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This
past week was productive, just have an office door that I can close
and then be able to immerse myself in work is a really big deal. I
say that and then have to get up for the cat who really does not
understand the office door, or why I am suddenly inaccessible for
hours at a time every day. So maybe I should say it has worked out
great except for the cats attitude toward it.
Monday:
Monday I organized everything writing wise. During construction I
switched to a laptop, I use a 2.5 SATA for my primary drive so I can
take that out of a desktop and right into a laptop. It’s formatted
for WIN 7 with a Linux partition, so it only takes a few minutes. I
have both so that if one drops I can reach my files with the other
Operating System. Sounds complicated but if you know what I’m talking
about, you know it isn’t. The nice thing is Linux Ubuntu 12
integrates smoothly and I can run the same programs in either
environment either using Linux based versions such as Open
Office/Libra Office Gimp for Win Gimp for Linux, or Wine to run
windows programs as stand alone programs right from the Ubuntu
desktop.
When
I started construction I took my drive out of my desktop, turned the
desktop into a file server and went with a laptop. All I did the
other day was remount the drive in my new desktop and go through the
files. I had done work over the last several months, including
writing ES 4 on that laptop, but nothing was organized with files
both on the server and the laptop drive, so, I put them all together.
I found the first six books in the America The Dead series. Those books have never been released but their content has filtered down into the OutRunners books. I also found that the second OutRunners book is done, sitting in a folder. It had no outwork finished, so I finished the artwork and that is now awaiting editing. Earth’s Survivors SE books have been sidelined for months. The problem was editing. Since they were done by different editors they do not read the same. Both have been re-edited by the same editor and those will be out soon. SE 1 and SE 2 are really only pumped up versions of the regular books. SE1 contains book one and two, character pictures, bibliography’s and more. SE2 is book three and four and the other bonus material. You can buy either cheaper than you can buy the two books separately, hence the purpose. I will decided soon what to do with the America The Dead books.
I also decided the next Settlement Earth book will be the Fold. The Fold is the main nemesis of the Nation. For most of you,since it will concentrate on building the Fold’s Community and little Zombie action, you may be unsatisfied. Some of you scream, Zombie! Zombie! Zombie! Some of you scream, Survivors Settling! But, the OutRunners books are full time Zombies and Zombies battles, so you will have your Zombies and your Settlements in both the Nation and Fold communities.
My impressions of the week. I think there will be a great deal of new work this spring. I can see another ES or Plague book, which ever way that turns out. There will be a new Settlement Earth book. The Second Dreamers Book. Billy Jingo & Hurricane in the Rebecca Monet series of Pulp books. A second stand alone OutRunners book and then both of those books offered digitally. A new SE1 and SE2 as well as digital versions of those books.
Billy Jingo will probably need an advisory warning. I have read the work as it came out. I originally wrote the seed for it, and when I wrote it it was a graphic book. We discussed that and it will remain as written, probably with an advisory which will keep kids away from the book but that’s a good idea anyway.
Okay. What else could I do but offer you a sneak peek at all that work that went into Billy Jingo this week. This work is unedited. It is also graphic, although I wont publish the really graphic stuff here. I hope you enjoy the preview, I’ll be back next week…
SANGER ROAD
(Working Title) BILLY JINGO
By
Wendell Sweet
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Cover
and Interior Art Copyright 2013 Wendell Sweet
(Sanger Road) BILLY JINGO
Copyright
2013 Wendell Sweet.
Saturday night
Jimmy had parked his
car two blocks away and walked. He hadn’t liked it but he’d had no
choice. He had now been watching the place for an hour. Two
bodyguards, girlfriend, an anorexic crack head with silicone
implants, two kids from another woman, ex wife. This guy had to be
the dumbest bastard he’d ever seen. Everything right there to make
him talk.
He’d seen two drug
pick ups so far. His own people that worked under Richard Dean. They
drove straight into the garage: open the door, down with the door,
back out and away with their stuff. He had moved over to the door
and waited in the shrubbery. Hidden in the hedge. Another dumb move
on this guys part, or his security. You never planted shrubbery that
close to the house or a doorway. But either way it would work out
well for him.
He didn’t wait long,
the next car came, the door went up, and Jimmy rolled under as the
door as it was coming down, ending up right behind the Camaro rag top
that had pulled in. A long legged black girl got out of the car and
started up the steps that lead into the house. Jimmy took a couple of
fast strides and ended up beside her.
“Sorry, honey,”
he said as he shot her in the back of the head with the silenced 9
mm. He caught her and eased her to the floor. “Better for you,”
he told her. “Believe me, much better.” He took three deep
breaths and tested the doorknob, unlocked. He paused, flexed his
legs, then burst through the door.
Both bodyguards were
standing, arms folded, chatting with Richard Dean’s teenage daughter
he had spotted going into the house earlier. He shot both bodyguards
before they could move, and then punched the girl hard, knocking her
out. Richard dean himself came running to see what the excitement was
about.
He tried to play it
tough.
“Do you know
who I am,” Richard dean asked?
“A fuckin’ dead
guy if you don’t shut the fuck up,” Jimmy said. He put the gun
barrel to his head. “pick up your daughter… Where is everyone
else,” Jimmy asked? …
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That’s the week. I hope you have escaped the bad weather that seems to have struck nation wide. Please visit my sponsor:
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