Sgt. Dunn Novel #10 Title and Cover Reveal

Hello Sgt. Dunn readers!

I’m delighted to announce the title and reveal the cover for Sgt. Dunn Novel #10:

Lethal Ground

The book is description is below.

I hope to release the book sometime next week.

As of today, I’m 56% done with Edit #5. I’ll have one or two more to go. You can follow the progress of my editing process on this blog (upper left of blog page).

Lethal Ground

In the tenth book of the Sgt. Dunn WWII Action Thriller series, Munsterman draws from real terrifying and despicable operations the loathsome Nazis planned.

With Germany no longer able to produce an atomic bomb, Adolf Hitler dreams up a terrifying nightmare and orders the Nazi Minster of Armaments, Albert Speer, to make it happen. At Bletchley Park, where the German Enigma code messages are decoded and read daily, analyst Reginald Shepston and his assistant, Eileen Lansford, heroes from Saving Paris, discover the horrendous plot by the Nazi regime.

U.S. Army Ranger Technical Sergeant Tom Dunn is ready for action following a mission to blow up Hitler’s Dam. He takes his squad of lethal Rangers on a creative and subversive mission to France.

Meanwhile, British Commando Sergeant Major Malcolm Saunders meets Pope Pius XII in Colonel Jenkins’ office. Except it isn’t the Pope. It’s a British stage actor who is a perfect look-alike. The Vatican Swiss Guard has learned that the dreaded Nazi SS plans to kidnap the Pope and take him to Germany, where he would be subjected to the cruelty of an unmerciful Hitler. Saunders’ mission is simple: work with the Swiss Guard and keep the real Pope safe, while entrapping the SS with the decoy.

After returning from France, Dunn is assigned to stop the Nazis. He’s shocked and angered by their immoral plan to irradiate the earth near the front lines with their remaining uranium-235. Allied soldiers passing across the lethal ground would be exposed to deadly radiation. With so much at stake, Dunn forms a Ranger platoon. As they fight to stop the Nazis’ horrifying plan, they uncover the depths to which the Nazis will go.

In Lethal Ground, Munsterman reveals the true nature of the Nazis and their view of the world. His page-turning style puts the reader into a WWII story where he masterfully blends history and fiction to create an action-packed plot.

Cover Design by David M. Jones (Jonesy)

www.triarete.com

Beware the mouse slip

Yesterday I posted something about being really productive. Yay me . . . 

Today, I'm posting a warning about mouse slips. Yes, there is such a thing. It's when you do something with your computer's mouse or mouse pad that results in something bad, like buying something you don't want for $100 or in my case losing 1,000 words somewhere, which is far, far worse, believe me.

I had my Explorer window open on the right side in a small size. Behind it was my Google drive location where I store my novels' daily backups (one of the places they have a home). All you have to do is click and drag from the Explorer window to the Google window, and the files upload.

Unless you make a mouse slip. Somewhere between my Explorer file folders window and Google I let go of the click-and-hold mouse button on my laptop. I looked in the Explorer folder and could see the files for July 3rd and the 5th, but not the 6th, today. My heart sank. They were a beautiful 1,000 words. I could remember some of them, but really? 1,000?

I did a search for the file name on "This PC." It took for-damn-ever and finally replied, huh? We don't have one of those, you knucklehead.

I visually searched the two small folders listed under that thing I hate, One Drive. Nothing.

Panic has set in. This was the next to the last chapter of my newest book, for crying out loud.


Fortunately, I'm stubborn.

Then I double-click the root of that thing I hate, One Drive. Ah ha! There you are, my pretty! I copied by using Ctrl-C and went to my Explorer folder. Ctrl-V! yeah, Boom! Got my 1,000 words back, so there.

Then I ate dinner.

I'm okay now, but wow. Only 2,349 words to go. I think tomorrow I'll stick my thumb drive in my laptop and leave it there until I'm done. And I'll Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V my way to happiness.

Getting really close on Sgt. Dunn #10

On Saturday, June 30th, I set a personal record of 5,014 words in one day! That's almost 20 book pages! My daily goal is 2,000, so I was really pumped to beat 5 grand.

Today, I ONLY wrote 2,668, but am now 94% done with the first draft. I expect to finish it either Saturday or Sunday. Then after an edit or two, it'll be off to my famous FIRST READERS. 

I'm still hoping for a late July release.

Stay tuned for the title reveal and the book description.

See you soon.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Join WWII authors for a Twitter chat on D-Day, June 6th at 9pm EDT

Hi Sgt. Dunn readers!

I belong to a Facebook group of WWII fiction authors. We are having a D-Day chat on Twitter about anything and everything to do with WWII. This is a great opportunity to meet other WWII authors and chat with us. Questions are welcome.

Please join us at #WWIIChat on 6/6/18, this Wed. night starting at 9pm EDT. Or follow @Alexa_Kang https://twitter.com/Alexa_Kang to join the chat when it starts.

Help us Tweet and Retweet! Be sure to include the hashtag #WWIIChat in your tweets and RTs!

Hope to see you there.

Ronn

Remembering my Mom,

My mom, Olga R Munsterman, served in the Coast Guard during WWII as a Yeoman 2nd Class. She is buried at Leavenworth National Cemetery.

Memorial Day 2018

In remembrance and honor of those who died fighting for our great nation.

Arlington National Cemetary

Pod people

I'm a huge fan of 1950s science fiction movies. You know, the ones that are usually in black & white and are maybe "B" movies? However, some rise above the "B" status, and the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of them. I usually watch it on DVD about once a year, in fact I might be due . . . 

SPOILER ALERT

In the movie, aliens take over a California town through the use of "pods," thus the cultural term "pod people." My wife simply can't stand the pods, especially when they start to form humans, and they truly creep her out.

On one of the main roads we travel here in our city is a manufacturing company. This company instituted a new policy a few years ago that forbids smoking anywhere on the company property, which includes the parking lot. So smokers can't just go to their cars and light up.

We were driving by the gigantic parking lot one day right after the new policy went into effect, and there were about a dozen or more people standing on the public sidewalk, smoking. It was a cold, dreary winter day and they were huddled together wearing their heavy coats. Clouds of breath and smoke hovered over their heads.

I quickly said the first thing that came to mind: "Oh, look, it's the pod people!"

My wife laughed so hard . . . it was sure worth it. Now, every time we drive by and see folks on the sidewalk, I'm obliged to say, "Oh, look, it's the pod people!" Works every time.