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Chapter 9 Up on Wattpad

01 Monday Jul 2013

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The likelihood of running out of banana slug pics appears low
(Image courtesy of The Oregonian, where they obviously have slugs too)

I’m not getting any comments from anyone who’s not a friend or acquaintance, so I have no idea really if my stuff is any good.  My friends tell me it is, and that they are enjoying it, but they’re, ya know, my friends.  I’d like to think they’re good enough friends so if my stuff sucked they’d just tell me, but you never know, right?

But in any event, in my continuing effort to be an author of fiction and not just technical documentation for big computer companies–which, don’t get me wrong, is not a bad gig, and something that I enjoy–I have posted Chapter 9 on Wattpad.  Take a look, if you so desire.

Chapter 8 Up on Wattpad

28 Friday Jun 2013

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You might think that by Chapter 8, I would be running low on pictures of banana slugs. And that would almost certainly have been true in the pre-Web era, or even the Web 1.0 era, but it sure ain’t true now.

And so you know what it means when there’s a new banana slug picture up on my blog:  That’s right, there’s a new chapter of my mystery novel set in Santa Cruz, home of the Fightin’ Slugs, out on Wattpad.  You know what to do.  So do it.

A Study with Slugs, Chapter 7: “Aftermath of Apocalypse” Now Available

25 Tuesday Jun 2013

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After all, why not?

The thunder of responses in my in-box has been precedented (i.e., no comments whatsoever) and, as such, I am compelled to let you all know that yet another chapter of my non-magnum opus 1980s Santa Cruz mystery novel is now ready for your reading pleasure on Wattpad.  Because I can, that’s why!

Chapter 6: “In Which a Party Is Held” Now Available

22 Saturday Jun 2013

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It’s amazing how many banana slug pictures you can find on the Internet these days, yeah?

Chapter 6, “In Which a Party Is Held, And Tosh Gleans Some Information” of my 1980s Santa Cruz mystery novel is now up for your reading pleasure on Wattpad.  So if you have Wattpad on your smartphone or table, why not take a look?  Or just surf over there and check it out?  But whatever you do with this information, know this:  I’ll keep putting out these chapters every couple of days or so until the story is done.  So there!

Study with Slugs Chapter 5: Canvassing the Crazies

20 Thursday Jun 2013

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Image courtesy of Random Ruckus

Chapter 5 of my 1980s Santa Cruz-based mystery novel “A Study with Slugs”, “Canvassing the Crazies”–in which our intrepid investigators use Surf City’s population of ubiquitous, somewhat-unhinged homeless people to their advantage–is now available for your reading pleasure on WattPad.  Read it and weep.  Or laugh.  Or get pissed off.  Or be abjectly puzzled.  Whatever.  But read it, in any case!

Novel “Study with Slugs” Chapter 4 Now Available

17 Monday Jun 2013

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Image of banana slug invaders from space courtesy of Pxleyes.com

In keeping with my personal vow to publish a chapter of my 1980’s Santa Cruz Holmesesque mystery novel “A Study with Slugs” on Wattpad every day or two, I have posted Chapter 4, “What the Elves Had to Tell”.  Give it a read and, if you are so inclined, tell me your opinion about it below!

 

Novel Chapter 3 Now Available

14 Friday Jun 2013

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A banana slug in a tea-cozy? Heck if I know!

Despite the roaring lack of encouragement, I continue to plod on, publishing a chapter of my novel every other day or so.  The latest chapter is available at WattPad; please surf on over and check it out.  And if you happen to read it, hey, it would be wonderful if you left comments there on WattPad, or here, or just IM’d me and told me what a talentless idiot I am and how I should give it up.  

And maybe if my friend Becky sees the above photo, she’ll tell us–from deep in her bag of knitting knowledge–what the heck it is.

Chapter 2 Now Available

12 Wednesday Jun 2013

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Two slugs; second chapter; get it?

For those of you who are interested–don’t all speak up at once!–Chapter 2 of my mystery novel “A Study with Slugs” (until such a time as someone suggests a better title) is now available for your reading pleasure and/or derision on Wattpad; please surf on over and give it a read.  And leave comments, or I’m never going to improve as a writer, dammit!

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