Happy New year!

     Sorry I have been away sod long. I was finishing up one series, The Falls small town mystery series, and staring a new one, The Slumbering Dragon Inn Mysteries. Been converting kindle versions to paperback and trying to keep up with writing at the same time.I feel a little sad to leave the falls...but I may return...you never know.

     I hope that you and yours have a wonderful, caring and eventful new year with lots of friends, family and love. Please be watching Amazon for word of the new series...and as always, I appreciate you, my readers, more than you can know.

     I'mm seventy-seven and feeling my age, but Carolyn and I try and keep busy and active. I wish you all the very best this 2025! Stay safe, believe in your selves and the people around you.

All the best,

George

 A New Beginning

     The 53rd story in The Falls small town mystery series will be the last (? Never say never!) of the series. It will come out in digital form soon. It will end with the marriage of Cash Green and Ericka Yamato, which has building for years. There will also be some harrying moments the day before the wedding. The folks in The Falls and I hope you enjoy it.

     There will be a new series coming in early to late summer. It will be a cozy mystery set in a small town in Vermont with two Scottish sisters who run a rambling, Victorian B&B. The first story will set the scene for, hopefully, many more to come. I am at the moment fleshing out the characters and landscape. I hope you all will give the new series a try. More about that later. No title yet...but I'm thinking about it.

     Here's hoping you are all safe a sound. With all the natural disasters and terrible weather going around, it's hard to know anymore. The politics are heating up again and I hate the way we treat each other. Disrespect and nastiness should never be a part of politics. We should be able to disagree with respect and politeness. The intrusion of nastiness comes from a few thoughtless and uncaring idiots who should crawl back under the rock they came from.

     Enjoy the spring and watch for news of the new series! Lots of love from the folks in The Falls and me.

     George

 January 11

     Thursday, January 11th...hope this day finds you well. I have a doctor's video appointment today...and my wife, Carolyn, has a knee replacement tomorrow. I had a breathing test on Monday and she had a pre-procedure meeting with her doctor earlier in the week. Guess this is Doctor's week at our house.

     Finished the writing of Book 52, The Falls: Powder. That should give you a clue as to what it's about. Now comes the editing and then publishing as a digital book. Then I'll start the next Falls book and within a short time start editing The Falls: Powder as a paperback. I wish there were two of me. One to edit, one to write. But then, the editor would probably be disgruntled because he wanted to write and the writer would feel a bit superior to the editor because they were the 'creative' one. Probably better there's just one of me.

     The holidays are over and several new tiny houses have been added to the village on the landing. We made a journey back to the NE to spends Christmas season with two of our kids, several grandkids and even a great grandchild. Also had a grandchild over to the house to celebrate her birthday along with our daughter and son-in-law. Family is the real center of life... friends too.

     Enjoy the after holiday quiet. (Along with the bills that need paying)

     Thanks for kind and loyal readers. You are what makes my little stories worthwhile.

     Always, George

                                                             Christmas Break

     Well, we are on Christmas break. I wonder who first came up with the term ‘break’? Not vacation, not hiatus…but break. Anyway…here’s hoping your last few months since my last post has been good ones for you. We have had a number of issues, but then, we are getting older. I was in the hospital and had antibiotic IVs for eight days in a row due to a wound on my leg caused by me missing the grunge as I stepped out of the raised bed. Been to the ER several times as well.

     I’m working on book 52 in The Falls series and working on editing two of the paperbacks fore the novels. I have begun to feel the people in The Falls are more familiar to me than the people around us in Florida. Our family though, as always, is our most wonderful treasures.

     Hope your new year is bright and caring. Be kind to people. The folks in The Falls would appareciate it. Takes care…thank you for being part of The Falls…

Always,

George 

Just Popping In

     Hoping you all are keeping hydrated and cool during these unusually hot summer days. Just letting you know that I am in the process of editing the paperback of The Falls: The Curse #47 of the series. Just finished editing and publishing the paperback of the third in The Dragon World Series, Dragon World: Dragon Mist. It's now on sale at Amazon.com. 

     I am busily working on #51 of The Falls series and that should be published as a Kindle version in the next month or so. As I get older...I seem to work faster. Wonder why that is?

     Take care of yourselves...don't let the world's news and idiocies get you down. Remember...you are the only one who can bring you happiness and satisfaction.

    Stay safe and care for others...and Return to The Falls!

    George 

G'Day

     Just using the Aussie greeting because there's an Aussie...actually two of them...in my new Falls novel. Crikey! Kinda' fun!

     Working on the digital number 51 and just published #46 Assassin and Volume #3 in Dragon World Series, Dragon Mist. 

     Had a funeral this past month. A cousin and friend I've known for all my 75 years.

     Hope you are all stating as cool as possible with all this heat. Climate change is here...make no mistake. If you deny it you're as dumb as Alfy Norton's hog Brutus.

     Stay safe. Thank you for being there for me. It is greatly appreciated...

     George

 Forgive My Absence

     Sorry I have been gone so long away from here. I have been working furiously on writing, editing The Falls series (digital and paperback) and on editing and converting the Dragon World Series into paperback. That's not an excuse, but combine that with the rest ofd life and it starts to add up.

     I'm working on the 51st novel in The Falls small town mystery series, and the fiftieth is out as a Kindle version. The Falls: Changes.I am editing The Falls: Assassin to convert into paperback as well as the Dragon World: Dragon Mist, the third in the Dragon World Series, as well. 

     Needless to say, the world keeps spinning faster and faster. As you get older (I am now 75) it takes some effort to keep up with it. That and not being an expert in technology doesn't help get things done as well.

     When I retired in 2009, I was pretty tech savvy. Not so much anymore. Now DirecTV, which we've had for 25-30 years, is no longer the owner of NFL Sunday Ticket (You-Tube is) I had to buy a piece of that 'app' om my TV to watch our out of market games! Colts and Seahawks. Grrr! The world is changing so fast I can't keep up. And at times...I don't even try. I am after all, just an old storyteller, who loves to write stories for all of you to read.

     Take care and try and see if you can keep up with the world out there! My love to you all...and thanks for reading my little stories.

     May the dragons watch over you...always...

     George

 Just a quick thought

     I am still having problems with Facebook. It won't allow me to post ads toothier facebook pages. I also hate the new version.and have switched back to classic version...which they say is going away soon. I sometimes wonder why people have to screw around with things that work in the name of change.

     Just a reminder, The Falls: The Curse is the latest of The Falls small town mystery series in digital form and the Falls: The Bully is the latest paperback that's out. Working on the next one, about halfway through. I write each day, while I eat breakfast at a standup desk on my iMac 24". I use Word and then transfer to a template that my friend Eileen Shannon created for me when I create the KDP paperback.

     Have a great day! Be safe and care about others. That's what the folks in The Falls would do,

     May the dragons watch over you (old Scottish saying).

George

 Hey There!

     Here's hoping your day is going well. I have been in Facebook Jail for a month now. Something is really off. I got sent there for simply posting my latest book on Facebook web pages such as Passion for Books, Amazon Kindle, Kindle Books, etc. 

    I know they've changed the rules, but I'm at a loss. Guess I'll figure it out. But what's objectionable about posting an ad for a mystery? Don't get it. And there's no easy way of contacting them, which is just wrong.

     Anyway, since then the 47th digital story has come out and I'm trying to find ways to get the word out there. I have joined Instagram and MeWe. Not my choice...but ways to get out ads.

     The new story is The Falls: The Curse, and it's available at the Kindle Store on Amazon.com. It starts out as being a great day in The falls. Then people start noticing that two very prominent citizens are missing. Then it all goes sideways.

     Hope you enjoy it! Have a great (if sweltering) day.

     May the dragons watch over you...

     George

 Facebook Jail

     Well I have been in Facebook jail for nearly three weeks now. For posting ads of my latest The Falls book, no less. The Falls: Assassin. Maybe it's the word assassin. Who knows. And there really is no easy way to contact them to complain. I have marked the 'disagree'
circle but they also state that they don't have enough people to check it out.

     So if you aren't seeing my ads on Facebook recently...that's why. I will be back. In the meantime, I have now started up Instagram and MeWe accounts. (Shakes my head.) All I want to do is write stories. The world is a strange place nowadays my friends.

     So, enjoy the blistering heat and know that some day soon, The Falls will be returning to a Facebook page near you!

     Keep the faith. I appreciate all of you...

George (Facebook Felon)

Good Morning...

     Surprise! I'm actually adding a post! Amazing, huh? I'm in the midst of starting a new story and editing The Falls: Italian Connection for paperback. Busy as usual. I'm patterned. Writing in the morning while i eat breakfast, edit in the afternoon after my wife Carolyn and I eat lunch and watch a show or movie we have taped. I have been painting all the trim and doors, giving them a fresh new look. A little bit every day. 

I have found that this last bout with an upper respiratory infection has left me a bit sort on stamina and breath. Took awhile to get over and two different antibiotics and steroids along with nebulizing treatments. My lungs are weak from having asthma since I was five and living back in Vermont for the first forty-four years of my life. I try not to let that keep me from doing the things I like and need to do.

Enough about that. You would think that after writing 46 volumes on The Falls I would be running out of ideas and energy. But not so far. The little town is my special place. A plan e where the folks live and laugh and love and even though they might squabble, they always support each other in the end. Considering what the world is really like right now...it's a calming place to go.

Hope your days are special. Stay safe, Covid isn't done with us yet, so use your common sense.

May the dragons watch over you all...

George

                                                                                Ta-Da!

      I know...I know...it's been forever. Lots of work, lots of stuff going on with Covid, new babies, trips to the ER and other stuff thrown it. Just stopping by to let you know that book 47 The Falls: Assassin is out in Kindle and that book 42 The Falls Vandalism and Heraldry is out in paperback! Hope you are all doing well.

      We took several trips last fall and winter, masks, wiping everything down and were lucky not to contract anything. As this new year begins to define itself, I must tell you how heartbroken I am for Ukraine. The brutality and cruelty of Putin shocks and reviles me. Better the man hand never been born. As you know, my stories always aim for happy endings. I truly believe that's the world should be...and could be if people did the right things.

        We need to stick together...the majority off decent, caring people, and stand up to the bullies, the thugs and the dictators in all phases of our lives. If I had my wish...we would all stand in front of those less fortunate and weak and protect them.

          Until the next time...love reading, care about people and may the dragons watch over you...

George