Over a month ago, my drip coffee maker broke. instead of getting a new one of fixing it, I have been boil water with coffee in it then poring that into the filter by hand. Doing that I use less than half the coffee for a far better tasting cup. Drip coffeemaker are wasteful. They also use more electric than I realized, keeping your coffee hot.
It hadn’t taken long for Ashes to get into deep trouble after becoming a full sorceress. It had been trouble of the type she either killed, or suffered badly. Now she and the two men she used as cover to escape the guard have to flee. Now available on Kindle Vella or Pateron.
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This ongoing story, and many of my other works are now available on Ream and have more content I am constantly adding. https://reamstories.com/jamesrsteinhaus. With the Story Donald of Mars, I have used fiction to try to give people a more realistic idea of what living on Mars would be like. I hope you will read that and my other works there.
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This isn't a criticism of Trump and Musk. It was coming this term no matter who got that office.
Here is a summery of much of the world building that went into the Kara stories
Long before I wrote Renegade on Kara, I wrote a very different story about the universe of Kara, and about a high-tech decadent human society finding it. That story eventually ended up with the title Kara Discovered after I tried quite a few other titles. But during its third draft, I abandoned that project and used it for my world building of my next story. I wrote, over and over and over, the…
Sometimes a lot is at stake getting a job done on time
A flash lit the room as deafening thunder smashed into the window and John pulled his hand away from the contract in panic. Had he smudged it? Another flash lit the room from further away. With an aching back and tired eyes he tried to make out whether or not this contract was ruined. The flame madly dancing atop the candle from the storm made that difficult. A much weaker boom hit, barely…
Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!
Some of my test readers of Vikings of Asgard have asked me about the character King Peter. Here is a partial spoiler; He is an Avatar. But unlike the movie Avatar, anyone that sits in the operator chair can operate him and when no one is in it, the AI runs him. Junior researchers mostly operate him. Asgard is their experiment. One of thousands, in fact. They have as little regard for the people…
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Bob’s people decide that their first raid deserves a party. But what is a party without politics? Also available on Patron. https://www.patreon.com/posts/vikings-of-20-77564533
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I have a new website. It is still under construction, but I have the basics in place now. My author site https://wordpress.com/home/jamesrsteinhausauthor.wordpress.com is still active. But most of my updates will be taking place here from now on. Vella Links
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