Club High Castle Pre-Pandemic

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it's time for most to curl up, relax, and enjoy a good book! While I'm saving up for an editor for my novel, I am writing short stories set in the same universe. They are all set five years before the events that take place in The Year is Now . Here is the debut of my first short story ebook! It is available for $2.75 and is suitable for e-readers, iPads, and other e-reading devices. Lucius Sinclair  Click here to purchase Lucius Sinclair. The year is Y.E. 0417, and Lucius Sinclair is finally free of his reckless, abusive twin. Where Remus was gifted with wit and brawn, Lucius was plagued with a nasty little trait that the empire exterminates—telepathy. Now that he is attending vocational school and is far away from his brother, Lucius is shocked to find that he is actually excelling at his trade. Just when he feels safe and starts fitting in with his peers, he stumbles into a disturbing truth. It turns out that he’s not the only o...

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I normally shy away from cliché “What am I thankful for” posts, but I feel that I need to make one this year. This is partly due to the fact that the retail trend of pushing Black Friday into Thanksgiving has gotten worse this year. If you’re not sure what I am talking about, go to google and do some quick research. Whatever happened to taking a break from the real world to enjoy the company of your loved ones? When I was a child, going out to buy things you didn’t need on Thanksgiving was unheard of. The grocery stores would open in the mornings for those last minute food items people forgot, but they were always closed by noon. Always. You simply didn’t go out shopping (that’s what Black Friday was for). You didn’t shop before eating and certainly not afterwards—The children would play with their siblings and cousins while the adults sat around the “adult” table, drinking their mysterious adult beverages. It was a day to enjoy yourself,...

YARRRG! I had myself a buccaneeringly good time yesterday! What is a pirate's favorite letter? The sea, of course! The pirate costume was a hit. I enjoyed the number of pirate jokes people told me last night. ...And now for a not so creative subject transition, because I will sit here all morning trying to come up with a way to meld Halloween and pirate talk into personalized mouse pads and writing. I only have so much time before I need to be at work, Harrrr! There are many things you can do with digital art. I figured it was high time I turned one of my pictures into something tangible and useful. Take this picture I drew a few weeks ago, for example! Taken as soon as I got home from working a late shift.  I was that excited when I saw that it had come in the mail! Here is the bright daytime version!  The key chain is glossy, so the camera's flash sort of made it look glittery. I am pleased with how these two things turned out! There are many pla...