G Younger: Blog

Stolen Plans has been removed from SOL as I forwarned. This was explained in a previous blog.

For those outside the United States, I've been told that my website is now working. If you find an issue, let me know so I can beat my webmaster for messing it up to begin with. He mainly develops for local people and had no idea what he was up to. I'll just leave it at that.

Note to self: Just because you know someone doesn't mean you should hire them.

Final thing: A handful of people said they like longer chapters. Since The Outsider has already been written, I can't change chapter lengths. Instead, I will post two chapters on Saturdays, meaning there won't be one on Wednesdays.

If you want more chapters per week, contact Bud Ugly, my editor. He controls how many chapters I can post weekly. He has an elaborate plan for the next few books to be posted on SOL. Good luck getting him to change that plan. Plus, someone... maybe it was me... approved the plan.

If you have an issue, either talk to the hand or contact Bud Ugly (he loves to hear complaints).

Thanks
G. Younger

From time to time, I get questions that I am sure a lot of other readers probably have. Here are three:

1) One question, I have gone back and not seen a full description of the little ninja (Cassidy). I love stories with great character development; you are one of my favorites. I have seen some authors who have, on a website, offered pictures of what they envisioned the character to look like.


I asked my editors if they had ideas on what she looked like. Here are a few of their responses... let me know what you think:

I wouldn’t do it. When characters are well written, as yours are, we all develop an image of them in our mind’s eye that is aligned with our preferences, and provided images tend to disappoint because of it. I was usually disappointed with images when he used to do it.

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aroslav/Wayzgoose/Devon Layne deliberately either doesn't describe his characters or gives a minimal description, unless of course the description is a key factor in the story. An example of the latter is his 'Team Manager' series. The MC's size, his 'coke-bottle' eyeglasses--those are very important to his situation when the first book begins, and some physical changes in him are also important in at least one later book. But that's pretty much an exception.

OTOH, charliefornow generally sends photos of girls/women representing his stories' characters. Looking at them and reading his descriptions clarifies what things about women attract him. (stockings, heels--way up there; I'm giving nothing away, as the stories make those things obvious)

I think either way works.

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I have an idea of what all my characters look like. I've found images of what I think they look like and try to use those for consistency's sake. But I've always believed that you must leave it to people's imagination because what I think is attractive might not be what someone else thinks.

Then I sometimes totally go against that... if you haven't noticed, writers are a little nuts.

2) Why do you have to pull down books from SOL when you put them on a pay site?

I've skirted the issue with Stupid Boy, but not willing to keep poking the bear, so to speak, that is(name deleted). If a book will be on their site, I'll pull it from SOL. It can remain on Bookapy and my site if it isn't free (or cheaper than on their site).

Note that several authors have had to do this.

3) Why is your site down in Canada?

This one had me scratching my head, so I contacted my webmaster. I found out that they are terrible at customer service. That's another story, and it has a lot to do with you getting what you pay for.

Greg -

I am doing an overhaul of our firewall this weekend. In order to prepare for that, I have everything but the US blocked until this weekend while I work on the firewall in the meantime. I have will have global functionality restored by Monday

I have a tree limb on my roof, and the electricity stayed on. We would have had it worse if the hurricane hadn't turned south. All good, though.

Now, the issue is getting out and about. We have no gas, and where there is some, there are huge lines. Walmart does not even offer deliveries or pickups until Tuesday. I might go to a casino and play poker until sanity returns.

Non-weather-related news: Stolen Plans wraps up this Saturday. It will only be up for a short time afterward because we will be moving it to another paysite, which prohibits us from offering it for free. If you want a copy for your library, use the download feature SOL offers.

Thanks for everything.
G. Younger

The hurricane coming is already a CAT 5. The unsurvivable storm surge is expected to be upwards of 10 - 12 feet, and winds will exceed 125 mph.

I'm on high enough ground that I shouldn't have to worry about the storm surge, but the winds are worrisome. At that speed, it can down trees and even take the roof off your house. If it doesn't slow down, I might evacuate.

The last time I did that, the storm swerved and hit the place I went to hide out. LOL. God has it in for me.

G. Younger

The third book in the Better Man series was set in 2018. If you check the football scores and records from that year, you’ll see I only took some minor liberties in the timeline (like USC beating Notre Dame and playing in a bowl game).

Little did I know that so much would change in college football, including COVID-19, transfer rules, and players being paid via NIL. Then there’s the expansion of the SEC, Big Ten, and Big 12, the collapse of the Pac-12, and the change in the college football playoff to 12 teams. And there’s more to come—like my hot take that the NCAA might not survive when the Big Ten and SEC split off. I’ve decided that I can’t ignore all the changes that happened since 2018 and, in essence, will accelerate the timeline.

The goal is for the fourth book in the series to catch up with most of this. I plan on leaving the Pac-12 intact for this season. I’ll also ignore COVID-19 and the fiasco with shortened seasons and no fans in the stands.

I am currently writing Book 4 and a do-over story. Before I start posting the fourth Better Man book, I have a few books that will be posted on SOL. I was sick and needed a break from David, but the muse is back, and I am writing about him and his friends again.

G Younger

PS If you have questions, you can check out my homepage, where I post updates.