Okay, Miss Atwell, point taken.I wish to apologize to you all for the long silence on this blog. And unless you’ve been seeing the posts I’ve made on our other blog “The Musings of Two Creative Minds” where we cover a variety of topics on writing, book reviews, movie reviews, as well as a few other oddball subjects.

Here’s the link for anyone interested in checking that blog out: Musings of Two Creative MInds

Anyway, I’ll bring you up to date on where we’ve been and why it’s been so quiet here, as briefly as possible. Towards the end of last July, Helen and I moved out of California and up to Olympia in Washington state. We bought a home here, with Helen’s brother and their mother, and if you can believe it, after 8 months we’re still getting settled in. Now, besides setting up the house the way we all want, plus new doctors and insurance, etc. I’m still dealing with trying to get SSDI from Social Security. Hopefully, this will get settled by the end of June when I have a phone hearing with a judge. Please keep your fingers crossed for me, this has been a grueling process over the last 3 years.

So, in short… a lot has been going on behind the scenes. And yes, I’m just a wee bit tired from it.

Who am I kidding, I’m exhausted. 

But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy mentally. I’ve done a lot of thinking over the last few months (yes, that is something I can actually do… surprise, surprise) and I came to a few decisions about things I’d like to do by the end of this year. 

First of all, I am aiming to release a 2nd anthology involving Nathan and company. Like the 1st anthology, this volume will contain a number of stories that have appeared on this blog, as well as a number of brand new never-before-seen tales as well.

This 2nd anthology will be titled “The Vampyre Blogs – Two for the Road”. If all goes well it will come out later this year, just in time for the Halloween or Thanksgiving/Christmas holiday season. We could do it sooner, but we have other obligations that need our attention first. One of them of course, is the upcoming hearing I mentioned earlier. 

Also, Helen has a new installment of her Forever Detective series that should be ready in the next few months. I’m currently working on the cover for that book which will be titled Forever on Broadway.

For those not familiar with this series, here’s a quick synopsis. They’re all about detective turned into a vampire against his will, in 1940’s New York City, who is still running his business and taking on cases for both regular people, as well as supernatural/magical folks. This will be the 6th installment to the series. The first four books are available on Audible (with yours truly supplying all the voices). I haven’t gotten to the 5th book just yet, as I’m still getting my recording area set up and tested. But once I’ve done so, I’ll get down to recording that one as well as the new one. 

If you’re curious to check the rest of the series out here’s the link: Link: The Forever Detective (5 book series) Kindle Edition

So, as you all have probably figured out already, finishing the cover, and doing the recordings of those books, are a couple of those little ‘tasks’ I have lined up to be completed before this year is out.

And there’s a little more I haven’t mentioned yet, but I’ll cover all of that in the next post. So please, take care of yourselves and be safe out there. And I’ll be back soon to continue this discussion (and yes I do mean SOON). So stay tuned, and happy reading everyone.