Hey folks, as mentioned earlier, I’d like to use seeing the second Legion of Nothing novel’s cover as a vote incentive.

Please vote for Legion of Nothing on Top Web Fiction, and see the new cover.

EDIT: When I did this for the last cover, we actually got Legion up to the number one spot on TWF. TWF’s top spot is higher now than it was then, but Legion also has enough readers to reach it (temporarily, at least).

EDIT: I think this is the most votes LoN has ever gotten at once–169.

EDIT: Wow. 200.

EDIT: 255 and up to third place at one point which was cool as LoN is generally at 8th.

EDIT: Highest rank LoN got was 3rd with a 273 vote total–which is great.

Here’s what’s up: I usually finish my updates the night before they’re due. However Wednesday night is my wife’s and my wedding anniversary.

Writing on Wednesday night would tend to send the message that writing Legion is more important to me than our marriage.

For the record, this is a bad message to send. Thus I’ll be finishing on Thursday night/Friday morning.

See you then.

So… This can’t be confused with a good day. I awoke thinking that it was a little cold in the house. When I got downstairs, the thermostat showed 53 degrees. It was also blinking “LO” as in low battery. I changed the batteries to some batteries we had lying around.

No improvement.

As I still had time before work, I ran to the hardware store and bought new batteries and a new filter while I was at it.

No improvement.

So now I’m home and have bought a new thermostat (since even with brand new batteries none of the buttons worked). It claims that it can be installed in 15 minutes.

The last time I installed a thermostat it took two hours, largely because we have old, brittle wiring that has a tendency to break if manipulated.

Nonetheless, I’m going to take a shot at it tonight, and if I get too frustrated, I’m going to call a furnace repairman tomorrow.

How this will affect Legion’s update schedule remains to be seen.

I think that everything I had to say about this appears in the title of this post, but I’ll go a little further anyway.

This series has been going for seven years and will start it’s eighth today. It’s safe to say that I had no idea when I started this series that I would still be doing it now.

I had absolutely no idea that I’d be attempting to turn it into a series of books, or that the first one would be published by 1889 Labs, a small press. Basically, I’d always assumed that it would be a series on the web, and that would be it.

Actually, I’d thought that it would be a way to draw attention to other books that I’d write and publish through traditional publishers. As of now, I’ve yet to write said books, but when they do happen, they’ll probably be self-published–quite possibly on the web first.

Thanks for reading.

Sorry to tell you now, but I’m pushing the next update over to Friday. I thought I might be able to write it all last night, but that didn’t work out.

Today, however, is my wife’s birthday, and last night it occurred to me that doing my usual thing on Wednesday (writing until the update’s done, and basically ignoring everything else) would probably be a bad idea.

Thus, I’ll be finishing it up on Thursday, and posting somewhere between 1 and 2 EST on Friday.

In the meantime, if you do read the Pen and Cape Society website, you’ll note that I’m on the list as one of three options for Friday’s story update there. You can guess why I might be apphrensive about this. Feel free to click through and vote for well… anybody but me.