Newsletter 07/26/26

          I want to start with SpaceX - I don't know if you saw the flight of Starship 13, but it was amazing. I'm talking Buck Rogers amazing. The launch was delayed more than a week because several motors didn't fire because of ice in the fuel turbopumps… in South Texas… in July. Someone needs to have a talk with Elon, because ice does not occur in nature in South Texas in July. Regardless, it launched beautifully and the video was amazing. The videos looking back down the length of the rocket (missile actually) as it took off was dizzying. You could see the clouds of steam from the flame diverters from miles up in the air. Sadly the booster was traveling far to fast when it returned because several engines didn't light (that imaginary ice again?) but Ship 40 was incredible. The Pez dispenser was incredible and it spewed out satellites with floodlights so you could inspect the ship's heat shield. Then landing without burning up or blowing up was fantastic. That's the kind of thing that spawned Captain Scarlett. (Hint hint)

                 Gods Save the Queen Book 5 Part 1 is doing quite well on Literotica. As usual the trolls had a field day gnawing away at the score. It went from 4.89 to 4.63, in one day, but now that they have that out of their system, the score is climbing back up and is at 4.73. I expect those troll votes will be swept away during the Summer Lovin contest. I wasn't expecting such a great response because GSTQ doesn't do well on an erotica site, but also this episode is complex. Each chapter jumped from the present to another point in Josh and Octavia's history then back to the present. However one reader was kind enough to leave a wonderful comment:

                Not much new can be said about your creations. Your ability to weave a tale is among the best. I am not a literary type of person. I have read very few books, mostly things like Isaac Asimov creations, or trilogy’s, such as Dune. War and Peace was good but not my cup of tea… Your creations hold the best of all my favorites. Intrigue, emotions, and levity make you one of those creators of vision that are fun to read as well as visualize. Oh yeah, this one got another Outstanding Read ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating. Thanks for sharing your creations. I am looking forward to the next part of this one.

                 Was I just compared with Asimov, Frank Herbert, and Tolstoy? I'll take it. This story was so much fun to write and I proof-tested my AI Grammar Prompt which ran smoothly.  Also - GSTQ Book 5 Part 1 was the 150th story that I posted on Literotica.

                Also I want to answer a question that I received from a reader, because I'm sure that other readers have the same question - Yes! There is much more Stormwatch on the way. As you know, I jump from project to project mostly for you. I would love to stick with Gods Save the Queen, but Stormwatch fans would feel left out. So I jump from project to project to try to even out the time between chapters. It also gives me time to think up ideas to add to the stories. Right now I am working on Stormwatch Chapter 17, but it's coming a bit slow. It starts with Josh being summoned to the mayor's office and she sounded angry.

                I hate to say it for you Stormwatch fan, but Chapter 17 has been pushed to the background again. When a project wraps up there's actually a couple of days between KMaz and I getting it as perfect as we can make it, then it goes off to wherever the next stop is. I usually take a day or two to unwind and the dive into the production of the next project, and currently I have my stories, this newsletter, a blog on blogger, a blog on Wrist.com, a blog on Stories on Line, and a daily AI Image on Nightcafe. Ok, the blogs are sort of the same… they are now at least. I'm writing a series on what it takes to write Gods Save the Queen for Stories On Line, but that's only 500 words or so. It gets expanded and illustrations added for Wrist (Confessions of a Writing Dog) then that gets dumped int Duleigh's Bookshelf where everything else gets dumped, including this newsletter and my AI images.

                I was wondering what to do for the Summer Lovin' contest. I had a couple of options, I was thinking of two characters on another part of Kodu that hasn't been explored yet, but I thought where would summer not happen? In space, of course. Then I remembered - I have two huge "wagon wheel" space stations, one in Earth orbit (Camp Schmidt Marine Space Station) and one parked on Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1 (Armstrong Naval Space Station).

                It started to fall together. A young rocket-jockey wannabe did something that got his training accelerated and he was blasted into space in a single seat fighter to find his way to Armstrong NSS. That station is 85% of the way to the moon, and he had to solo in a tiny ship. When he gets there he discovers two things, one is that the station is having a huge Summer Solstice party on the Earth Ring (Largest ring on the station) and he also found a super-hot middle-aged woman who used to be a Zero-G combat tactics instructor. Mayhem ensues.