I barely got my Patreon updated this morning before I hit the road and headed East from the Seattle area. So, I didn't put out a notice that I've started posting the four books of LNDtH2. Book six, El Rancho Del Corazon, is out today. I see some people have already discovered it and made their purchase. This is the book in which the Clan of the Heart makes its move after high school to start their college careers. If they can figure out a place to live, how to continue producing Brian's Young Cooking television show, and can survive the groups who still think the ranch is party central.
Now available on Bookapy! (And of course, those other sites.)
Here's something that's such old news, you've probably forgotten. When I first released this series back in 2017, Amazon decided they wouldn't release book 7: Hearthstone Entertainment. They froze it and sent me a warning that it didn't meet their community standards. I tried to get a response as to why and what I could do to correct it. The response I got was simply to say they didn't like the cover and some material on the inside. No ability to mitigate or correct or explain. The cover is part of a series of ten that are all by the same artist and in the same style. Apparently, Hearthstone Entertainment just got a reviewer with a stick up his butt about erotica.
As a result, I offered the book free on my website. Unfortunately, I believe many people never found it. I'll be doing the same with the new edition. Next weekend, I'll offer it for free on my site, on Bookapy, and elsewhere. Everywhere, in fact, except Amazon. Poo on them.
Now that you've had the announcement, suffice it to say that I'm home in my trailer in Idaho. And I'm happy there is mild weather and good air. This past week, a fire broke out in the state park and forest area just a ways south of here. This is all tribal land, and the volunteers responded immediately. They were joined by seven other teams, including air support, and by yesterday, the Toetly Fire was fully contained. They held it to about 750 acres and lost only three primary structures. The farthest north the fire reached is about a mile and a half from my camp.
I'm going down to the tribal office tomorrow and make a donation toward the feeding and equipping of the fire fighters who are still on the scene making sure the containment holds.
Later this week, I'll be calling my RV dealer in Yakima to try to get a date for delivery of my new trailer. The last I heard it was slated to come off the production line on August 24. That's Tuesday. Of course, it has to be shipped from Southern California to Yakima before I can get it and there are--you guessed it--fires between here and there. I'm just hoping they will be able to give me a delivery date sometime Labor Day week.
Until then, I'm back in the raw and pumping out more words on volume three of Team Manager. My Advance Release Patrons ($5/mo) received the final three chapters (43-45) of Team Manager SWISH! this morning. In two weeks, they'll be starting on Team Manager SPRINT! That is slated to hit here on SOL just after the first of October. Of course the Sausage Grinder Patrons ($10/mo) who don't care if there are typos or incomplete sentences, are gobbling up chapter 20 of the third volume this morning in its raw unedited condition, straight off my keyboard.
Thank you to all who read my stories, whether as patrons, book buyers, or serial readers online. I sincerely hope you are enjoying these words.