Oh and for the comments on the “Wedding”, I agree with you 100%, I got a day off work for it but the catchups going to be a pain as we had a bank holiday monday as well following that wedding weekend (for Mayday) so we didnt lose 1 day, but 2.

Be Lucky

Nosha

On the positive side, I really don’t think the 3rd book was the last in the series, there is a TON more meat on these bones for that.

Hmm…. would the long form of that be, ‘Great flaming Ghostcrawler balls!’ by any chance?

Now I have a new author that I just HAVE to get everything by, Amazon delivered “Live Free o Die” yesterday morning, 2am today I put it down… finished…. and immediately on the PC looking for a copy of citadel. It happened with Terry Pratchett, it happened with Robert Jordan and Harry Turtledove, it even happened with Tully Zetford and Doc Smith so now I am going to have to find more space on the shelf for another authors collection. I’d curse you roundly if I didnt love it so much :).

Seriously though, thanks Bear, a damn good reccomendation with a damn good result, love it.

Nosha

I JUST finished The Hot Gate through webscription this morning. I stayed up all night reading it on my smartphone. That was a techgeek first for me, by the way; with a book on the smartphone, the screen is as bright as a flashlight. I have it set to sepia background, so it’s not harsh white, but I saw no reason to have any lights on to bother Cassie, so I sat reading a book in absolute darkness, relieved only by the light of the book.

If I needed to get up and move around, I was guided by the light shining from my book. I almost got the giggles thinking about how you could describe that to someone from ancient times in ye old time travel misinterpret things scenario, eh?

Now I have to go back and get Hot Gate.

Have you tried Travis S. Taylors own books, Warp Speed, Quantum Connection and Human by Choice. Good ones also.

btw, that web comic has a ipad and ihpone app, lets you get all of his comic from first to current.

However, we did have occassion to talk about a project I cannot discuss a while back, and he did mention to me that at some point I’d show up somewhere… most likely as a hideous corpse.

I was pretty sure he meant in a book, but you never can tell. :)

Not on your bookshelf yet, as far as I know it’s still waiting for May 3rd, but if you just can’t wait, you can go directly to Baen Books, and purchase it through their webscriptions. They have it in every ebook format I know of.

I bought it for my Android with the Kindle app on it, and it’s great. :)

I’ll hazard a guess as to why you’re in the series. I went with my friend to a John Ringo book signing in the Bay Area, and was able to chat with him a little bit. I doubt I made much of an impression, but the way you write in your blog shows you’re a funny, likeable guy, with a ton of amazing stories.

I’d guess you had him sign some of your books, got to swapping stories, and he remembered your name and put you in his book.

Now if a Big Bear Butt could only appear in a Discworld novel…….