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I just updated and edited Surprises and The Wilkerson Institute. I also updated them on bookapy. Enjoy!

I just updated and edited The Swap Club and The Power. I also updated them on bookapy. It’s been interesting rereading some of these older stories. Both Swap Club and Power are some of my oldest, and I wrote them back in the mid-1990s. Cell phones and DVDs were brand new, the internet moved like molasses in January, and we still had VCRs and videotapes. Occasionally I reference vehicle brands that no longer exist. (Ford Taurus ring a bell?)

For those curious, I am not rewriting the stories to bring them up to modern standards – I’m not changing car brands or switching from VCRs to DVRs, etc. I am also not rewriting the stories to improve the writing. I’m a much better writer now than I was thirty years ago, but I am going to let sleeping dogs lie, even if I do a little grooming on them. I am simply fixing punctuation, spelling, grammar, and such items. This takes a surprising amount of time. I have to go through a story sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph. Then, each chapter has to be converted to html, which occasionally needs to be edited as well. Even with current spell and grammar checkers, this takes time. Swap Club, one of my shorter stories, took over a week to redo. The big ones, like A Fresh Start and The Grim Reaper series, took well over a month each.

The Memoirs Of A Young Victorian Lady has been edited. All three stories in SOL are reloaded, and the bookapy version has been brought up to date. The same goes for Disparate Housewives. Enjoy!

I’ve updated Naughty Families (Aruba Foursome, Dunrossiter, The Game The Whole Family Can Play, The Wedding, Jennifer, Tina) Due to a fluke in reloading a reformatted Dunrossiter, the SOL Home Page reported a new chapter uploaded. Sorry, same story, just the original final chapter was split in two; no new chapter. The files on bookapy have also been updated, so anybody who bought a copy can download the newest versions. Thanks.

Updated and edited Vacations and Tales of Culverin Hill. The files on bookapy have also been updated, so anybody who bought a copy can download the newest versions. Thanks.