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I said I would post a chapter a week until the entire novel (High School Massacre) was posted. Since I posted Chapter 1 on a Tuesday, I posted Chapter 2 on a Tuesday as well. However, I posted Chapter 3 today and it's Thursday. Why?

When I write a novel, I don't take word count into consideration when writing chapters. If the chapter is real short, so what? All you have to do is turn the page to start the next chapter. However, that's not true on SOL if the next chapter isn't yet posted.

Chapter 3 of "High School Massacre" is real short. It's an important chapter though, introducing characters and something major in the plot. I was going to post it on Tuesday and also post Chapter 4 at the same time. But I thought I might as well post Chapter 3 early rather than bundle chapters 3 and 4 together.

So be forewarned - Chapter 3 is short.

"Steele Justice," the first book in the Lincoln Steele series, is now available on Bookapy (the other books in the series are "High School Massacre" and "Death of a Hero"). It's the last of my novels to be migrated to Bookapy so now all of my books are on both Bookapy and Amazon. Well, "Conflicted Nun" is not on Amazon because of the underage character having sex. Bookapy is more liberal in that regard.

I created the Lincoln Steele character with characters like Jack Reacher, Rambo, and Dirty Harry in mind. But after three Lincoln Steele books, I moved on. Someday I may write another, but after the third book I wrote "The Breeder" and then "Conflicted Nun." Now I'm writing a novel with the working title of "War Widows" or "World War II War Widows" (probably the former).

My novel "Last Kiss" is now available on Bookapy.

This is a very different novel from my others. It has no sex. NONE. You can buy it for your teenage daughter and she'll love it. You will too, by the way.

My short story with the same name was written for a contest on wattpad years ago. It received almost a perfect score from the judges.

I got many positive comments from the readers there, many asking for it to be longer. So I converted it to a full-length novel (85,000 words) and decided to go the traditional route (hence the squeaky clean nature of the novel). That publishing industry experience frustrated me so much that I decided I would forgo them and self-publish. And that's what I've been doing ever since, which allows me to write my other novels filled with graphic sex and violence that the traditional publishing industry is not ready for.

I eventually put the short story on StoriesOnline, but now that Bookapy exists, I decided to publish the novel there.

Until recently, I published my novels only on Amazon, but now have been publishing them on Bookapy as well. However, when I published on Amazon I enrolled each novel in the Kindle Unlimited program which requires the novel to be exclusive to Amazon for a 90-day period. For each novel, as the 90-day period expires I will be publishing the novel on Bookapy.

"High School Massacre" was released from the exclusive agreement with Amazon so I published it on Bookapy. The cover looks like it's a horror book, but it's not. And the title sounds like it's all about high school shootings, but it's not. It's a thriller/mystery and the high school shooting simply sets the story in motion and is the mystery that needs to be solved. The shooting itself is only the first chapter.

"High School Massacre" is the 2nd novel in the Lincoln Steele series, but all the books in the series are standalone, like James Bond or Jack Reacher novels. There may be some common characters across the novels (like "M" in James Bond), but they are not dependent on each other. I believe the only character other than Lincoln Steele carried over to this novel from the first one is Mr. Cian. He heads up a CIA-like organization that is so secretive it's the only government agency without initials.

"High School Massacre" has non-consensual sex. The purpose of it is to show the evilness of characters so that you root for them to get what they deserve, which is what Lincoln Steele does. He hands out his own form of justice (hence the name of the 1st novel in the series - "Steele Justice").

Like other SOL authors I know, we're putting our novels on Bookapy to support Lazeez (the StoriesOnline owner/webmaster). And like others, I use a different author name for my novels than my stories posted on SOL. On SOL I'm Switch Blayde, but on Bookapy and Amazon I'm S.W. Blayde.

If you were waiting for a complete copy of "Conflicted Nun" to be on SOL before reading it, your wish has been granted. The entire novel is now available on SOL.

It's a romance story and sort of coming of age. Sort of because the character isn't a teenager, but quite naive on matters of love and sex.