Hi all!
It’s been a while, but life keeps me busy. It is still the yard work season and yeah… Cleaning up the driveway and front yard, getting all the leaves and stuff away was a task in itself. THEN two days later, 50 kilometres an hour wind from the south and a mother of a thunderstorm. ALL the leaves and tree branches from across the road, BACK in my front yard! (Grrr… Bark, bark!)
And then there’s Load-shedding, brown-outs, whatever you want to call it. Up to 10 hours out of power per 24 hours. (Grrr! Bark, bark! And unprintable words!)
And to top it all! The internet is so sloooooow… Like a snail on crutches! While I’m writing this, I’m waiting now for ten minutes for the SOL website to respond, so I can post the chapter. Even my WhatsApp chat to my editor in the USA that usually is lightning fast, takes forever to go through. Maybe the Transatlantic cable is damaged again. Why can’t the guru techs go satellite, instead of an old prehistoric cable?
Well, chapter 19 was going back a few times to the editors. One editor was not happy with the “Sequence-of-events” description and felt that it would make the readers lose the plot. It was an essential part of the story that will show Dusty as a human being that can also make mistakes. Don’t we all?
This chapter was supposed to be the last chapter, but the story dictate otherwise… LOL! So, for a few of you the agony will be prolonged. Sorry…
Finally: I want to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners in the Clitorides Awards. Good Show! May there be many more from your pens!
Thank you for all of you that voted for “To Cheat the Devil,” as “Long Erotic Story of the Year.” Tenth place is good for me! And also for voting Jody Daniel(s) in the category Author of the year in 6th place. It is highly appreciated. (Yeah, I know that the guy that nominated JD had a typo and added an “S” to my pen name, but all is forgiven. LOL. We are still good!)
Thank you to my three Editors, you guys are excellent. Especially my Canadian editor that persisted in editing during a difficult time in his life, after losing his wife to an illness that is so unknown and not understood by medical science. God bless you all.
Keep well, and stay safe! Until next time.
Bye 4 now!