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It's been a while since I last posted. I've been busy (with a couple of months off for pneumonia).

I finished writing both Tunnel at the End of the Dark and Rogue Knight.

Tunnel at the End of the Dark is a sequel to The Princess, the Knight, & the Knave. Both are available on Amazon. Simply click on the links. I hope to start the last of the trilogy soon. The tentative title is A Stark and Dormi Knight.

Rogue Knight has been renamed to Marked by Thor, a Rogue Knight Adventure. Marked by Thor is the first novel in a planned Rogue Knight trilogy. It is available on Amazon. Again follow the link.

My latest project for 2014/2015 was The Prometheus Proposal. I've been through a couple of drafts, and I'm shopping it around right now. If I don't get any acceptable offers, I will publish it on Amazon, perhaps this summer. The tag line for The Prometheus Proposal is

"We don't have the technology to take ourselves to the stars, and so instead, we send the dead and the unborn."

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