A Fall Of Ashes
A Fall of Ashes
Ashes, an ignorant peasant farm girl with no hope of a dowry, just wanted a husband. That made her an easy victim and easily tricked. There was no shortage of men and boys willing to trick, use and abuse her. Her only hope out of slavey is magic that she hadn’t even known she had. But evil and evil-doers hunt her at every turn. E book/ Kindle Unlimited Paperback Hard Cover Kindle…
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The Story Behind Kara. A World Building Info Dump.
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…
A Fall of Ashes Chapter 9, Now Available
The reward for Ashes is high, so is the fear of displeasing the mysterious Mistress Gru. Ashes’ best chance isn’t avoiding the searcher but being someone they would never suspect of being the young sorceress they seek. available on Kindle Vella and Patreon.
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Read Three Story for Free
I currently have up, or I am posting three different stories for you to read free of charge. These stories are on Patreon, Substack and Ream Stories free of charge, so use whichever you prefer. Patreon Substack Ream Stories The first story, I Took a Walk, is up all three places in its entirety. It is a short novella bordering on a short story. I broke it into twelve short episodes and…
Viking of Asgard Chapter 16: Three Barons, is now available
Viking of Asgard Chapter 16: Three Barons, is now available
As of September 17 and the publishing of chapter 16, there are now 44 thousand words of Vikings of Asgard available to read on Kindle Vella. Getting these chapters out to you is a long, hard process and I hope you like them. James R Steinhaus.
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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.
I Took a Walk: 4 Episodes Up
The fourth episode of my newest story I Took a Walk on Kindle Vella is now live. Join Jimmy as he finds out sometimes easy money isn’t so easy.
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Micro Fiction: They Call Me Doug
Mike, why do they call you Doug? I was in the army. What does that have to do with it? They used to call me General too, but Doug stuck when I got out. I didn’t know you were an officer. Wasn’t. Five stripes was the highest I got. How does that become Doug or General? Michal Christian Author. I still don’t get it. M. C. Author was on much of my stuff. What? MacArthur OK Doug
In the Service of Evil
On Wednesday, April 19, the final episode of A Fall of Ashes will be published on Kindle Vella and the frist three episodes of the next book will be published. Join Ashes in the second part of her story as she discovers that having killed, getting back to the grey path isn’t so easy.
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Opinion on the UN
The UN was an attempt to prevent the formation of alliances like NATO and the EU and other similar alliances. Their danger and how they lead to corruption and war has been known for along time. It has failed. If you want to fix the UN, make any country shipping arms without security council approval lose their seat. Make any country imposing sanction with out the general assemble authority lose their seat. That was what its function was suppose to be, but these and other groups by pass it. With out that power, it does lots of harm and little good. Fix it or dissolve it, as it make fighting and conflict more likely not less.
