Happy 251st Birthday to the United States Army! June 14, 1775.

 

Weird writer almost mistakes

When I was writing Operation Devil's Fire, I had a French character with a dog. I wanted to name the dog Rover after my uncle's dog in my childhood.

Then I realized a French person wouldn't name a dog Rover. So in the book, he was named Beaux.

Uncle Hugo's Rover looked something like this guy:

A day in a writer's life

I'm working on Sgt. Dunn Novel #23, which is untitled as yet.

I published Sgt. Dunn Novel #22, Careless Enemies, on May 11, 2026. It ranked #10 in War Fiction a week later. Thank you readers!

Since then, I have researched Korean War U.S. Rangers' actions for interesting ideas. I have three and am looking for two more.

Today I'll be using Google Earth to find real locations for actions in Korea and filling in the plot ideas with two or three sentence descriptions This allows me to write the chapter freely and creates spontaneous ideas, while keeping the main points on target.

Here's an example of my plot spreadsheet. Yes, I use Excel, and have done that since the first book, Book 1, Operation Devil's Fire, which is what you see a portion of below.

Check back some time to see what else I'm up to in a day of a writer's life.