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The aftermath of my cold has slowed me down, but I’ve made my final pass through my science fiction novel, One Survivor<\/a>. Karen will go over it one more time, and then I can upload it to Lightning Source<\/a>. It should be available in a week or so.<\/p>\n

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And it’s about time, too, considering I started this project in 1987! <\/p>\n

After that, we’ll finish up the third book in the Tom Slade<\/a> series. And there are plenty more books where these came from — chicken books, farm books, novels, you name it — all stacked up waiting for us to find some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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