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A Fall of Ashes: Chapter IV, Demon Ring; now available

chapter IV My next installment of my Dark Fantasy story, A Fall of Ashes, is now up on both Kindle Vella and Patron. Just when Ashes is resigning herself to the fact that she is going to be a slave for the rest of her life, she finds a ring that changes everything. A fall of Ashes is a Dark Fantasy, deals violence, rape, and other objectionable things. It is a villain origin story set in the…

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A Fall of Ashes; Chapter IV, Demon Ring, Now Available

Black magic. A bewitching dark witch woman in a red cape with a hood conjures with a crystal ball in her hands and looks away unkindly. Magic tales. Halloween. Copy space. My next installment of my Dark Fantasy story, A Fall of Ashes, is now up on both Kindle Vella and Patron. Just when Ashes is resigning herself to the fact that she is going to be a slave for the rest of her life, she finds a…

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Donald of Mars Chapter 3 Now Live

Not only will exercise be a critical factor in doing well in a Mars colony, but so will excellently eating habits. Donald avoids company meals and has his meals and a small family run eatery run by people that understand just how important good nutritious food is in the low g environment of Mars. Patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/donald-of-mars-3-77991644 Kindle Vella

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What I Am Up To

I have three stories that I am putting out in episode form; two science fiction, Vikings of Asgard, and Donald of Mar; and one dark fantasy, A Fall of Ashes. I am making all three available on Kindle Vella, and on Patreon for those outside the United States or that prefer Patreon over Kindle Vella. Vikings of Asgard Vikings of Asgard I started on Kindle Vella over a year ago and have been…

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Viking Of Asgard Chapter 20 now available.

Bob’s people decide that their first raid deserves a party. But what is a party without politics? Also available on Patron. https://www.patreon.com/posts/vikings-of-20-77564533

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A Fall of Ashes: First three chapters now up.

Chapter three. Read them for free on Kindle Vella or Patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/fall-of-ashes-01-77075289

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Three stories now available on Kindle Vella

Three stories now available on Kindle Vella

I have started three stories on Kindle Vella, two science fiction, and one fantasy. The first, Viking of Asgard, I drafted over two years ago. I began my rewriting this one over a year ago, having each chapter professionally edited and then publishing it on Vella. Now it has twenty chapters published and I will continue to add to this as a rewrite once chapters get professionally edited. It is…

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A Fall of Ashes now available on Patron

A Fall of Ashes now available on Patron

https://www.patreon.com/posts/77075289?pr=true. Ashes Didn’t want to study magic, she just wanted a husband. But because of a mistake, she can either study magic under an unpleasant old woman, or become a tavern slave. But that mistake will continue to haunt her. https://www.patreon.com/posts/77075289?pr=true It will be published on Patreon as I get each chapter rewritten. (Caution: Has…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. With the New Year I have added a new project, Donald Of Mars to my on-going story Viking of Asgard I started last year. I have in the past done quite a few blogs on many of the challenges of colonizing mars on the site Eptle.WordPress.com. In this new project, I am having my protagonist Donald overcome and deal with many of these things as a way of making them clear to…

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Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available

Viking of Asgard: Episode 19 Red Mountain now available

Join Don as he joins the caravan climbing Red Mountain to inspect the barony King Peter granted him.

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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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Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!

Spoiler: King Peter is an Avatar!

Some of my test readers of Vikings of Asgard have asked me about the character King Peter. Here is a partial spoiler; He is an Avatar. But unlike the movie Avatar, anyone that sits in the operator chair can operate him and when no one is in it, the AI runs him. Junior researchers mostly operate him. Asgard is their experiment. One of thousands, in fact. They have as little regard for the people…

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Viking of Asgard Chapter 12 now available

Viking of Asgard Chapter 12 now available

The people, the smells, and the sound of a city in India from more than three thousand years ago drive home to Don just how different the past was. Even so, he savors this last chance to explore a maker he will never again have a chance to visit Click here for Patreon for those outside the United States https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6

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Vikings of Asgard: Chapter 11, The Prince, Now Available

Vikings of Asgard: Chapter 11, The Prince, Now Available

Bob has made his living his whole life supplying the rich and powerful with the illegal or hard to get. None could be as openly cruel and abusive as those noblemen of the past. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6 It is also available on patreon for those living outside the United States. https://www.patreon.com/posts/vikings-of-11-66610646

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Ten Chapters of Vikings of Asgard are now available

Ten Chapters of Vikings of Asgard are now available

https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09Q1LN2B6 Vikings of Asgard just released its tenth chapter on Kindle Vella. Keep up with Don and Bob continuing adventures as both find out things, gain, power, wealth and problems they never dreamed of. Also available on Patreon for those on Patreon.

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Vikings of Asgard Chapter 9 now available.

A new chapter of Vikings of Asgard is now live. When King Peter brings both groups to Asgard they don’t get along. Yet what he is offering may distract them from that, for now. Read all about the adventures these two groups have, stealing from, and trading with, past civilizations. Vella Patron

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