Good Monday morning. It felt like a short week. I am a curling fan so watching the Canadian curling championship (The Brier) all week made it go fast. Also the team I was cheering for managed to win and now will go to worlds in a couple of weeks. More curling for me to watch.

I've been making some good progress on my next book 'Bentley', the spinoff from the Tannion Series. I've added another three chapters and have almost sixty thousand words and counting. The end is in sight even if I'm not sure how it is going to end.

I also finished reading an interesting book titled 'Rollback'. A science fiction novel set in the near future where aliens have been heard from and medical science has controlled most diseases and has gone as far as being able to rollback people's age. It only costs a few billion dollars, but in order to keep the person who can communicate with the aliens alive, she gets a rollback. I thought it was well written and thought out.

Covid-19 is still in the news as more vaccines are plunged into people's arms. I am old enough to be one of them, but for now have decided to opt out. I'll wait and see what the future has in store before I take that plunge. I'm still not worried about catching a disease that most likely won't kill me and one I have only a very small chance of catching.

I don't know if many of you are into genealogy but I find it very interesting. I have been doing it for years and now have set up my family group on facebook and it is slowly gathering pictures and data. It takes up a little of my time, but with the weather improving, I want to spend a little more time outside so it and my writing might not get as much attention as it had.

That's it for now Talk again soon.

 Hi there. Sorry for skipping a week. Time is still going at too fast a pace to catch up. Or so it seems. At least the weather has been nicer than what it was a few weeks back. I think maybe spring is right around the corner.

As the vaccines roll out and the number of Covid cases comes down, maybe we will be out of this mess sooner than we think. Won't be soon enough for me or many others. The summer might even look a little more like normal.

I am at 59 thousand words in my book 'Bentley', the spinoff from the Tannion series that I have been writing for what seems like years. It is a slow growth, but it is growing and I hope to finish it this year. After writing 15 books in the first 10 years of retirement, I just don't seem to have the same drive or desire.

I am enjoying watching curling on TV. If you aren't a fan, I understand. It's something you have to have grown up with for many. Too slow for some, but with understanding how difficult it is to do what they are doing on the ice, it can be an amazing sport to watch.

With the warmer weather, the walks along the river have been very enjoyable, but I am looking forward to spring. Now we all need to stay healthy and let it come to us.

That's ll for now. Talk again soon.

Good morning. It's a lovely sunny day here with fairly warm temperatures for this time of year. How often can you say I'm better off here than in Texas. Quite the blast they have had and when you aren't ready for it, that kind of cold can do a lot of damage and that has been the case.

Busy week this week as I am a Canadian curling fan and the season has started. First the women and then the men. It will be a busy few weeks. We have occasionally come home from a long trip just for the curling.

On the Covid-19 front, vaccinations continue and so does the stupidity. Today is the day that the idiots we elected have decided to unlawfully detain people at the airport and force them to pay for a hotel room they don't want and which is completely unnecessary. People flying into Canada must have a negative test plus they must go home and stay home for two weeks, but now our elected officials have decided that's not enough. Now we need to punish them for being outside the country in the first place. Haven't they figured out that 99.9 percent of the population don't have the virus.

On the writing front, my latest attempt has me adding a book to Inkitt and it has now been read three times, but no reviews yet. I think it is an interesting read so if you are an Inkitt member, take a look at 'Time Tells All'.

That's all for now. Talk again soon.

 Good morning. I realize that today is Tuesday, but yesterday was a holiday for many of us. so I skipped a day. Better a day late than not at all I decided.

Things are finally warming up here today after almost two weeks of very cold weather. I hope that was the end of it for this winter. It's bad enough when the people we elect tell us to stay inside, but when mother nature makes it difficult to get out it's another thing. That however never really happens. Instead of walking around outside, everyone went to the mall.

Our elected officials issued rules about how many people could shop in each store based on a small percentage of fire regulation capacity, but what that did was have stores with five people in them where they could easily stay more than double the distance apart, but leaving twenty people standing in a line with every sitting area around them full and people needing to squeeze by to go stand in a line somewhere else. Not well thought out.

I have been writing. Bentley is coming along. I managed to write a couple of chapters this last week as I slowly move it towards the end. It has been a bit of a tough haul, but hopefully I'm past the difficulties I have been having and it will move a little quicker. Still planning on publishing the fourth book in the Tannion series this year, but not getting in a rush. 

I added a book to Inkitt so if you get a chance join them, check out 'Time Tells All', It's a story about lucid dreams and what they mean to one man. It is the only place it is available as it has never been published just like the other twelve books I have written and not published. I would love to get them all out there, but still not willing to pay the price.

That's it for now as maybe I will get to go for a nice walk outside with it warming up. Stay safe and talk again soon.

 Good morning on a very cold Monday morning. Very cold here this morning and it looks like at least a week or more of this kind of weather for us. It sure would be nice to be on a nice warm beach or patio someplace, but that's not the case this year. I could blame covid, but the real blame is on our so called leaders.

No rant today though. Maybe it's just too cold. What I would like to talk about is the website Inkitt.com. If you've read previous posts of mine, you might know that I have published the first 3 books in the Tannion Series. but I have also written 12 more books. Of my 15 books, 8 are in the Tannion Series, but the second book I ever wrote after Tannion is a story that I call 'Time Tells All'. The title comes from a saying that my aunt used all the time and seemed to fit with the theme of the story.

Time Tells All is a story about dreaming and about time. What's important about the book today is that I have added it as a story on Inkitt. As I am new to Inkitt, I don't understand exactly how the site works, but it appears by me putting a book up, others will be able to read it and if enough people read and comment on it, Inkitt might decide to publish it. That's about the end of my understanding and I will have to learn more, but for now, if you are interested, take a look at my story on Inkitt and see if it's something you might like to read.

I am still working away slowly on Bentley, my spinoff from the Tannion Series and I am still looking to publish the 4th book in the Tannion Series in the next few months. The cold weather is keeping me indoors more so maybe I'll find more time to write.

That's it for now so stay safe and talk again soon.

 Hi there. It's Monday morning and this time I have some news to report. I went ahead and bought a little advertising time. It didn't cost much, but in the end, it turned out to not be worth much. I didn't see one book sold, but I did have a few pages read with Kindle Unlimited. At first it was 35 pages, but then there was an additional 391 and then the next day there was another 547 pages read. I don't know if that is where it will end or not as it is possible for people to have seen the ad and do something later, but I think that's probably it.

I don't have a great idea what having a few pages read will mean to me. I understand there is some cash value if my book gets read or at least a significant portion of it. The numbers might mean my book had a couple of reads so maybe that's a couple of dollars. No where near returning my costs. I had to try though.

On more book news, I have been writing on 'Bentley' my spinoff novel from the Tannion Series and it seems to be going better. I just need to find more time to put on it. With my genealogy work, selling things on EBAY, (as well as buying), plus having my grandsons over, I seem to be as busy as ever.

Of course this Covid crap continues and just when it seems the vaccines are rolling out, they come to a halt. At least some of the restrictions are being lifted soon, but not soon enough for me. I still believe that 'no elected official should have the power to harm so many to save so few'. I know there are a lot of people out there who won't believe me and that's okay. We will agree to disagree.

That's it for this week. Talk again soon.

 Hi there. I hope your year is going well. I can at least say that I have been a little more faithful in adding to this blog each week. Of course being told to stay at home should make it more possible, but in my case even more importantly is, it turned cold.

Big day tomorrow. I threw in a few advertising dollars and tomorrow my books in the Tannion Series are being advertised on Just Kindle Books. It wasn't a lot of money and there are no guarantees, but I am hopeful that I can sell a few books. Of interest is Amazon where I have sold a few books, but have never been paid. They will only cut a check when sales reach $100 and my sales have been so dismal I haven't reached that point. I am close though and it would only take a few sales to put me over the top.

I am also looking at a few more advertising slots to spend a little more money, but I want to wait until I see what this first one does. With luck, I will make my money back. 

I have been writing again as well. My book 'Bentley', which is a spinoff from the Tannion Series, is moving along and I hope to keep it going now. I have over 53000 words and I think I have the next few chapters figured out and I hope I can come up with an ending before long. 

When I write I usually have no idea what will come next. Once I finish a chapter the next chapter often seems obvious and so on until it's done. When it seems that way to me I can only hope that the reader doesn't feel the same. I try to throw in a twist or two to keep them guessing.

That's it for now and wish me luck. If you are looking for a read, give Tannion a try.