Hi,

Holy Shit. It's been over a year and a half since my last post. And since then, I've posted 16 videos to YouTube under Bookworm Addict and added a second channel called Sister Scholastica. 

I have had two requests to review 1984 and an online book, The Kinstone Series by  Kerosoldier.

I'll get to them when I can.

Right now, I'm focused on the Debates of Honor books. 

More regular updates coming soon.

I Worry about the Republic.

 Hi,

   Well, this past week I've had Covid Omicron edition. Now, I can't stop freaking coughing and my back 

muscles hurt from lying it all the time. I have a fairly well-established group of characters in mind that I 

could make multiple family trees from to fill several books. But I'd need the baseline story first. It's listed 

on this Blog under Debates of Honor. I feel the time is now to remind this great nation of ours of why we 

are free, united, and strong. But we can't be that way if we allow ourselves to be divided into Left vs. 

Right, Blue vs Red. 

     This nation is 246 years old. If we want to see 250 or even 260, we better figure our shit out fast. 

Under the current bunch of politicians this country is circling the drain, but Americans can stop the slow 

the flow of degeneracy and decadence that is destroying the United States. We must stand together as a 

people and say no more. We won't be divided. We won't become authoritarian, fascist, or communist. 

    

Update

 I started this post originally in early January. However, because of a disease, procrastinitis, I'm just getting back to it now.

I am starting a return to my Debates of Honor's first book Patriarch and hoping that by this time in October of 2022 that I have at least three chapters written. Outlining and reading take time. 

I need to get more videos made. I have five and would like at least 20 more by year's end. So, I have my work cut out for me. Yet, I feel inhibited by making videos because of...issues. If I had more privacy, I'd happily think about it. But some videos may have to wait until I get a decent job and have money to buy appropriate housing, transportation, equipment and more.

 Good Evening,

    It has been sometime since I last posted here. I've been going over a story I haven't worked on since 2011 and I am looking to rewrite it. 

     It is called the Onestran Chronicles: Redemption. In this story I examine the idea of how to destroy a phylactery and to redeem an evil soul named Zepar, Death Knight of Sildur. It has nothing to do with this Wiki Death Knight | Villains Wiki | Fandom. 

      It has nothing to do with the Japanese Fire Emblem Heroes. In fact, I started it almost 20 years ago, but became discouraged with certain plot points. 

      Redemption has to do with Selena Craig, an orphaned girl whom (who?) does not know her true birthright. She is descended from a long line of ancient sages and prophets and nobility. She is the bearer of Amon Feral's phylactery (an item that was stolen from a lich). Zepar pursues her asking to be redeemed, but Selena is frightened and traumatized and she does not understand what the creature wants or why. She know only that to her senses it radiates pure evil. Along with her beloved cousin, Goliath Bierce, a few protectors, and a mysterious Hamuri, she must figure out the being's intentions and how to stop an even greater evil appearing in the west. After all Phoenixes never truly die and she is an Ataxian (no intention to belittle actually sufferers of the muscle ailment known as ataxia).

Greetings,

   Well it is now July 9th, 2020. The universe seems to be spinning out of control and good evidence of that is the latest Supreme Court ruling that fucks over 1.8 million Oklahomans. But I guess their lives, wishes, dreams, and freedoms don't matter to the United States Supreme Court when ruling in favor of pedophile Jimcy McGirt. But then, how many of SCOTUS are hidden child diddlers or were friends with Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislane Maxwell, hmmm?

   All it means is that I now have to get my ass in gear and start working on Book one of Debates of Honor: Patriarch. After all if OK can get screwed over so could SD, MI, PA, NY, and MA.

 

BOOK OUTLINES FOR DEBATES OF HONOR SERIES

SERIES TITLE:  DEBATES OF HONOR

SUBTITLES:

   Book One: Patriarch (John)

   Book Two: Coldstream Guard (Robert)

   Book Three: Marching to War (Daniel)

   Book Four:  Cherokee Dawn (Luke)

   Book Five: Yankees (Ezra)

   Book Six: Love and Rage (Isaiah)

   Book Seven: Damn Pontiac (William)

   Book Eight: The Pennamite (James Ezekiel)

   Book Nine: Beauty’s Revenge (Mary)

AUTHOR: FRANCINE PRICE

NUMBER OF WORDS:

NUMBER OF PAGES:

THEMEs:  Honor, integrity, humanity, family, country

GENRE: HISTORICAL FICTION

TIME FRAME: SevenYears’ War to the end of Sullivan’s Expedition

GENERAL LOCATION: Connecticut, Michigan, Pennsylvania (in Philadelphia, Lackawanna County, and the Wyoming Valley and Connecticut).

TAGS: Colonial History, American History, Native American History, War, Colonialism, and Genocide and Ethnocide

SERIES SYNOPSIS:

•      What is the price of one’s honor and integrity? Does being a God-fearing man trump honor and integrity in favor of one’s country or does honor go hand-in-hand with protecting innocents and people stuck in the center of a conflict not of their own making? These are the questions the Blackthorpe men and their sister will wrestle with while supporting two sides of the conflict.  These very ideas might well tear the siblings apart and precipitate a private civil war which might destroy them.  Is family honor and loyalty stronger than the honor and loyalty to one’s country?  What price will the Blackthorpe siblings have to pay to protect their honor and loyalty to each other, their families, and their countries?

•      Book One: John Blackthorpe became the family’s patriarch after his father passed in 1748.  He has several mouths to feed and younger siblings to protect.  He was not an easy man to get along with as a result.  But the last few wars have had their toll on him.  He knows it is a matter of time until he would be heading back to fight for his country and his life.

•      Book Two: Robert Blackthorpe watches his brother John struggle with the responsib-lities of being the head of the family while also wanting to seclude himself in his religious studies.  Robert receives a commission from Thomas Penn into the British regulars as a Left Lieutenant of Army Surgeons.

•      Book Three: Daniel Blackthorpe marches with Colonel George Washington as they head toward where the French are said to have encamped. He joined to learn the lay of the land beyond the Juniata River.  He wanted to set up a new homestead, but the good this would bring might be pricey; it would come at one Hell of a price.  Can he survive the coming war with sanity and honor intact?

•      Book Four:

•      Book Five:

•      Book Six:

•      Book Seven:

•      Book Eight: James Ezekiel Blackthorpe chooses to side with the Pennsylvanian government under Thomas Penn and helps with the invasion of the upper Susquehanna River Valley near Wyoming Valley in evicting Connecticut settlers off land Pennsylvania regards as her own.  But where is the honor in murdering women and children, which he refuses to do?  His ethical battle comes to a peak in December 1775, when he participates in a pitched battle near Rampart Rocks, with Colonel Plunkett, and is wounded and rescued by Moira Rebecca O’Shea.  His honor demands he protect the young woman that saved his life.  How will he side? What are the real debates of honor?

•      Book Nine:

Have the Inquisitions Returned?

   As I sit here munching on black and white sandwich cookies, I am perforce to think about witch hunts and the historic Inquisitional periods of the past. Those periods include the Medieval, Roman, and Spanish Inquisitions because I believe that in some ways we have returned to them without actually proclaiming the Inquisitions restarted. The only difference is that Homo sapiens or human beings no longer burn people at the stake.

    For this reason I am writing my pre-Reformation and a second book on the Reformation to describe why these times we live in are in some ways similar to what occurred in the past. I believe that if we study history and pay attention to the admonitions "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," and "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" that perhaps we, as a civilization, can rid our world of this destructive 1984-esque mentality we seemed to have wrapped our nations' and cultures' politics in.

     One hundred years and more into the future historians will look back on this time and scratch their heads and ask what in the Hell we were doing to ourselves. The facts are 1, we don't know, and 2, at the moment, we also don't seem to give a damn about caring.