PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING JUNE 6, 2026

 HELLO EVERYBODY!

There's a lot of ground to cover this week so let's get right to it.

There isn't much progress to report in regards to HUGH MONN, PRIVATE DETECTIVE's prequel novel PRIVATE BATTLES. Still within Chapter 19 and the 35,000+ word count.

But this time it wasn't because of life, the universe and everything else that usually gets in my way.

Early last week I, and all the other contributors to the project, received the PDF galley from Airship 27 to proofread and make any corrections concerning the Jaime Ramos Tribute Anthology.

The book's back cover

Jaime's last writing endeavor before his untimely passing on September 30, 2025 was a new noir project entitled Streets of Golgotha.

Part mystery. Part horror. All Jaime, who was kind enough to open the mythical Wisconsin city to his friends and fellow contributors.

Jaime has the first tale "The City of Skulls" and introduced his latest character, John Normandy. A reluctant TV personality and psychic.

Then Teel James Glenn, Nancy Hansen, Wayne Carey, Bobby Nash and myself all explore those unforgiving streets before a round robin adventure closes out the anthology.

As he wrote in the introduction back in 2023:

"I wanted my city to be hard-core, filled with dirty cops, the Mafia, corrupt religious figures. I wanted the city to be laid out with French catacombs underneath and urban Gothic design on the surface. I set the landmarks of the city and had a friend of mine make me a map. I decided to place it in upper Wisconsin. And I decided it always seemed to be raining or snowing or both. Crime would be mixed with mysticism and darkness."

He was even hoping to work on a second volume once the first was published, but life and health issues had other ideas.

The anthology is due out soon from Airship 27 in print and e-book formats via Amazon and everyone involved has done Jaime proud.

I'll have more about this upon publication but before I go, I would just like to thank all my readers and fans for granting this blog 32,120 page views during the month of May 2026.

Now I better get back to writing.

Take care.

STAY SAFE!

And I'll see you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

7 June, 2026

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING JUNE 6, 2020

THIS AND THAT.

Have a few things to share with everyone, so let's get right to it.

SOLITAIRE

Currently in the middle of Chapter 18 and approaching the 40,000 word mark.
Whether the Tokyo leg of the adventure ends here or in Chapter 19 remains to be seen however.

SHERLOCK HOLMES
Got "The Adventure of the Unimaginable" back from my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader yesterday. Want to finish at least Chapter 18, if not the entire Tokyo section of SOLITAIRE, before I start going over Holmes in earnest.
How long that will take once I actually start remains to be seen, because I'll be working on trying to turn a first draft into a polished manuscript ready for submitting to Airship 27.

YESTERDAY
June 6 was D-Day, the turning point of World War 2 for the Allied Forces.
Winston Churchill is to have said after the fact, "Never was so much owed by so many to so few."
It was a long and decisive battle on the beaches of Normandy that eventually led to the defeat of the Nazis and their evils.
Which leads me to...

TODAY
You don't need me to remind you of recent events concerning George Floyd and others.

Bigotry, discrimination, inequality, and all the other (social) sins of the world are wrong and should not be tolerated, let alone allowed to continue.
Yet while the Allied Action was necessary in the 1940s, there are more peaceful methods of protest and standing up for your rights available.
After all, the loudest chance to express your voice and opinion is coming this November with Election Day!

So STAY SAFE, and I'll see you around the Internet.
Lee Houston, Junior
7 June, 2020

PROGRESS REPORT: WEEK ENDING JUNE 6, 2015

Not really all that much to say at the moment.

"On my way!"

I AM hard at work on the concluding chapters to ALPHA, BOOK 2: WAYWARD SON.

While I will give the overall manuscript a complete, final review before submitting it to the publisher, Chapters 1-15 are done. Just haven't sent anything to my friendly neighborhood beta-proofreader yet because I haven't decided yet where Chapter 16 will end and 17 will begin.

Well, I better get back to work now.

See you around the Internet.

Lee Houston, Junior

7 June, 2015