Good afternoon,

First of all, congratulations to Jim Cebulka, whose name will be Tuckerized in a Murderbugs anthology story. Thank you to everyone who entered the drawing. We’ll have more opportunities going forward.

For the first ten days in June, I discovered that without necessarily planning to, I’ve been averaging just under 2,000 words a day of new fiction content—not counting things like newsletters, content for WonderBird Press, and non-fiction writing along the way. So why not officially say I’m doing JuNoWriMo, which is pretty much the same as NaNoWriMo but less well known and in June rather than November. Currently, those words are split between three different novella-or-longer projects that are progressing concurrently, one of which is THIS FINE CREW volume 5. The other two are in the to-be-announced category.

I’ll do my best to keep up with the 2K per day rate, at least until AwesomeCon DC, this coming Friday through Sunday. This will be my first time vending at AwesomeCon; if you’re attending, I look forward to seeing you at my table in the Artist’s Alley section of the convention. I will have the THIS FINE CREW series, along with the recently released WE DARE 5, DEFENDERS RISE, MURDERBIRDS, and HIDDEN VILLAINS.

You can check out the event here: https://awesome-con.com/badges/

I might get a few more words jotted down during this event, but more likely, I’ll let those be my mid-month days off before resuming the Monday after—and onward through the 30th.

Also Coming this Friday, June 16…

If you enjoyed DEFENDERS RISE and would like more antics from your favorite uplift aliens in the Four Horsemen Universe, check out “OpSha Ops” in THE PHOENIX INITIATIVE: FIRST MISSIONS.

One Song More, before I go

If you’ve heard some of my musical musings before, this one probably won’t be a surprise. If you’re just joining this side of the programming, all you really need to know is that I am a musical theatre person and Les Mis superfan who occasionally enjoys writing and recording parodies.

Without any further ado, I give you “One Drink More” a parody inspired by “One Day More”: https://youtu.be/fkhZGBO3INk

I hope the summer weather is treating you well and the smoke hasn’t been too bad.

As always, happy reading!

Mike Jack Stoumbos