It is done!

After much difficulty writing Book 23, I had to jump into edits on Book 21. I'm sorry to keep readers waiting so long.

I finished edits this past weekend and uploaded the book. While it's still being disseminated to some retailers, you can find it now on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, and a few other online stores and libraries. I'll send out my newsletter announcement when I have Apple and Barnes and Noble links.

Now that this is done, I'll go back to writing Book 23 and right into Book 24. I can't believe I have just over two more books left to write and this series will be complete!

Nya's worst nightmare has materialized—the Issan have the Ethalian research for creating portals and are working to adapt it to free their god. However, Alric has inspired L'Ni with an idea to create a code to delete all the research. The problem is infecting the Issan computer systems. That can only be done from the inside.

L'Ni has laid out a detailed plan only he fully knows, and the time has come to put it into motion. Nya isn't happy when she discovers too late what that plan entails—he must submit himself to an Inquisitor. Whatever he knows could be exposed, possibly compromising all their work. However, if he doesn't try, the Issan will have all they need to build the ultimate weapon.

Despite his meticulous planning, L'Ni missed one detail, one that could ruin everything…

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In other news, I'll also get to work on the next print edition -- Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Collection 4 (Books 16-20). I'll get this formatted and set up this month to add to the other three print editions. The biggest problem I see with this is that these books have been getting longer and longer and the pages are limited for print format, so I may have to change formatting slightly to keep 5-book collections for the final two.

And I still have my horse. I trimmed his hooves yesterday and am sore today. It was beautiful here yesterday--in the mid-60's for highs! A perfect day for trimming, and he was past due. Here he is playing with his feed bucket. He hates when it gets low and he can't quite get the last few bits in it. He's almost like a cat who sees the bottom of his food bowl and acts like it's empty.

Mary Is Converting Muslims | Fr. Jason Charron (video title)

Why Exorcisms Are on the Rise & How to Protect Your Family w/ Fr. Dan Reehil (video title)

Reality is weirder than fiction...

The weirdest thing happened at church this evening. (One of the parishes in town has a 5:15 pm weekday mass that I attend.)

Two of my characters walked into real life! Raea and Elis

Okay, so they weren't exact matches, but I had to fight to keep my attention on mass when I saw this young couple who couldn’t have been older than preschoolers when I wrote the first Starfire Angels book. The young woman had long brown hair and the man had black wavy, shortish hair. He wasn’t tall and skinny like my dark angel of the books, but close enough to make me question what reality I was in.

I posted this on Substack and had a comment about my characters going to mass. That isn't much different than the Dark Angel Chronicles books, however. As I replied, "One of them does in the books too. In the series, an old Catholic widow provides a home for the young man while he’s on earth and knows his secret, and he drives her to mass and helps her like an adopted son."

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In other news, Book 21 of Forgotten Worlds is almost done! I thought it was done until I started noticing I was still making cuts, so I decided to read it one more time to make sure I don't leave any mistakes. All the major edits are done. This is the final round. I can't do more.

Within the next week, I will publish this one and get back to writing.

Thanks for reading.

God bless!

The Grace of the Transfiguration | 2nd Sunday of Lent | Fr. Dan Reehil (video title)

 

My Son Was Possessed for 3 Years…How a Priest Saved His Soul (video title)

Lying: This Will Surprise You! Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar (video title)

Where is Confession in the Bible? (videos)

Arm Yourself With Scripture (video)

 

In listening to this, he mentions at one point how Jesus's 40 days of fasting in the desert reflects the 40 days that Moses was on the mountain and the 40 years that the Jews wandered the wilderness with Moses. He also forgot the 40 weeks of pregnancy. Once you begin to see the connections in the Bible, more start to jump out, but it's also fun to search for them.

God is the greatest storyteller! All the prefigurements in the OT are what we in the modern world refer to as "Chekov's gun" were technques created by God. Start searching and you'll be amazed and awakened to why the Catholic church's teachings are the fullest truth.

And here's another great homily for Lent by another great YouTube priest:

Why Every Christian Should Be Catholic (video title)