The Administrative category is to highlight my policies and any other details you might need to know about. I don’t expect there will be many entries here, but I wanted them to be easy to find.
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The Various category is for, well, anything that doesn’t belong in some other category. I’m new to general blogging, so I’m not sure what I’ll wind up putting here. This category, and maybe other categories, are likely to evolve as I go along.
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The News category is for posts about what I’ve been up to, mostly writing-related.
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September 13, 2025 – Yesterday I replaced the Softlife cover I made myself with a professional one by 100 Covers (100covers.com). It may take a while for the change to propagate to all sales channels, but eventually, every version will have the new cover. Next is to get more reviewers (any volunteers?).
New cover for Softlife Read More »
August 12, 2025 – I removed the rainbow-colored background from the home page’s header. I have nothing against the LGBTQIA+ community, but I’m not a part of it, and I don’t want to accidentally misrepresent myself. Back when I first created the header, the rainbow was just a set of colors used by various people
From rainbow to blue sky Read More »
June 28, 2025 – Another technical paper on which I’m a coauthor was recently published, so I’ve updated my publication list. (Note my old-school placement of the preposition “on.” I’m still a little old-school.) Not that I suppose anyone’s following my publication list closely, but I’m a bit compulsive and like to keep things up
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May 31, 2025 – I had cataract surgery on both eyes during April. Normal people get cataract surgery, recover quickly, and rave about their improved vision. Then there’s me. My first eye was about 20/20 after its surgery. A few weeks later, it began to cloud up, until everything became pretty much a white blur
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January 27, 2025 – My story Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest is today’s free story on Amazing Stories’s website! Have a look and a listen (I narrated the story for the audio version). https://amazingstories.com/2025/01/speaking-bear-leaders-quest-by-james-r-hardin-free-story/
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January 15, 2025 – The time for exclusive publication rights for Power to Power and WANT GOLD is long over, according to the contract for each. So I’ve posted the stories in the Short Stories page. This is especially helpful for WANT GOLD, since Daily Science Fiction has gone on indefinite hiatus and the story
Two Stories Added to Site Read More »
January 11, 2025 – My story Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest will appear in Amazing Stories (amazingstories.com) on January 20 for their Patreon subscribers and on their website January 27 for everybody! I’ll get the link once the story is posted.
My Amazing Story in Amazing Stories Read More »
June 11, 2024 – Finished both antibiotics yesterday. Returned the continuous infusion pump to the medicine provider and had my ports removed by the home health nurse. Nothing extra left on me or in me except a big bandage where the ports penetrated my arm, and that comes off tomorrow. I feel almost human again!
Done with treatment Read More »
May 4, 2024 – I just returned from six days in the hospital recovering from a UTI that had blossomed into a nasty sepsis infection. The hospital stay ran through my birthday–not my best birthday, but my lovely wife did bring me a small piece of my birthday cake each day. I never really felt
Sepsis hospital stay Read More »
February 19, 2024 – Not really news from your point of view, but it’s what I’ve been up to lately. Another security plugin showed me that unauthorized people (well, probably unauthorized bots) were trying to gain access to my administrator account several times a day. I get the impression this is pretty common, but it
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