Zen Master: Blog

A reader just pointed out that Chapter 2 of "The Return Home" seems incomplete. Huh? I checked. Yeah, THAT's not right. The original files from when I posted the story back in 2012, more than six years ago now, well, they are fine, so I have submitted Chapter 2 for re-posting. Hopefully that takes care of it.
For those who are interested, back in the mid-80's I got involved with a married woman. It turned out that she was involved with quite a few men, and when it all came out I ended up with her. I had a wonderful couple of years taking her from sluttery to slavery, and "The Return Home" is a thinly fictionalized autobiography of that time.
I still occasionally do some work on its sequel "Scenes From The Road". If I ever finish it, the teaser will be:
"Much of the Mike & Shirley stuff is autobiographical and mostly true. However, THIS one is pure fantasy. It's completely made up. I never kidnapped anyone, I never drove halfway across the country with a naked woman tied up beside me, and I have no idea how my uncle met his girlfriend."

That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :)

-ZM

I've started releasing "Jason's Tale" on a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule. It'll be a while, since the two parts have more than 60 chapters. The Prologue and Chapter 1 should show up tomorrow.
The acknowledgements section is gonna be a bit longer than usual for this one. A lot of people need to be thanked for their help.

-ZM

My latest, a novel set in Lazlo Zalezac's shared universe "Damsels in Distress", is beginning to come back from the proofreaders. Apparently it isn't as perfect as I thought. All the fixes are easy, though. Grammar, spelling, etc. I know, I'm tempting the fates by saying that. Still, I will start posting it as soon as I've heard from the last one.
-ZM

The Management has posted my essay "Why We Proofread Our Work" on the authors' resource page, at the very bottom with all the other how-to essays. Awesome!

-ZM

I have submitted a new essay "Why We Proofread" for posting here. It isn't a story. It actually belongs on the list of author's resources but I don't know how to post things there. Also, it is listed as "true story" for both genre and codes because the submission wizard insists that you select at least one.
Oh, and it probably needs a proofreader. None of my normal proofreaders wanted to touch this one, for some reason.

-ZM