Don't forget to download my book from Amazon.com for free!  Starting Halloween and until November 4, 2014, I am offering the Kindle version of "A Song for Eventide" absolutely free.  No strings attached.  I am not even going to plead with you to leave a kind review after you read it.  

Don't have a Kindle, you say?  Well, tell your all your friends about it.  One of them is bound to have one, and I bet they'd let you borrow it.  You can't bring yourself to read an e-book as you love the feel of the real thing far too much?  Call me up on your rotary phone, you know the one with the cord, and I'll do my best to convince you to get with the times.  Although maybe you'll convince me to record myself reading my book onto a tape cassette so can listen to it on your Walkman.  Either way it is a win, as I just want people to read my story.

If you want to talk about it, come see me at Old Firehouse Books in Old Town Fort Collins on Friday, November 7, from 6 to 7 PM.  I'll have a good old fashioned hard copy waiting for you!  (But you will have to buy that one.)

Seriously though, tell everyone.  I really want to see a bunch of downloads.

Thanks for reading,
JBL

I like to think that my lack of new material lately is simply my mind's way to relax itself before the madness that is NaNoWriMo.  November is almost upon us and I have once again decided to take up the challenge.  It won't be easy, November is already a busy month for our household.  I have a daughter turning three, a guest author appearance at Old Firehouse Books, a house to sell, a move to make, and a wife to dote on.

My plan is to write at night and in the early morning, while said wife and daughter are still sleeping.  We will see how that goes.  If that doesn't work out, I will have to bail on our weekly Netflix fix.  I love Grey's Anatomy and Nashville just as much as the next guy, but sacrifices have to be made.

I want to assure you that despite my absence from the Scriptorium, I have been doing some writing.  I just don't have anything to throw up here that can stand on its own.  But I feel James Ratabaugh knocking around in my head, Alyssa Lattimer is going stir crazy, and the denizens of Saerna have many stories to be told.  

Did you notice that I mentioned a guest author appearance?  You should come.  Friday, November 7, from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, I will be hawking my wares and answering questions from all my fans (that's right, my mom and dad are making the trip) at Old Firehouse Books in Old Town Fort Collins.  

Oh yeah, to celebrate my guest author appearance, I will be offering free downloads of "A Song for Eventide" at Amazon.com. starting on Halloween and continuing through November 4.  So please, download the e-book and give it a read.  If you want to seek me out afterwards to give me accolades or raspberries, you know where to find me on the 7th.  Maybe you'll want to buy a hard copy and ask me to sign it.  I'll be thinking of witty inscriptions until then.

Thanks for reading,
JBL

This week's writing was devoted to that lout, James Ratabaugh, and his path to becoming a Seeder Ship pilot for The Fellowship of Man.  This is my attempt to throw a little more meat on the bones.