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Quick November Update

Greetings, Loyal Readers!

Obviously, I’m not spending much time blogging, but I want to check in and update you on what I’ve been up to.

  • I’m still writing Boltblaster the Jason Cosmo prequel/spin-off about the early years of the wizard Mercury Boltblaster. I’ve long since given up announcing finish dates for this book, but I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so far.
  • My Thursday Things free weekly newsletter continues to delight scores of subscribers. Thursday Things is a weekly grab bag of interesting items I find online and off – with a bias toward the positive, inspiring, quirky, cool, and thought-provoking. (And no politics, except dog mayors. Because everyone loves dog mayors!) I’ve been writing a new edition every week for a little over a year now. Take a look at all past editions at the link — and sign up to get the next issue of Thursday Things delivered to your in-box.
  • I also have a couple of books in slow motion progress at Wattpad. These are stories I add a chapter to from time to time, usually when I’m stuck on my official current project, but still want to get some writing done, or when inspiration strikes. So fair warning — neither story is complete, nor is there any deadline for when they will be. That said, this week I added two new chapters to Losing Charity.
    • Losing Charity – a paranormal chick-lit comedy. Charity has a date from hell, gets stuck with a guardian devil she didn’t want, and her life goes off the rails from there.
    • Saving Max – Max is not having much better luck than Charity. Worse, really. He’s having a very strange week, involving a mysterious cat, disturbing dreams, awkward encounters with the opposite sex, wild dogs, and a sinister stranger. Among other things.
  • I’ve got a few other projects bubbling along, but I’ll save discussing those for next time!

As always, thanks for reading!

Dan McGirt

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Back again!

Welcome back, Loyal Readers! This site got knocked down by egregious hackers in 2018. I only recently located a good backup file that enabled me to restore it in a marathon IT session last night. I’ll spare you the gory details, but diving under the hood of your WordPress site is a good way to occupy yourself during this time of viruses and social distancing.

Another good socially isolated activity is writing! I’ll update you soon on what I’m working on now. The last couple of years have not gone exactly as planned, in a many ways. I think getting this site back online is, for me, in some way symbolic of getting myself back in the saddle, back to business, returning to regular order, take your pick of cliches.

For now, let me tell you about Thursday Things, my free weekly newsletter that goes out on — you guessed it! — Thursdays. It is a sample of typically five or six interesting items I’ve come across online and elsewhere. I try to keep it positive, uplifting, or at least weird or intriguing. At the link you can read every issue since I started Thursday Things last October. There you can also sign up to get Thursday Things delivered to your inbox each week. I hope you will!

It’s good to be back, Loyal Readers! I’ll see you again soon.

Dan McGirt