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"Progress, however glacial, is still Progress." I don't know who said that, but it has saved my sanity a few times. And I am getting into a series of completions despite the intrusion of some nasty real-world problems on several channels. The Sponsorship Glyph But there are obstacles within the goals. For example, KDP. Kindle Direct Publishing has replaced the old Kindle system, which worked. But doesn't for me. It is required that I move books over from the original Kindle system and it will not connect. It sits and spins and spins and spins. but I'll keep hammering on it. But the first of the releases will make me no money. Which is the design. it is the 2019 edition of SIMPLE DIRECTIONS, A Guide to a 4th Step Inventory. This was originally published in 2019 and has been spiffed up. It is still a very easy to follow set of directions to do a 4th Step Inventory with Dr. Bob's version of a summary for Steps 1-2, plus a few words to help with St

A random image from Behance, whose creator name I've lost. It makes me think of a back-alley market somewhere on Jorune. Maybe Ponteer. My thoughts want me to run away. Since I can't do that physically - can't walk, driving is limited without amputation (required after a few hours), or financially. So I have always run to other worlds through books, or radio theater, or role-playing games. Worlds that make more sense to me, where I would like to breathe and enjoy dishes made by alien cooks who use the flesh of creatures I could not have imagined. I want roast haunch of dothibider, or a bowl of Pilgrim pod with some friendly Dir Dir, or a spiced stew from boiled Ramian skull meat... And I go beyond the safari-fantasy of most men in our imaginative excursions into new alien landscapes. I go home with these people. Where do they wake up? Where do they find the vegetables to take home to their family for the evening meal and what is the smell of those distant bazaars. I

I'm staying busy and it looks like juggling is about to result in several releases. My history has been mumbling in the background for months or years, juggling at least three projects at a time, and periodic explosions of deliveries. Cover of the new CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN Most of these new appearances are driven by new release through Kindle—mobi editions for eReaders—plus the attendant new access to print books for Amazon readers, which will translate into new ebook editions for AppleBooks (formerly iBooks). So what? What has to be different is my approach to letting the world know the books are there, what is in them, what value they may have. I have to blow my own horn and I have never been good with that. I'm trying to learn. I have downloaded and am reading the "free" books on the ways to kill it on Amazon sales lists, the free book giveaways, the discounts, the paid ads on FaceBook and other social media (which is a problem, because FaceBook i

Graphic element for SSC #12, exploring the Colonials who left Earth forother Worlds. I am cleaning. Not my house - yet - but the material to go up for sale in April. The final issue of the pre-sold subscriptions for my Jorune newsletter SEGMENT: SHO-CAUDAL #12 is being prepared, and I am cleaning up the HTML code for the attendant website. As much as I like the program, the Mozilla WYSIWYG editor, Sea Monkey, has been allowed to remain nonfunctional in the new web-authoring world. It no longer allows a search in the raw HTML mode. It also makes an automatic change in the HTML where the location of all graphics and download files are rewritten to seek my local folder names. That doesn't work — people on the web won't be able to read my local folder. So I have to use a raw text editor to seek and replace all the "file:///" replacements. I use CotEditor but miss my old BBEdit text editor for webpage work. Oh well. While I am waiting for the editor in England

The New Edition's cover. It is a novel. It is not science fiction or fantasy or detective novel, but - a novel. About a guy. Trying to find a life. And having dreams. The book is CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN. The people who have read it seem to enjoy it, too. I go into my own work from time to time to give the same test I give any other novel I might pick up. I turn to a random page and read. If that page is good, I might read more. I will probably buy it. So far I have passed my own test. Repeatedly. For the six years. Always nice. But I live in a time when everything thinks they can write a book and deserve praise for what they do. I would like for some people to benefit from reading it. It is very much about the here and now. And facing your worst discoveries about yourself. It is all true, but not autobiographical. I'm doing fresh editions of my book and it should translate cleanly onto Kindle (where it has not appeared to date). There are a few corrections, m

Tuning Up Before the Big Show. A blog. (Pause for hystrical applause.) For More Damn Joe Stuff. (Applause dies down.) For people already know me it is no surprise that I move in many circles: Self-Education, Repairing Damaged Adults, creating Graphics. writing Science Fiction, reading Comics. writing/playing Role Playing Games. exploring 12-Step Recovery, researching Histories, analyzing Pop Culture, listening to and creating Radio Theater, writing for Stage, and poking at a large number of sleeping monsters who may do Ghod knows what when they wake. For the new folks - Hello. The purpose of the blog is to track things I am doing and relating them to new projects as they emerge. What I have done so far may be available free through links to websites, Archive.org or YouTube.com , or whatever other outlets might be available. The news stuff - it remains to be seen. I am contemplating a Patreon to support certain projects that might be considered worthwhile. Poking at the m