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Happy New Year to all my friends and followers! Thanks for making 2024 a great year. I wish the best to everyone in 2025!

As for my upcoming book, A Band of Dogs, I have set February 2, Ground Hog Day, 2025, as my release date. I chose this date for a reason...

It has been back and forth with me, for those who follow my posts, on trying to make a book fit a mold I could not make - that is make A Band of Dogs a children's book - which it eventually morphed into, and stayed as, a Teen/Adult book, and where it will remain.

If you have not checked out the new video, you can see it on my video links, or as always, on YouTube under MephoPress.

Happy New Year!

I am, as can be expected, excited because today my third book released: A Band of Dogs: Foundations. It is a three part series but each book will be stand-alone (meaning no cliff hangers to force you to buy the next book!)

Where do I go from here?

Well, I have a lot of things in the works. Originally I was going to take a writing break and tie up some loose ends over the past year, but not me, I am on to the next book in the Marsh Adventure Series - Generations Lost and am working on the promotional material. I plan to start writing on it later today.

I still hope to get The Message out by end of year, that seems reasonable doable. But what else...

I am separating the writing arm from the publishing arm. My website is now just ridgewriter.com (singular) and I have created mephopress.com, which is the publishing arm. As an old "in the day" website developer, I enjoy designing web sites about as much as I enjoy writing.

Cleanup will have to wait, the writing but has bitten...or rather, it never left...

I've been sick. I can't determine my next book to read. However, that's now why I am sick. But being sick has kept from starting my work on Generations Lost, my second book in the Marsh Adventures series. Even though I am sick, I still decided to make my first official video. When I am sick...I just ramble on.

I released the video on my youtube channel today, Mepho Press, and will also load the video here.

The time of the dragonfly...is coming to an end.

I actually never expected this. I have finished writing the second book in the Marsh Adventure series - Generations Lost. It took only 20 days to write. I do not say that to brag - I enjoy writing. I knew where I wanted to go with this book when I started, and how it was to end. All the notes I hard started on it a year ago since finishing the original Marsh Adventure book had built up until about every chapter was defined.

Now of course comes cleanup and editing, which will take a while. Writing the draft manuscript is always the easy part.

I am happy with the characters, and some were created and added that I had not originally planned. I am happy with the storyline and how it ends.

I had created a book trailer for it and posted it here and on YoutTube. I have not been promoting the trailer, as I did not want it to overshadow or get ahead of A Band of Dogs.

And now, I must get to work on the editing, I am excited for this book and hope I don't disappoint all those who have been patiently waiting on the...in this case...the prequal.