The Last Hurrah of Summer!

One. Last. Weekend.

Then school is back and then we have to wait for long weekends again. Then there's fall. And Christmas. Oh my yes, Christmas is coming.

But before we all start thinking about the holidays, let's enjoy that one final gasp of a great summer. And if you're looking for that last light, fun read before the end of the warm and wonderful then why not check out the superheros in Iowa. The Apathetic Avenger are good at getting out of the trouble that they somehow manage to always get into. And save the day, too. They're good like that.

They are also suitable for 13+ readers!

Just... don't drive the van into the river, m'kay?

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Amazon:  Welcome to Downing City

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Amazon: The Natural Order of Things

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I have a treat for you...

I think you'll all like it.

Simon and I have decided that selling each of the 3 original ebooks in print as individual paperbacks is silly. And downright expensive! For all 3 off them, you would end up shilling out about $24. Being starving artists ourselves, this does not sit well with us. At all.

So they are going into a single printed omnibus-- all three volumes in 1 printed book. This is ONLY for the print version, in case you don't have a Kindle, nook, Kobo, Applebooks... or you want an autograph which Simon and I will be happy to provide. 

Hopefully, The First Omnibus will be ready for purchase by the end of July. And without further ado--

Apathetic Avengers, Vol 1-3 print cover! 

Meanwhile, for all you eReader nuts--
ALL THREE VOLUMES are ~*~FREE ~*~ on Smashwords for the month of July! 

Free, you say?!

Yup. Just for the month of July, we're part of Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale.

What does that mean? The books are FREE at Smashwords.

But, Jenn, you're whining, I have a Kindle.

Be silent! They support EVERYTHING: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony Reader, Apple... Get the idea? This ONLY at Smashwords, and only for July.

Click here ~> Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale You should land right on the page! Scroll down, we're there!

 It will take you to the page to purchase, and then give you directions on how to get it.

FOR FREE.

All three of them.

Only at Smashwords. 

You are required to enjoy these! 

If the link doesn't land you there, follow the same path:
Smashwords~> Summer/Winter Sale~> Fiction ~> Graphic Novels&Comic~> and choose the first "Superheroes" subcatagory.

Further Adventures!

Well, Simon and I are hopefully gearing up to get you another 3 volumes of Faction's Adventures soon! We have most of them written and we're just polishing off a last few of the stories. 

Good news for everyone who's old fashioned: we've decided that the prints of all three original volumes, Apathetic Avengers, Welcome to Downing City and The Natural Order of Things will be combined into a single volume! More bang for your buck, y'all! ...No, seriously. Those little prints are beaucoup bucks. So hold off, and give us a few to gather our wits on that one.

Meanwhile, Here's a little teaser from "Masked Accountant" in the currently-untitled Volume 6. 

Enjoy! 

“My other departments are knee-deep in utter disorganization. Requisition a locking filing cabinet for your headquarters and make sure that everyone put their documentation in it.” Lassard tapped the plastic report sheet on top of the papers. “I had originally planned to just show you what goes into funding and supporting you by showing you the numbers and organization that is required on this end. In essence, the work had been done already. But this… with the report and the itemization...  Well. With this, I should be able to requisition just about everything you need for the coming fiscal year. Including a funding increase for your team.”

“Really?” Rachel asked.

“You are not getting the megazord, Agent Hingis,” he said. “But I think I can get you the money for a new roof for your headquarters.”

Rachel slumped. “I’d rather the megazord.” 

Enjoy some Summer Reading!

Apathetic Avengers, Excerpt

Here's something to whet your whistle whilst you pick the sand out of your crevasses at the beach. Rachel WON'T be joining. She doesn't do beaches.

She grabbed the hand-out with the experiment on it and put it front of her. Edgar flopped a pair of gloves of the desk next to her as he pulled his on. She looked at them, and rolled her eyes. She picked them up and considered putting them on, but started reading the experiment to Edgar. “We need 3 ounces of the perchloric acid. For God sake be careful with that crap.”

“I know,” Edgar said. “Put your gloves on.” He put the beaker on the table and poured the 3 ounces of the acid into it. He put the plastic back over the top of the huge Erlenmeyer flask and passed it to the next table who was gesturing for it. He picked up the beaker—

The perchloric acid came sloshing out when Bobby slammed into him, on purpose. It sloshed out, splashed onto the table, onto the experiment paper, on Edgar’s hand and onto Celeste’s pants. She grabbed the beaker and pulled it out of Edgar’s hand and pushed his hands away. She picked up the paper and tossed the acid into the sink.

“BOBBY!” she yelled. “What the hell is wrong with you!”

“Oh, did geeky drop the acid?” Bobby said.

“You made him spill it all over the place!” she screamed. “On my new pants!” She pointed to the obvious stain. “What’s wrong with you? God, you’re such a jerk.” She shoved Edgar’s hand under the faucet built into the lab table and turned on the water.

Bobby smirked. “Sorry about the pants, Cel, but that was funny.”

“Funny?” Celeste said. “This stuff dissolves metal, you jackass.” She held up the lab sheet which now had a hole in it. “Ugh, go away. Just go away.” She put her hand in the air, “Mister Kelsner, this is stupid. This stuff is dangerous. We should be doing this under a hood.”

“Your opinion is not warranted, Saint Cloud,” he answered, not even looking over.

“Asshole,” she mumbled. She realized that Edgar was staring at her, shocked. “What’s your problem, Hammerhead?”

“Perchloric acid makes organic materials combust,” he whispered, looking at his hand. “And it should have burned my skin, badly.”

“Diluted,” she said.

“No, it said right on the bottle, ‘anhydrous perchloric acid, non-dilute solution. Danger, keep covered’,” Edgar said.

Celeste leaned in very close to him. “It. Was. Diluted,” she said, stressing each word. “And if you say anything that might imply otherwise, you’re going to regret it.” She put her hand back in the air. “Mister Kelsner, we need a new lab sheet.”

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Summer Reading

Summer reading season is fast approaching-- and we all like a little brainless time-suck once in a while when we're at the beach or the park. So to that end, allow me to offer up the Faction Stories-- 3 volumes of stories about teenage superheroes in Iowa.

Yeah, you read that right.

How could this better? What if they were FREE?!?!

Just for July we're participating in Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale-- and they're all free! 

FREE FREE FREE: Here--> Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale

Now read these and find out!

 Vol 1: 

The only thing Rachel Hingis hated more than swimming was having to play well with others. Edgar Fern, nerd extraordinaire, couldn't find anyone to play with. Life would have been just fine if they never crossed paths.

Instead, they collided.

The victims of an accidental experiment deep in the corn fields of Iowa, they and four others -Alex, Celeste, Laura and Susan – were changed, and not necessarily for the better. As a mysterious group (insert sinister title here) starts to pick off Red Bug’s students, they have a choice to make: become victims, or become heroes.

The bumpy road to being a masked avenger is fraught with conflict, mystery, explosions-- and Freezees.

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 Vol 2:

Being a teenager is hard enough without putting on a mask and making mortal enemies.  But when you have both, and a part time job, things are little more complicated.

Edgar, Rachel, Alex, Celeste, Laura and Susan joined forces to save the their classmates at Red Bug Regional High School from a sinister group that was picking the students off one at a time. The team worked a little better than they had expected and now, they’re stuck… as the Apathetic Avengers.

With the FBI as their secret backers, they begin to discover that Red Bug, Downing City and Freemont County,  Iowa, is not nearly as innocent and naïve as they thought. And they weren't the only ones who shouldn't have been in the playground…

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Vol 3:

At some point, black and white starts to run to gray…

Rachel Rae Hingis wants to save the whole world, starting with a tiny corner of Iowa where corruption and Accidentals run rampant.

Edgar Fern wants to save the world, too, if he could just get Rachel to listen to him once in a while. Instead, he spends most of his masked avenger time saving her butt or getting her out of trouble.

Rachel’s stubborn refusal to stick to the rules is becoming a liability, though, as she starts to become more vigilante than avenger. Edgar unwavering adherence to the law puts him in direct odds with Rachel’s noble if misguided mission. And when a little girl named Ginger becomes a victim of ISTH’s greed and corruption they find themselves fighting each other instead of the bad guys. 

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And coming soon-- Vols 4, 5 and 6! The continuing misadventures of the reluctant heroes... 

Who wants a WIP teaser?!

I know you do!  So here you go. 
From the Volume 4 story, "Better Living Through Chemistry, Part II"

“Rachel, I made my choice,” Alex said, apparently choosing to ignore her quip. “You guys did fine the other night. No one was killed. You don't need me. I just want to be normal for a little while.” He started coughing, and Rachel waited for him to finish.

“Please,” Rachel said. “You’re anything but normal. You are exceptional and--”

He started coughing again, even harder. He was clearly unable to stop it. Alex was gasping for breath and wound up sagging against the wall desperate for air at the end of two minutes he was hacking and generally breathing.

“What was that?” Rachel asked, standing up straight, her mental alarms going haywire.

“Coughing fit,” he said.

“You’ve never had those,” she said, stepping closer.

He whipped his head up to look at her. “Don’t you go getting all Florence Nightingale on me, Rachel Rae Hingis. Who the hell knows why I’m coughing. My body is adjusting to not having the red shit to deal with. It could have been dust. Just back off, and don’t you and the rest of the Musketeers worry about me.”

Rachel stared at him, shocked. “Well. Ok. I get it. Have a nice life, Pansy.” She turned on her heel and marched down the hall toward her next class.

“Rachel, wait,” Alex called.

She turned and looked at him. “Nope. You’ve made your position clear. Bye, Alexander.” She slammed through the door of the hallway into the next area of the school. She made it about twenty feet before her resolve completely gave out and she had to lean against the lockers before she fell over. She felt tired; Alex was changing, and not in the way she liked. She glanced back and sighed. If that’s what being normal does to you, I’ll stay a freak.

She heard him cough, and stifled the urge to walk back and see if he was OK. He’d made it clear he didn’t want her help. Or any of their help. She stared straight ahead and forced one foot in front of the other. She just kept forcing them in front of each other on her way to Neiman’s class. She couldn’t quite get the coughing from behind her out of her head. It wasn’t stopping.

There was a tremendous bang behind her, and she spun, the masked avenger leaping to the front of her brain. She saw Alex as he crashed through the door in what seemed like slow motion. He was coughing, but it was slowly turning into a choke. She could see the whites of his eyes from where she was and as she watched, they rolled back into his head. He crashed to the floor before she could react fast enough to do anything for him.

“Holy hell, Alex!” she screamed, running back to him. She skidded along the floor and yanked his head off the floor and into her lap. He was desperately trying to breath, but she could hear the crackle and panting that went with the horrible shallow breaths he was taking. She yanked her phone out and dialed 911 and didn’t miss the irony in that. 

*Sniff sniff*... is that another Teaser?

Why, yes, yes it is. I'm evil. 

“You followed me.”

The words were quickly followed by books slamming on the table next to him. Edgar looked up and could see the fury in Rachel’s eyes. She yanked the chair out from the table and slammed herself into it, staring at him the whole time. “Well?”

“What?” Edgar finally asked.

She stuck her finger in his face. “You followed me, E-force,” she hissed. “Last night in East Downing. You called the cops.”

He took a bite of his sandwich. “I did. And I followed you the night before too.”

“This has nothing to do with you,” Rachel said.

“You’re in deep, Rachel,” Edgar said.

“Do not follow me, Ferngully,” she said, angrily.

He put his sandwich down and turned and looked at her. “If I hadn’t,” he said, “they never would have found the body.”

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The Natural Order of Things

Ladies and Gents! 

We'd like to present the third book in our first set of volumes, available NOW! 

At some point, black and white starts to run to gray…

 Rachel Rae Hingis wants to save the whole world, starting with a tiny corner of Iowa where corruption and Accidentals run rampant.

 Edgar Fern wants to save the world, too, if he could just get Rachel to listen to him once in a while. Instead, he spends most of his masked avenger time saving her butt or getting her out of trouble.

 Rachel’s stubborn refusal to stick to the rules is becoming a liability, though, as she starts to become more vigilante than avenger. Edgar unwavering adherence to the law puts him in direct odds with Rachel’s noble if misguided mission. And when a little girl named Ginger becomes a victim of ISTH’s greed and corruption they find themselves fighting each other instead of the bad guys. 

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And with this, we've completed our Year One, Part One Trilogy. We hope you enjoy the ride, and that you'll come back around for more adventures, just in time for summer vacation! We'll keep you posted and we'll keep posting to let you know what's up.

Read! Enjoy! Review! 

Please Stand By...

Volume 3 is on deck! Keep your eyes open!

Those angels you heard earlier-- that was because I finally finished editing. Sorry if they woke the baby; it was necessary.


Coming Soon!

Slow and Steady...

I'm impatient. But I understand things take time. So for those of you interested, and have had some patience with us-- we bring you:

Apathetic Avengers, on Amazon

BN.com is coming, slowly. It takes a LOT longer to get through those distribution channels. But it's there, and it's also still available through the CreateSpace page as well.

As an FYI-- this will be the only single volume in print. From now on, if you're buying print, you'll be getting no less than 3 volumes (about 350 pages) per book.  Doing this print stuff is very labor intensive - and I used to do layout for a living, so consider that statement-  and I can't do it for each of these. Just the covers are a lot of work.

The novelty of having our name on an actual book was just too much to wait for my slow-a$$ editing. Next time: patience is the key.

And as Simon just asked me, "Did you buy the copies yet?"

No. I had to pay the power bill.


----For you less traditional types---

Apathetic Avengers, Faction Vol 1, ebook:

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Welcome To Downing City, Faction Vol 2, ebook:

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Welcome to Teaser City!

It's time to tease you again. Cause we're sadistic that way, and you just keep coming back, don't you? 

“I don’t care if it looks like the service road to Mordor. Free food is free food.” Rachel bravely went straight for the red door and stepped through.

When she didn’t come out screaming right away, the rest of the group joined her.

So this is how Luke felt in the cantina. Edgar thought it so loudly he may as well have said it aloud. He studied a long row of booths occupied by scattered men and women, each looking rougher than the next. At the far end of the dining area was one oversized booth where Rachel was standing and trying to talk to someone they couldn’t see.

Rachel waved them over and took a seat next to a middle aged man wearing a respectable suit and carefully looking over a menu which simply said Menu on its cover. “I figured he had to be Lassard,” Rachel said, a little too loudly. “No one else was wearing a tie. Or sleeves for that matter.” She felt the disapproving stares from the rest of the team now seated. “I also asked to see identification. Ladies and jerks, please meet Assistant Director Lassard.”

“AD Lassard, I’d like to welcome you on our behalf. My name is…” Edgar was suddenly cut off.

A gruff, booming voice that strangely didn’t rise above a low conversational tone stated, “I know who you are. I know who all of you are. I read your files. Take a menu and pick anything you want as long as it’s under ten dollars. After you order you will be briefed.”

“Briefed? I thought this was a meet and greet,” Alex said.

“What this is,” Lassard said, the last word in air quotes, “is an evaluation. You are my assets now and I need to see how you work.”

He was interrupted by the waitress, whose name tag read Waitress, to take everyone’s order. Lassard ordered a steak with baked potato and broccoli. After the waitress left, he continued before anyone else had a chance to start talking.

“I’m going to save all us some time.” He took a sip of his coffee, cleared his throat and adjusted his tone. “Whatever you think you’ve learned you’d better be ready to forget immediately. I am trying to give you the benefit of the doubt because you’ve already saved some lives and the Bureau is grateful for that. In the long run, however, that doesn’t mean a whole lot. You are agents. If you can’t be counted on to perform continually at a high level of efficiency then you are useless to me.”

Wait. Who's Lassard? 

I guess you'll have to read and find out! 

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You don't have an ereader?!

Fun fact: ?! combo is called an interobang! Go ahead. Say it. Interobang! It's fun. 

Ok so, lemme tell you, I love my ebook. I don't know how we survived without them in my house. I'm married to another Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and there are ten boxes of books in the basement that we can't even think about putting on display. We had to pick and choose what we were going to put on our five books cases in the house.

I understand some people don't like them. Recently, someone returned one after honestly giving it a try and finding that they weren't reading at all because of it. Legit. But don't dis the ebook until you've taken one out for a ride. It's freed up so much room in the house for us.

My credit card, on the other hand... room seems to be shrinking...

Anyway, where was I? Oh, right. Ebooks, and you not owning one.

Well, that's OK. Because there's another awesome new technology out there, called PoD. Print on Demand.

That's right, ladies and germs, we're up on a PoD. It's set to roll and ready to read upon delivery to your front door. It will take about 6 weeks for it to be available through a few different channels from Amazon, but you can check it out on CreateSpace  right now.

Please understand the cost of printing is far greater than an ebook distribution, but we did our best to keep the price down on the print. If you really want to find out what the Apathetic Avengers are all about, check it out - in real print with real ink and paper!

And a really big migraine from getting the whole cover to line up...

Apathetic Avengers: The Faction Stories Vol 1 - in print!

Welcome to Volume 2!

Ladies and Gentlemen, presenting Volume 2! 

Being a teenager is hard enough without putting on a mask and making mortal enemies. But when you have both, and a part time job, things are little more complicated.

Edgar, Rachel, Alex, Celeste, Laura and Susan joined forces to save the their classmates at Red Bug Regional High School from a sinister group that was picking the students off one at a time. The team worked a little better than they had expected and now, they’re stuck… as the Apathetic Avengers.

With the FBI as their secret backers, they begin to discover that Red Bug, Downing City and Freemont County, Iowa, is not nearly as innocent and naïve as they thought. And they weren't the only ones who shouldn't have been in the playground… 

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ENJOY! 

Review This!

There is only one thing that helps a book move along in its shelf life and that is THE REVIEW. 

We need your help.

We have a marvelous review on Amazon, and a nice one BN-- thank you both -- but we need more. We understand that this may not be your kind of story; totally cool. But we would love you forever if you could review the book, or at the very least, give us a star rating. 

A review gives a quick rundown on our style, our characterization, our story arc. We're not asking you to be lit majors on this- did we manage to keep Rachel 'rachel-like' all the way through the story. Do our characters grow and change? Do the various parts of the story come to a logical conclusion, or follow a logical thought. 

If you choose to only rate us on the star system-- please judge us by our writing and not our story. 

What the heck do I mean? Well, here's an example. I absolutely hate the movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". I don't enjoy the story, I don't like the story arc. I don't like the graphic nature of some of things that go on. Just not my bag, man. But. If you ask me to judge the film for more than its story- the fine points of movie making -- it's a good movie. Nice cinematography, good acting, story arc follows itself. Consistency of characters. Soundtrack. All are good. If I were to rate the movie on those alone, I would give it 3.5/5. It's not ground breaking, but it's not like I'm trying to watch "2-Headed Shark Attack". 

We appreciate honesty: if you we shouldn't give up our day jobs, tell us. 

Pop over. 

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Spoiler: We have a TREAT for you coming soon. Like within 24 hours soon! Get ready!

See? We love you. 

Unmasking the Master

Edgar inspired me to write this. He is not a nerd by chance. He was crafted that way by careful choice. And he's backed up by our own Nerdy Tendencies. Simon has a weird love for Pokemon (and lentils) and I have a deep, timeless love for Star Wars.

Unrequited, really. Judging by my six fan-fiction books that will never see the light of a saber.

I am disturbed by something I read today about my beloved. Above and beyond me not liking the idea of a stand-alone Star Wars, and that is what they are saying, I am disheartened by the choice of focus for the movie: Yoda.

I can't tell you how little interest I have for Yoda. He's 900 years old in RotJ and he plays the wise old sage in the 6 movies. Everything I need to know or care to know about him is in there. I don't want a whole 2+ hours on him! If you focus on him, you will remove the mystery of the master.

One should never want to see beyond what the master presents you.

A master is someone who has gone through their own trials and tribulations and you shouldn't wish to see those. Once you see the blood on their hands, their mystique is gone, and so is some of the relevance of the wisdom imparted. 

You will, for example, never know more than what's relevant to the story with Catton or Lassard. (Ooh, is that a spoiler?) There is much much more to them, as Simon says (ha!), that goes on "between the panels". We have extensive information on both of them that you, the reader, and our heroes will never find out. But it shapes their responses and actions and words.

Trust me when I say, you don't want to see this stuff. Someone doesn't get to be a "master" by never hurting anyone, never screwing up, never being the fall guy or the sucker. When a Master is present in the story, it is not their past that is important but their present. If you unmask the master, you unravel the mythos. 

Do you really want to know about the people that Yoda has killed? Even though he carries the green saber, it's still a killing weapon. Do you really want to see him rushing in where he had warned Luke not to? Do you want to see all the blood on Catton's hands? Or all the bodies behind them?

What would you do if you found out that Catton wasn't the 'master' he had led you to believe? 

Luke finds out that Ben Kenobi isn't the person he thought he was. (And Luke, being the whiny douchecanoe that he is eventually names his son Ben, in what is clearly a chance for him to recreate his own Master in the unscared image he originally had). It does alter his view of him, no matter what you saw on the screen: Luke spends most of The Truce at Bakura wondering if Ben was really worthy of being a master. Because of that, Luke nearly turns to the Dark Side not once, not twice, but THREE times.

Unmasking the master introduced doubts into the lessons that were more valuable than the history of the teacher would allow them to be. Hence why the history of the master should be masked. 

I use this very device to get one of my future characters in very.hot.water. Her master revealed more than he should have and introduced the subconscious doubts that undo her training for just long enough for the bad guy to catch her. 

So, I don't want to know more about Yoda. His students have enough flaws that they can find their own trouble without knowing about his problems from his past. You're taking away some of the mythos that makes the character so interesting by delving into his origin. We're not supposed to know.

And after Jar Jar Binks, I think that perhaps moving forward would be a good idea. 

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This Post is Total Filler...

But yes, I've run out of time to really give you a blog here. So, instead, I'm giving you a weird regional food. 

Y'gotta love Philly. Right? 

Right?! 















Chocolates by Mueller offers these as a gag/spoof/weird holder over tradition of some sort at the Reading Terminal. If you're ever in Philadelphia, you must make Reading Terminal Market a stop on your tours. It's plain nuts in there. And there's some really amazing food to boot. 

Meanwhile, I'm editing my heart out and with any luck, y'all will have the second book THIS WEEK. *Mwah* 

...oops. A little bit of my Southern showing there. Lemme just tuck that back in~~ 

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Moving Right Along--

Very soon, my dear loyal followers, you'll start getting barraged by a whole NEW Volume of the Apathetic Avengers! 

We're on the fine editing portion and I'm gonna make sure that you can stop hearing about Volume 1, and start getting bombarded by Volume 2: Welcome to Downing City. 

The Apathetic Avengers are starting to figure out their team dynamic-- as well meeting some of the Big Bad Villains that rule in Downing City. 

... and then there's junior year. 

Keep your eyes peeled! We're talking short time here! Meanwhile-- 

Ah. You know the drill: 

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Editing Gets Furry Around Here...

So it's editing time. Damn the Topedoes, full speed ahea-- Oh.

Seems like someone decided it was time to get in my way. She's done this a few times, but usually when I was on the floor or on the bed, editing. This time, she climbed right up on the couch and got in my way.  

So, anyway. We're on our way with the new one. Success includes 47 out of 114 pages of hand edited page inputted (? is that even a word?) into the digital world. We're still finding our editing rhythm, but I think that we might have an idea of what needs to happen. 

"Welcome to Downing City" Faction Volume 2 is coming!!  Soon!

And with luck on your side, "The Natural Order of Things" Faction Vol 3 will be hot on it's tail. 

Ooh, how about WIP line, my treat? From "Bus", in Volume 2. I'm such a tease! 

“Don’t be so negative, Rowan,” Susan said.

“I don’t know if you noticed, but someone was just killed, stuffed with explosive and blown up,” Rachel said, not breaking her stride. “I think it’s OK if I say that we’re not on the upside of this fight.” 

Meanwhile, check out the Volume 1, where it all starts: 

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