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Monica Mechanic will begin posting tomorrow. Why did it take so long, you promised it weeks ago?

It turns out that with my messed up hands and drawn out writing, I made lots of typos and other goofs that a legion of first readers, editors, and proofreaders had to point out so I could fix them.

The story is done. The sixteen chapters will post every other day. Your feedback and error reporting will be deeply appreciated.

Enjoy!

I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday. I'm 950 miles from home having Christmas at Mom's with 2 daughters and grand daughter - first time together in many years.

I'm writing this on my tablet as my laptop's charger died last night. I can't finalize and upload Monica until I'm back on my laptop. Sorry. Looks like New Years.

Just in time to mess up their Christmas, I sent Monica to my editors. Why am I telling you? I'm over seventy. If you are like me, eight months is a long time to remember plots and characters, and Monica Mechanic is a sequel to Pēteris. Now, with this warning, you'll have time to at least scan Pēteris.

Near the start of Monica, I listed most of the characters from Pēteris that appear in the sequel, but that's pretty dull reading.

As always, the story is complete. Monica is 15 chapters long and I will post a chapter every other day.

As I work through proofing Monica, I want to mention a reader's suggestion after one of my HAREM stories. The reader was intrigued by the strong women in the story and suggested that I write a scenario where women, trapped by Earth First villains, are trained as a fighting unit to rescue themselves. So far, that hasn't jelled for a Swarm story, but there are defiantly strong women in Monica who learn to defend themselves and others.

My thanks to that reader for planting the idea.

Damsels: Incredibly beautiful and sexy - check! Want a baby and willing to risk their lives to get one - check! Perpetually horny and oversexed - check! So, they're pretty much all the same, right? Pēteris finds out different.

What if one is a Hero at heart and one doesn't like men? Say what?! Meet Damsel Monica Mechanic and Damsel Trudi Masseuse. This story, set in Lazlo Zalezac's 'Damsels In Distress Universe,' is a sequel to Pēteris, a story that should be read first.

So I finished the first draft. Now I need to read through and stomp bugs before I inflict it on my editors and proofreaders.

Why this post? I don't like sequels that go back and relate most of the original story to catch folks up. This will give my one or two readers the chance to get ahead of me.

With holidays on the near horizon, I don't know how otherwise occupied my editors will be. I wish I could tell you the date I'll start posting, but I can't. "Soon" is the best I can do.