but not completely) disappeared. Over time coöperate became co-operate then cooperate.

I have consistently used it in 'naïve' since day one, but over time have added others. I also still use diacritical marks on other words where most have dropped them (e.g. maître d'hôtel) and words where they are necessary for clarity (e.g. résumé for a CV; resume to restart something),

I also have a quirky style that mixes US English and International (aka 'British') English (e.g. using 'afterwards' and 'amongst' rather than 'afterward' and 'among' and using 'litre' and 'theatre' instead of the US-standard 'liter' and 'theater'). I also play around with archaic words such as 'baxter' (a female baker), and obscure words, such as 'canapé' (something you sit on, not something you eat).

English is a magnificent bastard tongue (as linguist John McWhorter has called it) and I like to make full use of it!

Good Medicine - Book 3 - Junior Year [Updated]

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I have updated Good Medicine - Book 3 - Junior Year. I've corrected grammar, word usage, and punctuation. I've also incorporated all the corrections sent to me by readers.

I have also acted on the feedback about the way Russian is used in the story. I have eliminated the lexicon in favor of inline transliteration and inline translation.

The story did not change. If you're keeping an eBook version, you may want to download a new copy.

A revised digital edition has been submitted to Bookapy, so if you purchased a copy, you should automatically receive the updated version.

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