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Happy New Year!

Hope 2025 is a healthy and prosperous year for all!
Dear Randall, 
That is terrific news. I’m so happy for you and wishing you more of the same in 2026.

Just some info I received this week regarding two of my published novels.

Ultimate Escalation was selected as the bronze medalist in suspense-political for the 2024 Global Thrillers Awards.

Frozen Conquest was selected as the finalist (4th place) in action-adventure for the 2024 Global Thrillers Awards.

Frozen Conquest has moved from the slush pile to the long list for the 2024 Chanticleer International Books Awards (Global Thrillers). The short list should be revealed some time in late January.

Best regards to all, Randall

Hi there!

I’m not going to renew my membership. Not that it matters, but I thought I’d share my observations and reasons for not renewing.

This site has changed, it seems, in terms of its members (since 20 years ago). Some of the best stuff I’ve ever read have come from this site, and, depending on your tastes, still comes from this site.

I find the variety of genres has shifted more towards sci-technical, modern tactical battles, military, plenty of horror, with a smattering of very good self-improvement ideas. There’s still memoirs, that’s good. Best one I ever read was on this site (I miss you, Gina).

Less are the whimsical fantasy books. I’ve found a few and was pleased to read them all the way through and left my comments. It didn’t matter to me that the authors hadn’t been active in years and never responded, I didn’t expect them to, I simply enjoyed the reads.

In addition, many books here are in progress. It’s difficult for me to wait a long time between chapters of several books at once to remember details and to better judge the pace of the story. I feel it’s a disservice to reviewing — in my case, at least.

That said, I’ve done a fair amount of reviewing since I returned — thoughtful ones. Not as many reciprocations as I hoped, but that can be due to the simple fact that I’m not a preferred genre (either memoir or fantasy). Not all the genres mentioned above are my preferred taste in reading, so I get that.

I learned something this time around. A reviewer who starts reading your book on Chapter 45 can have viable advice, grammatically speaking, and supportive comments about your style (or not), but the meat of the book, the story and flow itself, is left untouched.

Bottom line: Not getting much feedback here with my stuff. Not to say that I won’t be back with the next book I write, but for now at least, I’ll bow out from the current selection of reading material when my subscription runs out on the 19th.

Y’all keep writing(comma) and edit, edit, edit, edit.

whatta

P.S.: If Sol ups the prize money for contests it might attract new subscribers. A thousand bucks would be nice. Five hundred for second.

Where is everyone?
I've posted my entire book Redemption and only a few have actually taken the time to read any of it.
I've been writing, posting, reading, and reviewing like a madman these past few weeks I was sick with nothing to do.
I posted a presidential debate between Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers that is moderated by Greg Gutfeld and the Five.
I even started and finished a short book based on Nimrod: The Mighty Hunter in the Bible.
Is everyone else sick? LOL