FozzieBare: Blog

I was going to title this: Getting there may be Half the fun, but it's all the Pain.. but I couldn't fit that in with the true purpose of this blog post, so.. you get it here instead.

So, in and out of the hospital, as they try different things to manage my pain and to deal with my blood pressure. I try to tell them they're both related, because, well, DUH.. but eh. what can you do.

Except bitch about it a lot.

However, I want to make this more then yet another "FozzieBare is not happy about his health" post, so I decided to put some effort into this post (for a change, I can hear the snarkers say in the back..)

Here's some of the authors I really enjoy. Some of them are still producing new content, others have stopped writing, some of them have disappeared, and sadly, some of them are no longer with us. But I wanted to start a discussion on what authors you love, and hopefully we can all tell each other stories that may have slipped by that would make good reading.

Jay Cantrell I've mentioned Jay as a great author before. He writes long epic tales that manage to be both hot AND full of realistic story-telling. Daze in the Valley is my favorite, but seriously, I don't think you can go wrong with any of his work.

Warlord He had several EPIC stories going, including Wild West, Warlord, Scout and the Sea Cruise series (Fun fact: Scout was the impetus to start writing Free Trader Mary's Dream). Sadly, he's drifted away from writing, and a lot of his stories are still unfinished. Here's hoping someday we will have a finish to them.

Colt45: unlike Warlord, most of his stories are complete. The Sea King series and the Mayhem series are my favorites, and I hope someday we will see a Mayhem 5, where Tink finally gets her man (Read the Mayhem series to understand that reference).

SirNathan: For those of you with a BDSM type kink, SirNathan has some GREAT stories that can guide you into that world. A lot of those stories tend to replace telling a believable story with wild acts, both of a non-consensual and consensual manner that would require a doctor's visit, if not a lengthy hospital stay or worse. So, amongst the more "hardcore" stories, this is a welcome break. My personal favorite is Culture Shock. If you ever wanted to understand a submissive's nature and how they get into the lifestyle, you MUST read it.

Don Lockwood . Want a bunch of nice, sweet, stories about believeable, relateable people? Look no further. He's no longer writing, at least that I know of.. (he originally posted under another name), but I still re-read Dance of a Lifetime AT LEAST once a year.

Also, one of the greatest compliments I ever got while writing was when I mentioned I had released one of my first stories (It's My Party) on SOL. He said to me "Foz, this is the kind of story I like to write!" and it was high praise.

Al Steiner Got a few hours/days/weeks to kill? Re-read his books. Some of them are actually out on Amazon now (the Intemperance series), and I think he was one of the first "re-run history" authors here on SOL with Doing It All Over, which is my favorite work.

bluedragon: There are long stories, and there are smutty stories, and then there's bluedragon, who writes both very well. I joked one time that you can tell if you're the lead character in a bluedragon story if your genitalia is about to fall off, not from disease, but from overuse ;)

To prevent this from being multiple pages of fanboy gushing in one post (so, I can spread it out), I'll mention some of the other authors that I like, and will go into more detail in a future post.

Lazlo Zalezac
rlfj
The Night Hawk (Kelly! Once More With Feelings! Why didn't I do the full link.. ok.. stop gushing Foz, you can tell them more later.)
Douglas Fox
Lubrican

been a rough week, BARELY avoided a hospital stay earlier in the week (Protip: Your doctor gets really worried when your blood pressure reading starts with a 2 (eek)). But I was able to get oot and aboot (as a couple of my Canadian friends would say briefly.

Right now, I feel like that bit from the Princess' Bride. you know, the one where Miracle Max says

There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive.

I guess you could call me slightly alive right now.

So, I've had a couple health issues flare up over the holidays and into 2019. Just a bit of background, I'm in my mid-40's and suffer from a variety of ailments, mostly of the arthritic and immune-system related. It allows me to joke that "At 25, I thought I was hip. Now, I'm 44 and closer to hip replacement than hip".

But right now is pretty bad, bad enough that I'm basically house bound. so bad that they're trying a complete rebuild of my medicine regime to get me back on my feet (somewhat literally) and hopefully back to being a productive FozzieBare.

This doesn't mean I'm stopping writing. It means I have to pick my shots, and truth be told, the fact is that most of my writing has hit the barrier of "No, this is crap, I can't release this as the return. GET BETTER".

So to channel Miracle Max, I ask you to be like a busy doctor, and to have patients. Or Patience. One of the two.

Feliz Navidad
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Happy New Year.
Joyous Festivus.

Whatever the reason for your season, I wish you peace on earth, good will towards mankind. It's nae so bad a way to live.

My pre-reader is taking a well-deserved vacation until early January. Normal service of FTMD and Rogue's Rules (and perhaps One On One) will resume shortly thereafter.

May the stars light your path this holiday season.

Chapter 10 is off to the pre-readers now.

Thank you guys ever so much for bearing with me through my computer issues.