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Hungarian Hussar Sabre and Fokos Fencing is now LIVE ON AMAZON! Put on your wings*, buckle on your sabre, and gallop on over to pick yourself up a copy of this extensively illustrated how-to manual for all your Hungarian Hussar sword (and axe!) fighting needs. Advertisements

I’m delighted to announce, after a long production process, the latest book I’ve worked on is in its final stages and will be available soon from Amazon! From the back copy: Hungarian Hussar Sabre and Fokos Fencing provides a heavily-illustrated, step-by-step guide for how to fence — and how to teach! — Hungarian sabre fencing, as […]

Hi there, my long-time-not-seen blog people! I honestly didn’t intend to take a slightly-more-than-a-year-long break from this here old blog, but then in the middle of March last year, this happened:   My life, and that of the family, got considerably more complicated. Worth it, oh yes, but even less easy and simple than it […]

Hi folks! So, I don't have a Patreon (keeping up with one more thing just doesn't fit in the schedule. Now, if somehow there were a Patreon where patrons could donate spare minutes, that would be awesome. Like, "Well, I was just going to use those five minutes messing around on my phone, so you can have them." I would be all over that. Anyway!), but I found out about this new site, ko-fi.com. It is like Patreon but without the upkeep.

So here, if you feel like putting a little in my tip jar, towards actual coffee or art supplies or just a wee tiny drop of sanity, is the link to mine:

http://ko-fi.com/capnflynn

Thanks for looking!

Hi-ho, everybody! Smashwords is doing one their intermittent promotions, so for this week only you can sail over there and get the ebook of The Voyage to Ruin for FREE! Just use the coupon code SFREE at checkout.   And if you read it, and you like it, please leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads […]

So when I said last time I’d post Part Two “after Christmas,” I didn’t intend it to be literally after the entire Octave, but that’s how it shook out. Welcome back, and here’s wishing you all a joyous and blessed New Year!   SPOILERS FOR ROGUE ONE AHEAD. (Also The Last Samurai, if you haven’t seen that.) […]

Hi guys! I’m still alive! Life has been relentlessly lifing at me since my last, and as I said awhile back, the first thing to get dropped is blogging. I just saw Rogue One, though, and I am full of thoughts that I wanted to share. So full of thoughts that I’m splitting this post into […]

I sat down to write this morning, and like I do I decided to check social media first. (Because nothing says “getting into the right frame of mind for making up stories” like “fiddling around on Facebook for half an hour.”) And my body grew numb with horror and sorrow, and my tea got cold […]

In celebration of the Fourth of July weekend, my pirate adventure fantasy with dragons and airships, The Voyage to Ruin, is free! Light up your sparklers and crack open the delicious beverage of your choice, and sail over to V2R on Smashwords for oodles of nautical adventure. And remember, word of mouth is how indie authors survive. […]

Doors is a brand-new time travel romance from Joanne Renaud, author of A Question of Time (which I also reviewed), out now from Champagne Books. So, first, a disclaimer: Joanne’s a good buddy of mine, and I got to be a beta reader for this book, so even though I will try hard to be fair […]