Happy New Year!

     Here's hoping that all of you have a wonderful New Year filled with laughter, love, success and people you love and care about. May there be just enough tears to make the laughter sweeter. May there be just enough indecision and doubts to make the success that much more wonderful. May there be just enough loneliness to make the amazing people who care about you seem even more special. And may there be just enough  sadness and discouragement to make the love of the people who are in your life seem that much more amazing and wonderful. Happy New year! May the dragons watch over you...

     (P.S.. Spoiler alert! The new, 22nd volume, of The Falls, The Falls: The Grass is Always Greener, will be out this week! At the Amazon Kindle Store, of course!"

FREE TODAY!

     All the folks living in The Falls want to give their loyal readers a Christmas treat! So, for the next three days, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the latest three eBooks of The Falls small town mystery series are on sale!

     Wednesday, December 23rd, THE FALLS: BAD PENNY (#21 in the series) is FREE at the Kindle store! Thursday, December 24th, THE FALLS: PRODIGAL TWIN (#20) is FREE and Friday, December 25th, THE FALLS: INFERNO (#19) will be FREE!

     We all hope you take advantage of this, if you don't already have the eBook copy of the story!

     Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and have a Joyous Holiday Season...from all of us in The Falls!

'Tis the Season...

     Here's hoping that all of you are enjoying the wonderful, warm, chaotic, magical, and sometimes stressful holiday season! I have just had a colonoscopy and endoscopy done, the first one since the space age, and I'm about three quarters of the way through with the 22nd volume of The Falls small town mystery series. I also had a very pleasant surprise (no, not the C &E)  recently. There was a very flattering article written about my second career (writing) in the local paper, Your Voice News and Views, St. Lucie West/Tradition, by a very talented and remarkably talented reporter/columnist, Shelley Koppel. (skoppel@YourVoiceWeekly.com)

     Her interview on The Falls series , and therefore on me as well, was remarkably well done,  and kind and thoughtful toward an old Scotsman as well. If you get a chance, Google it or check it out on line. Thank you Miss Koppel, I am in your debt.

     I'm working on editing and transposing The Falls: Brotherly Love into paperback at CreateSpace as well. I continue to marvel at how easy it is to work with both Kindle Direct Publishing at Amazon and CreateSpace.com in producing eBooks and paperbacks. My thanks to both companies. They are indeed an independent (Indi) author's best friend.

     The tree is up (nine feet tall, all white lights with only glass, grass, sliver and white ornaments. Beautiful! We have a new fence this year and we have hung garland along each section with a large bow at each post and a wreath on each gate, courtesy of my creative and hard working better half, Carolyn. She amazes me all the time.

     Our daughter Stephenie and her husband Joe will be moving to Italy for the final stop in his 20 year stint in the army. He is now a Lieutenant Colonel. Congratulations Joe! Here's hoping they both have a great time in Italy! Ciao!

     Enjoy the season. And as the dragons would whisper in each of our ears, the greatest gift you can give anyone is the gift of your time and love. Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah to all and to all a good night

Nearly Thanksgiving...

     Well, here we are again...the holiday season is staring us square in the face. Thanksgiving in two days...but the decorations, ads and sales for Christmas have been with us for weeks. When did the two become one? Ah well...I'm not to grip about it two days before Thanksgiving.

     Working on The Falls: The Grass is Always Greener, the 22nd The Falls small town mystery. It has part of the plot in Scotland, while a couple of others are in The Falls. I'm about halfway through and I'm still interested...that's a good sign! Chuckles. Working on editing the 16th Falls novel The Falls: Pretentious Withdrawal, for a CreateSpace paperback. 

     I was interviewed by a local reporter for the newspaper today. If all goes well I will blog about it in the next episode of this blog. I don't like to tempt fate and say too much until it really is in the paper, you know?

     I'm very thankful for all of you readers and for life in general. My family...wife, kids, grandkids and great kids are amazing and wonderful and i love them all dearly. I'm very lucky.

     I wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all the fans of The Falls out there...and hope that all of you have a great day filled with family, friends, love, laughter, football and good food! May the dragons flame broiled your bird and may they watch over you all...

The First 13!

     The first 13 books from The Falls small town mystery series are now in paperback! They are available at Amazon.com, CreateSpace.com, and at Barnes & Noble. For those of you who love the feel of a book in your hands, they're here! The rest of them will be available in the near future. Return to The Falls!

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The Falls: Bad Penny

     JUST RELEASED! The Falls: Bad Penny is the 21st book in The Falls small town mystery series. It has just been released at the Kindle Store! Drake's dark past comes back to haunt him and Cash, Yamato, Horace, Doc and Meg struggle to find and capture Winchester Gibbons, master criminal.

     Just finished editing and publishing the paperback version of The Falls: Thanksgiving (#13 in the series) on CreateSpace this morning as well. It will be averrable at Amazon, CreateSpace and Barnes & Noble in a few days. Two in one day! A new record! Next up to be converted to paperback...The Falls: Pretentious Withdrawal. I've already started editing and converting.

     Phone service had been out for three days her in Port St Lucie, Florida. Florida Light and Power cut the AT&T cable to the cell tower. Our Verizon had been off as well. Hopefully, we will back on later today. 

     Happy Fall! Although in Florida...the seasons are almost indistinguishable! I miss the foliage and even the snow at times. I know, I know, stop whining. I hope you like the new Falls story and the next one is already percolating in my head. May the dragons watch over you all...

The Falls: Inferno...SALE!

     This weekend, from Friday morning at 8:00 AM until Sunday at 5:00 PM, Eastern Time, The Falls: Inferno, the 20th book in The Falls small town mystery series, will be on sale for only $.99 at the Kindle Store, Amazon.com! I'm sending out a huge thank you to the fans of The Falls who have already purchased it. This sale is my way of saying how much I appreciate your loyalty...and a way to make it even more accessible to everyone out there who might like to read it. May the dragons watch over you all... 

The Falls: Inferno...

     The Falls: Inferno has been out as an eBook on Kindle for about two weeks now. If you gotten a chance to read it, I hope you've enjoyed it. As the folks from The Falls and I head head toward our "coming of age" (21) volume, we would like to ask you, our readers, what you would like to see happen in The Falls. If you have a particular thing you'd like to see happen, a relationship you'd like to see expanded, or a neat twist to a plot line, send them to me! The characters in The Falls suggest things all the time! You can either leave a note here on the blog or send your idea to dragonrider32@Yahoo.com. That's what I use as my usual business email.

     My wife, Carolyn is now in the process of Beta reading The Falls: Revenge (#12 in the series) in paperback form. I finished proofreading it a few days ago. I'm also in the process of editing, updating and then transferring the 13th in the series, The Falls: Thanksgiving into CreateSpace format. When that's ready, I'll be sending it to CreateSpace to set up a proof. I'm also in the middle of writing the 21st in the series. It doesn't have a proper name yet. But I'm about a third of the way into it. Yes, I keep busy.

     The summer has been oppressive here on what they call the Treasure Coast of Florida. (We live in a recently created town called Tradition in the middle of the city of Port St Lucie.) It's far from the setting of The falls back in Vermont. But, I remember a number of really hot and humid days back in the heartland of the Green Mountain State when we lived there. I remember horse flies as big as your pinky! Mosquitoes nearly the size of dragon flies! Well, okay...maybe not quite that big. Noseeums! I remember them as well. Anyway, it's hot and humid...you get the idea. New Mexico was hot, but it cooled down at night and it never had the humidity we have here.

     Still working at my stand-up desk. Love it! I wear a Fitbit now and get in my 10,000 steps a day between walking, the gym and walking in place when I'm editing at the desk. Until the next time...may the dragons watch over you...

The Falls: Inferno

     The Falls: Inferno, the 20th volume of the Falls small town series, is now at the Kindle Store, released July 15th! The citizens of The Falls and the surrounding communities are growing more and more concerned as fires are being set in buildings around the area. Starting off with old barns and cabins, the targets of a pyromaniac begin to get larger and closer to the very heart of the village. Whispers abound that should any of the businesses or houses around the town square be set, it might mean the end of the town as they know it. A community watch is initiated.

     Return to The Falls and follow Cash, Yamato, Horace, Sergeant McNealy, Doc and Meg as they hunt for the deranged arsonist! The clock is ticking! Drake receives a disturbing jolt out of the past as well. Lorraine finds a nice young man, but is he, really?

     May the dragons watch over all the citizens of The Falls...

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Summer Doldrums...

     Okay, whatever is a summer doldrum anyway? Have any of you ever seen one, felt one, given one as a gift? Anyway, we are in the midst of summer...all the fireworks have been shot off...I certainly hope. I like to watch fireworks in the sky done by professionals, but I worry about the people who do their own. Too many bad things happen when you mix fire and gunpowder.

     At the moment, I am editing the next The Falls small town mystery...getting ready to place it on Kindle within the next few days. Have to come up with a cover as well. That will be through myecovermaker.com. I use that for Kindles and CreateSpace.com for paperbacks (including the covers obviously). The Falls: Inferno is about fires being purposely set around the town. It gets more and more tense for the usually calm and cheerful citizens of The Falls. Cash Green organizes the community and they...well you'll have to read the story to see what they do!

     I am checking on the second proof of The Falls: Return, that chronicles the return of Caleb LePaige back to The Falls, along with the cruel and pathetic warden of the prison that he escaped from. That should be available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, etc. in a few weeks. I'm already halfway through editing and converting The Falls: Revenge, over to CreateSpace in paperback form. I have to admit, I'm getting better at editing.

     You can see that I'm busy. We're also putting in a new fence and then doing some landscaping in a few weeks. My wife and I now volunteer once a week at the new hospital in our area Tradition Hospital, a Martin Memorial medical facility. I work as Guest Relations, taking discharged patients out in a wheelchair, while she works in Labor and Delivery. (She wanted to rock the babies, but they don't give her the opportunity.)

     I hope the summer is wearing well on all of you. Keep busy, keep writing and reading. There's always a wonderful story just around the corner! May the dragons watch over you...

Summer Begins...

     Just got back from CA where Carolyn and I were very proud to watch our granddaughter Chelsea graduate from high school. Great soccer player, student and all round great kid! She's headed to Boston University on a soccer scholarship. This is the fourth grandchild to graduate from high school, and the next one in line won't get there for about seven years. Had a great time at our son and daughter-in-law's house along with quite a few other members of the extended family. Our son and his wife always go out of their way to make us feel welcome and a real part of their family. I can't begin to express how good that makes us feel.

     I'm finishing editing The Falls: Return today then the proof is on to Carolyn for her edit as well. I'm not pleased with the cover, so there will be a whole new makeover, picture, cover color and font color. That paperback should be ready to be available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and CreateSpace.com soon.

     Heading into the home stretch with the new book, The Falls: Inferno. About four-fifths of the way done. I'm writing the crucial scene today in fact right after this. The characters have already whispered what should happen. Now let's see if it actually turns out that way. One never knows when an inspiration might strike!

     It's fantasy football league time! I run two leagues for family and friends. One league has drafted and the other one is getting there. I do enjoy playing owner and general manager! Hope that all the dad's out there have a good day. To me, Father's Day is simply a time for me to be thankful for having five of the most wonderful 'kids' imaginable!

     May the dragons watch over you all...

Happy Memorial Day...

     To all those who have served or are now serving...a heartfelt, proud and sincere THANK YOU for all you have done to keep our great nation free and proud. We owe you more than we will ever be able to repay and you will always be in our hearts and memories...