Not really, but a book I wrote a year ago just came out so I get to invoice for my third tranch payment. Basically a month's worth of live-on money for a job that alreay paid for itself.
Nice.
635 Yesterday. Progress. Good.
Off to Gencon tomorrow. Lest time I went I got chased by geese, had a swordfight and came back with a new commission. It remains to be seen what'll happen this time.
Chapter 3 of the Tanks Book is done and in. About 6000 words of Chapter 4 to do.
http://www.selfprotectionservices.net/redman.wmv *5mb file
We tested the redman suit out last night. Some video....
Had some fun tonight testing out the Red Man suit. I got to kick Stu as hard as I could in the nuts.
Always good for a laugh...
600 what?
600 Calories. I'm trying to get my fitness back now that my knees are less crippled, and one of the benchmarks I use is to turn the elliptical trainer resistance right up and see how many calories I can put out in 30 minutes. Kind of a benchmark for the overall work rate and whatnot. The record as of Sunday is 600. Plan is to try this a couple of times a week and see if there's any improvement.
Overall my fitness has already gone from nothing to 'very poor', which I'm considering a massive improvement!
Elsewhere, I'm in the middle of Chapter 3-4 of the Tanks book, with a book on Land Warfare becoming urgent in the background. After that I've got a nearly-firm job for Mongoose Publishing and a possible novel on a rather unusual subject.
And we're trying to arrange the rest of my self-defence instructor qualifications for sometime in the next few weeks.
Busy....
Part of the 'Battles' series from Amber Books.
I contributed to several including Ancient, Medieval, American Civil War, The Crusades and Battles of the Bible.
Didn't mean to put this here.
Can't seem to delete it.
Okay: From top to bottom:
Me.
Me and Gavin at the hotel before Rachel & Nate's Wedding
The cover of the Self Defence Manual, which I wrote with Dave Birdsall.
I'm getting close to finishing the History of Tanks book. After that I have a History of Land Warfare to write for October. Just been approached for another project that will upset some people and please others.
Meantime I just qualified as a Street Weapons Defence instructor with the SDF, taking me to 'Advanced Instructor' level. Looks like I'll be doing a book on conflict management with my SDF regional boss, Stu. And maybe teaching some courses too. Stu is getting a Red Man suit and I'm one of the lucky people who gets to wear it & get beaten on by people on the courses.
Back to work now...
An experiment in video uploading...
