SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: SUPER SWINGIN' HERO 1968 SPECIAL NOW AVAILABLE!

From Mechanoid Press, cover by Scott McCullar

Okay folks, I didn't find out about this until earlier, but here's a ray of sunshine to brighten your day!
The Super Swingin' Hero 1968 Special has just been released for the Kindle by Mechanoid Press, with the print version soon to follow.

This anthology was a labor of love over most of the Spring as I helped Jazzy Jim Beard assemble an all star cast of authors to create some of the most outlandish send-ups in all of comicdom in one kooky collection of heroes straight from the flip side.

Thrill to the afterlife adventures of Ghostman by comics legend David Michelinie!
Hang out with Beauty and the Beetle as they solve a mystery of Lovecraftian proportions by Sam Gafford!
Witness The Coming of Changeor by Erwin K. Roberts!
Discover how The Crawler Creeps with Chuck Miller.
Do you dare go adventuring with Fate's Four and Thomas Deja?
Soar with The Peregrine and the Pigeon with Bonnie J. Sterling as your co-pilot.
What enigmatic mystery has Mark Halegua created for the robot detectives of Automation Investigations, Inc.?
Will Hathor's Gift be of any H.E.L.P.? Only Lisa Collins knows.

And finally, your kooky co-editors get into the act!
Jim presents the latest adventure of The Go-Go Gears and I reveal the outrageous origin of The Substandard Quintet!

The sky’s the limit for these Swingin’ Heroes in a pulse pounding collection of superhero prose fiction unlike anything you’ve ever seen before!

The wait is over Mechanoid Mavens!
You can get you Kindle copy now at AMAZON, and the print copy soon!

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING JANUARY 10, 2015

What is it about the number 13?
People have been superstitious about it for countless generations.
In my case, I will make sure the first reading session of a new book stops after page 13, and I will not stop in the middle of a writing project on page 13.
WHY?
Dang if I know, but I bring this up because Chapter 13 to ALPHA, BOOK 2: WAYWARD SON seems to be my main stumbling block at the moment.
It is kind of an intermission period between the big event in the first half of the novel, and what is to come in the latter pages.

Alpha

I've rewritten it twice already to make the information more interesting than just a standard "info dump" chapter, yet I don't want events in this section to either contradict what has already happened, nor do I want to tip my hand about what will happen in the future.
Then again, maybe what they say about "The third time being the charm" will come true in this case, because I have sent the third revision of this chapter back to my friendly neighborhood proofreader Nancy Hansen for review, and should get it back with her thoughts later this week.

Meanwhile, I've been privileged to read three more short stories in that upcoming superhero anthology I've been teasing everyone about in some of my more recent progress reports. Lisa M. Collins, Thomas Deja, and Jim Beard himself have now submitted their stories.
I've reviewed them and sent Jim my thoughts on each. Until the remaining tales arrive, I'm back at work on ALPHA.

See you around the Internet!
Lee Houston, Junior
11 January, 2015

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING JANUARY 3, 2015

Before we get down to the new business of a new year, there is a bit of leftover old business from 2014 that must be addressed first.
Filling Blank Spaces closed out the previous year at 2,231 page views!
I would like to personally thank all my readers and fans for visiting this site and seeing how I'm doing.
Now then...

This past week has been quite exciting on two fronts.
Writing wise, I'm almost done with Chapter 14 and sent Chapter 13 of ALPHA, BOOK 2: WAYWARD SON to my friendly neighborhood beta/proofreader Nancy Hansen, who sent it back to me with some heartfelt notes and critiques; which promptly had me going back over the chapter for some serious revising.
It has since been sent back to her once more and I eagerly await her opinions.
Concurrently, the remainder of Book 2 IS plotted out, I just have to commit it from notes and memory to actual reality.

Otherwise, I have not been idle, for on the other front, I have been wearing my editor's hat a lot this past week too.
While she had Chapter 13, Nancy asked me to beta/proofread her next installment of THE KEENER EYE, her private detective series.
The story is tentatively scheduled as a future Single Shot from Pro Se Press.

ALSO, I am in the middle of reviewing TWO stories for that future superhero anthology from Mechanoid Press I keep mentioning on this blog. I've almost finished Lisa M. Collins' contribution, and Thomas Deja's awaits.  When those are done, I will be returning to work on ALPHA 2.
More on the anthology as things develop, for not every tale has been submitted yet.

So in any event, I better get back to work.
See you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior

4 January, 2015