CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

 Like I said in the last post, I didn't start a Youtube channel with the idea of doing anything more than finding out how to make videos so I could help my youngest do that when they were old enough...and then I started having fun...and then I wondered if it was a place to share my writing...and what that might even look like... ...so I gave it a poke...a really little poke...to try it out. I'm not sure I've got it "right" yet, or what that might even be, but I'll never know what the journey might look like if I don't take the first step. They tell me you get better with practice...which also means you have to begin. I'm not saying how many times I started, stopped, and then started again with these, but the first step's been taken, and the next ones will be better. Here are the first chapters of the first three books of the Mack 'n' Me 'n' Odyssey series:  Mack 'n' Me: Origins : in which Cutter learns why stowing away is a...

Since I’ll be releasing the fourth book in the Mack ‘n’ Me ‘n’ Odyssey series on Friday, US time, I figured I’d continue with the first chapter reads of the series so far. This week, it’s the first chapter of Mack ‘n’ Me: Arach , the third book in the series. You can find the first chapter of the first book, Mack ‘n’ Me: Origins , HERE; the first 500 words of The Depredides Dance , the short story that takes place between these volumes, HERE; and the first chapter of the second book, Mack 'n' Me: Blaedergil's Hos t , HERE. What’s it About? Nothing ruins a good cup of kaff than a spider teleporting on board… and these were in the six-foot-business-suite-and-tie range, carrying blasters and a sense of entitlement like you wouldn’t believe. They gave me a job to do, and held my ship hostage while I went to do it—and *that’s* when everything went all to Hell. Exactly how I’m gonna get us out of this one, is a mystery to me. First step, though, is to bust Mack and the ...

These are the three covers so far completed and approved in June. I’m hoping to complete one more cover, this month, but we’ll see how it goes.