For the rest of this week, the first 5 books in my Chronicles of Analamar series, (Kindle e-book versions) are on sale for just 99 cents. But that's not all. The sixth book is on sale for the low, low price of FREE.

Check 'em out!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089GH23PY

I'd like to promote again a Facebook Group that I created for the discussion of my novels. Titled, appropriately enough, The Chronicles of Analamar, it's a place to talk about the books, hear announcements about upcoming ones, and well, anything else related to them that you'd care to discuss. It's not a high volume group, so it won't fill up your Facebook with lotsa stuff, but all are welcome. :)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/4159885917396742

Kevin

I haven't mentioned this for a while, so here goes.

In early 1989, I started work on a novel. The best way to describe it is a traditional Fantasy novel of the same type as The Lord of the Rings.

Over the course of the next 30 years or so, I kept working on it, and a handful of sequels. As of today, I have self published via Amazon Books 1 through 5 of "The Chronicles of Anamamar" series.

Book 6 should be released fairly quickly. I am hopeful for before the end of February, and maybe sooner if I can get everything properly organized.

In the meantime, I'd like to recommend these my books for your reading enjoyment. They are available in all three formats that Amazon offers, E-book for Kindle, paperback and hardcover, depending on your budget. :)

So follow the link below, and consider checking them out. I think you'll enjoy them if you do, and it's a good way to get ready for Book 6 in the very near future.

Enjoy.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089GH23P.....qid=1641256253

I found out today that the strange bump on my arm is "T-Cell lymphoma." I am told that this is a kind of a blood cancer. But, because it is manifested on my skin, it is both unusual, and probably very treatable.

Other than that, I am actually in pretty good health. All of my recent tests tell me that my kidneys, cholesterol, A1C, liver, PSA and everything else is perfectly fine. Plus, I've lost so much weight that when I bought new jeans today, they had a 34" waist. I haven't worn a 34" waist since High School!

In other words, I seem to be doing well, and am confident that this thing on my arm can be easily treated and done away with. Based on conversation with my regular doctor, this is very likely.

And you know, I'm not worried about, because I know who holds tomorrow, and I know who holds my hand.

I think I might sing that on Sunday. I'm sure the pastor won't object. Especially since, well, I'm the pastor. :)

Every once in a while, you come across a book series that is REALLY good, and you find yourself wanting to promote it to others. One such series is The Chronicles of Analamar. There are currently 5 books in this really great fantasy series, and I'd like to strongly recommend it for your reading enjoyment.

You can find it here...

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-A...../dp/B098B7L4RS

It's available in both paperback, and e-book for Kindle. (Which is quite a bit less expensive.)

I happen to believe that it's a really excellent series of stories.

But then again, I wrote them. :)

If you haven't already, please check 'em out, and if you like 'em, drop a review on Amazon.


Kevin

Hi everyone.

If you read the first novel in my "Chronicles of Analamar" series titled, "The Constable and the Chief Captain," I would like to say, "Thank you." I would also like to mention that you can still get the Kindle e-book versions of books two and three, "The Forest, The Stone, The Elvenking" and "The Necromancer's Door" for just 99 cents until 11 PM Pacific time tonight. [January 31st] So check 'em out. That way you'll be up to date when Book Four comes out in a few weeks.

You'll find them here...

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-A.....137&sr=8-1

Post a review while you're at it.

Kevin

Hi, everyone.

I thought it might actually be worth while to share this information here. For the rest of today, and all day tomorrow, the Kindle e-book version of my first novel, "The Constable and the Chief Captain," is available for FREE! Yes, you read that correctly, I am for a limited time making my first novel available to interested persons at no cost whatsoever.

But wait there's more!

The Kindle versions of my second and third novels, "The Forest, The Stone, The Elvenking" and "The Necromancer's Door" are available right now, and for the rest of the year, for the very low price of $0.99 each! So, take advantage of these super low prices to check out my novels to see if you like them. And if you do, you'll be all set and ready for when Book 4, "Treason in Pelcon" comes out early next year.

If I may be so bold, if you like High or Epic Fantasy type fiction, you should enjoy these stories.

Just go to amazon.com and search for "The Chronicles of Analamar" to find the whole series.

Or, just follow this link...

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-A.....469&sr=8-1

Enjoy. And feel free to review on Amazon. Especially if you like 'em.

It occurs to me that posting this here might actually be a good idea. For the rest of today, and all day tomorrow, you can get the Kindle e-book copy of my first novel, "The Constable and the Chief Captain" for FREE! Yes, you read that correctly, for a very limited time only, my first book is free.

But wait, there's more! Also right now, and till the end of the year, you can get the Kindle versions of my second and third novels, "The Forest, The Stone, The Elvenking" and "The Necromancer's Door" for the incredible low price of just 99 cents each!

So, this is a good opportunity to check out my novels for next to nothing, and be up to speed for when I release Book 4, "Treason in Pelcon" early next year.

Go to amazon.com and search for, The Chronicles of Analamar to find the series. In case you have not guessed from the titles, we are talking Fantasy type fiction here.

Or, just follow this link...

https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-A.....469&sr=8-1

Check 'em out, please? And post a review if you like 'em. :)

Hi everyone.

My second novel is now available on Amazon. Check out, "The Forest, The Stone, The Elvenking" on Amazon here..

https://www.amazon.com/Forest-Stone.....808&sr=8-2

Hey, if anybody is interested, I published my first novel. You can find it on Amazon.com by searching for "The Constable and the Chief Captain." Or, just follow this link..

https://www.amazon.com/Constable-Ch.....160&sr=8-1

I've been working on this thing for over 30 years, and I am glad to say it is now readable by everyone. I hope some of you may find it interesting.

Oh, and I should be releasing the second one in just a few days.

It's been a while since I posted anything here so, here goes.

Ten days ago, I turned 50-1/2 years old!

Yep, 50 years, 6 months and 10 days of age.

Pretty amazing if you ask me.

PM me for instructions on where to send gifts! :)

Hi everyone.

Well, Anthrocon is next week, and I'm again throwing my traditional party for folks on the TTA Fanfic list. We're gonna be holding it at the Renessance this year, but still at the traditional Thursday evening timeslot. Arrive as early as 4 PM. Food will be served about 5, and the video will start at 6. I've sort of found a way to tie it to the Anthrocon theme this year, and to honor one of the con's guests of honor at the same time.

Send me a note if you need more details.

Kevin

Hey everyone! Yes, it's gonna happen! I am going to Anthrocon and I am throwing my traditional Tiny Toons party for the folks who are/have been on my TTA Fanfic mailing list.

As is customary, food will be served at 6 PM, with the special video I have made being played at 7. After that, general fun and frivolity will follow for as late as we wish.

Also, as is traditional, we'll be holding it at the Courtyard, and folks are free to show up early for chat and genearal enjoyment.


So, if you've been before, or if you know me, but this will be your first Anthrocon and you wanna come, you are invited. :)

My cel phone is 603 759 8370 if you need to contact me/confirm that you are coming.


Kevin

This is downright silly. It's not even Halloween yet, and the forcast is for maybe a foot of snow in the suburbs of Boston where I live. Oh, this is gonna be SO much fun!

At leat my snowblower works.

Sigh... What a week...

Monday. Have the day off as a holiday for New Years cuz NYD was on a Saturday.

So, knowing that I have a doctor's appointment sometime in early January, I decide I will swing by the office to confirm when it is. Got out to get in my car... and it won't start. Turn the key, lights, radio, airconditioner all come on fine, but it won't turn over. It won't even click. Oh great. Now, in addition to wanting to swing by the doc's office, there were a few other errands that I had to take care of that day in that area, I could not put them off. So, I borrowed Mom's car, did my errands, and confirmed that my appointment was on Wednesday. I figure, okay, I'll take Wednesday off work cuz of the doctor appointment, take the car to the garage in the AM, go to the doc in the PM. No problem.

Tuesday. First day back to work after Christmas shut down. Over shutdown, the AV system in the Boardroom was given some major upgrades. It is also my first day in a (technically) new job. I was transferred from one division to another , so I have much new paperwork and technical "stuff" to do as a consequence. Among other things, I don't yet have my new insurance cards. I call the benefits center, and am told, here is my number, just give that to your doc, it'll be enough. For prescriptions, just tell them you are CVS Caremark, you are in the system, won't be any problem. Okay. Continue to work on stuff. Then, at about 10 AM, just as I am starting to get to work on all the stuff, I get a call, the install techs are here to finish the work, and I need to escort them. So, I take them up to the boardroom to do their work. BTW, there is a "test" of the new system at 3. But, the system is not working. We manage to jury rig something to get it working for the test, but it is still not right. Well, the two techs work hard to fix it, and at 8:30 PM, it is all fixed, and we go home. I also decide, that since there is another test tomorrow, that is very important, at 11 AM, after I take the car to the garage, I will go into work to cover the test. That should make me look good.

Wednesday. Get up and call AAA to take my car to the garage. Tell them to send a flatbed. I drive a 1995 Caprice Classic station wagon with a really LONG wheelbase, and do not want it dragging the ground on a standard tow truck. "That'll cost $25" No problem. I want it. Okay, I will be called when the truck is 5 minutes away. About half an hour later, I get the call, the truck is 5 minutes away. Twenty minutes later, I call AAA. "Where's the truck? You called me 20 mins ago to say it would be here in 5." Well, the dispatch computer says he's there.. He's not... Whilst I am on the phone with AAA, the truck arrives. It is a flatbed, and it's already got a car on it. Uhm... How you plan to tow my car when there is already a car on your flatbed. Easy, put it on the hook and tow it behind the truck. Uhm... NO! I called for a flatbed, and I am PAYING extra for one, this car goes ON the flatbed, not on the hook. Your car is rear wheel drive, you don't need a flatbed. I WANT a flatbed! So, he finally pulls out of the driveway to take the other car off the flatbed so he can put mine on and tow the other. I say I'll see you at the garage. Takes him quite a while to get there, he apparently dropped off the other car wherever it had to be first. So with all that done, I finally go to work. Message is waiting for me, the boardroom is broken. I check it out, and it has the SAME problem that we were there till 8:30 fixing. The test is supposed to happen at 11. The tech is arriving at 11. Gets in at 11, and we put off the test till 11:30. He can only half fix it, but it's enough to demonstrate that the system works. After the test is over and all the big wigs leave, ANOTHER tech comes in to fix the problem. At 2 PM, I have to leave to go see my Doctor, so I turn the room over to a co worker. Go to Doc, and am told, Oh, gee, your appointment is on February 11th. Not today. Uhm, I was here on Monday, and was told today. No, it's February 11th. Your doc isn't even here today. Well, okay. Oh, BTW, I'm not Bluecross anymore, I am not Cigna, they said I should give you this number. "Well, what is your policy number, that's just the group number." Uh.... At this point, I start looking around for Rod Serling, as nothing makes any sense anymore. I got back to work, remember, I was supposed to take this day off, and take back the boardroom from the other guy. Well, at 4PM, the boardroom is pronounced fixed. So, I got back to my office, and try to make some sense of the new time reporting procedures that I am supposed to use. Well, I think I understand them, but the codes they gave me don't work. I eventually figured that out, and went home. BTW, I still have not checked all my e-mail from Christmas shutdown, let alone this week. Went to pick up my car, the starter was bad. $400.00

Today. I get to work, try to get through some of the backlog of stuff related to my transfer. I make some progress, call my regular doc, (the one I've been trying to see is my ankle surgeon, this was follow up to determine if I have any lasting impairment for Worker's Comp) to refill an RX. They will call it in to CVS. Get a call from Security. "Since you transferred, you no longer have a security clearance, please come get a new badge." Uhm, okay, but my clearance was supposed to transfer. It hasn't yet. Must be a snafu. As soon as it comes it, we'll re-classify you as having one, but in the meantime, you don't and you can't support anything classified. Okay, sure, no problem. BTW, we also have to take your other badge for the special area, cuz, well, you don't have clearance. Don't worry, we won't destroy it, and we'll give it back when your clearance is re-cleared. Sigh... Okay, sure. We gotta do it that way. No prob. Back to office to try to get more stuff done. About an hour later, I get a call from the special area, can I please come over and sign something, cuz, well, I don't have a clearance anymore. Yeah, okay. I'll be right over. (The special area is in another building on the other side of town. So, I head over, take care of that, then go back to the office to try to get more stuff done. Then at 1:30, I head up to the boardroom to activate the system in advance of the President's staff meeting at 3:00. Well, the system is broken again, with the SAME problem we have had twice before. I am able to manually get the data up onto the screens, but the phone interface is totally out of whack. So, I grab one of my Polycom conference phones so they can make there call. Get it working. Then I remember that I have satellite mics for the thing, making it even more useful. I go get them. One of them does not work. I determine the problem is the chord, not the mic itself. Go to the phone guys, but, they don't have the specific ends this cable needs to fix it. It uses the same smaller ends that you'll see on a handset unit on a regular phone. Neither to do they have any chords with the ends, except for a 12' coil cable, like the ones we used to have on our phones back in the 70's. Looks ridiculous, but it works, and I've got the two satellite mics working. BTW, my new boss's boss is in the room for all of this. Anyway, during all of this, I call the install/service techs to get someone in to fix the durn thing, cuz there's an even BIGGER important meeting on Monday. Well, they can get someone in tomorrow at 12:30 to fix it. Great. I also want someone in on Monday just to make sure, cuz I have no confidence anymore that it can be fixed properly. No problem, they will have someone in. So, tomorrow, at 12:30, I will be escorting the service tech to fix the thing, hopefully for good. Go to the pharmacy to get my RX, and they charge me full price. Uhm, wait, what about my insurance price. I am on CVS Caremark. Well, you are in the system, but not "fully." Here, keep this, and the receipt, and when you get your card, come back, and IF the system says you were in the system all along, we'll refund the difference. Ugh....

Did I mention that tomorrow is supposed to be an "off Friday?" That means I am supposed to have tomorrow off.

And of top of all this, there is still all the stuff I need to get done related to my transfer. Needless to say, this has NOT been my week.

Anywhoo... How is everyone else today?

:)

Kevin

Hi all

In case anyone is wondering, yes, I am throwing my annual TTA Fanfic party at Anthrcon.

As is traditional, it'll be at the Courtyard, food served at 6, video to be at 7, with fun and friendship to follow for a long as folks wanna stick around.

If you wanna come again, you are of course, welcome.

My cel phone # is 603 759 8370 if you wish to confirm your attendance.

Kevin

Well, tomorrow at about 12:30, I'll have surgery on my ankle to repair the damage. I am just thrilled all to pieces!

Well, not really. Thanks to everyone who wished me well yesterday.

Hi, everyone.

They say misery loves company, so I am gonna share my misery, in an attempt to get some company. :)

This day started out really nice, but at about 8 AM, whilst lowering a projector from the ceiling to change the dying lightbulb, the ladder I was standing on decided to throw me off of so it could lie down and take a nap.

Anyway, a result of the ensuing fall, my left ankle is now fractured. I am not in any great pain, just some mild discomfort at the moment. Tomorrow I have to go to the Orthopedic Center in Nashua to get a cast put on it. Needless to say, I'll be out of work for the rest of the week. :(

And that's about all I can say at the moment. I'll keep ya posted on further developments if and when they develop.

Kevin

Well, I've added another video to my You Tube page, and restored one that vanished. (I hope.)

They are all collected here...

http://www.youtube.com/user/HKUriah

...if you would care to take a look at them.

In case you are new here, the videos are of the following songs, using clips from classic and/or 90's animation set to the music.

Cuz I'm A Blonde
Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women
Daffy's Rhapsody
Elvira (Elmyra Remix)
Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
God Bless the USA
Der Fuehrer's Face

I may have another one, or two, in the weeks to come.

Well, I got the hand of YouTube, so I put all 7 of my cartoon music videos up there for you to enjoy. Don't know how long they will last, as I have gotten auto e-mails on three of them maybe being copyrighted to someone.

So, in the meantime, check 'em out while you can. Here are the URL's...

Cuz I'm A Blonde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhOmzYvzv4

Ceegareets and Whuskey and Wild Wild Women
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgki6NfwVV8

Daffy's Rhapsody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSv2uf4o_tA

Elvira, Elmyra Remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52CnNhukqcY

Deulin' Banjos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tmhg_mvHHA

Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2PTsbOow3I

God Bless the USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJNKx6dDf_s

I hope you like them. :)

Well, if you've ever been to one of my Anthrocon TTA parties, you know I try to, among other things, make a new music video every year to show at the party, and then share it in the masquerade the following year.

Anyway, I finally, I think, learned how to post on You Tube, so if you wanna (again) see my fisrt such video, Cuz I'm A Blonde, all you have to do is look here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlhOmzYvzv4

Well, after not making it last year, I am going back to Anthrocon this year, and as is my custom, I am throwing a Tiny Toons party! There will be pizza, soda pop, and cartoons to enjoy. I have lost my traditional way to let certain folks know about it, so I am posting here. If you see this, and if you wanna come again, please, let me know! :)

All I'll say is that it's gonna be in the same building it was last time. That way, folks who've been there before know where to go. If you haven't been there before, but it sounds interesting, please send me a private message, and I'll let you know if there'll be enough room to accomodate any newcomers.

Sorry, but I gotta put that limit on for various reasons this year.