VeryWellAged: Blog

The novel is now posted at the bottom of the index page here.

I expect to publish my new novel, The Ark, before the end of February, on the ASSTR website. It will be published there in all formats (PDF, ePub, mobi, azw3 and HTML) simultaneously. For the truest read of the novel, as it was created, the PDF is the only answer. All the other formats are conversions. However it is worth noting that the HTML conversion may be the most useful, though none of the conversions are fully faithful to the original. The novel will not be included in my collected works for a few months until I am confident most of the errors have been excised from the text.

As to how long ASSTR remains on-line, it is anyone's guess.

Once again for a variety of reasons, both technical and legal, the novel cannot be published here. I wish that it was not the case as I would love to post it here. I suspect our host here, at least partially, shares my sentiment, but on the legal end his hands are tied. On the technical end, my text remains outside the formatting provisions of this site.

Here's another real world example of how what I write about is not fantasy, but the truth. The stories are fiction; but they are based on the underlying reality of life on these islands. And so I give you today's headline.

Fifteen percent of Filipino girls were married before their 18th birthday, and 2 percent of girls married before the age of 15. And for you math impaired, that's one out of every fifty is married at fourteen or younger.

I have created a new portfolio of all my fiction in PDF format. The size of the file is approximately 15.5MB.

As I am not done writing, I have a new novel in the works which will hopefully be released in the coming year. Therefore this portfolio will not be my final and total collected works. But for those who have been having problems getting on ASSTR with its frequent episodes of being offline, this single file offers you all that is currently available.

It will require a fairly up to date Acrobat Reader.

If you want a copy, please leave me a note containing an email address which can handle large attachments.

Evidently ASSTR's author index was brought back on line. It must be a very old version as it doesn't include my stuff which can still be found at https://www.asstr.org/~VeryWellAged/index.htm

However, ASSTR is out of disc-space and is in prolonged death throws. At this point there is nothing I can do about it and the attempt to bring up an alternate site has, at least for now, failed.

And so, I am probably done posting stories. For those who want copies of my works, I urge you to download them as ebooks from the ASSTR site as it is still working at the address above (before it disappears entirely), or if you want a portfolio of ALL my stories in a single PDF file, I can email it to you upon request so long as you can handle a 35+ MB file.