Author: Chris Jansmann
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Coasted
At the risk of paraphrasing a classic song from the late 1970s, I’m back in Arizona after a whirlwind long weekend running through various parks at Walt Disney World. I’m still a bit tired – it will take a few more days to recover from putting that many miles on my body – but the afterglow of…
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Wine & Dining
As I write this entry, I’m wrapping up some final items at work and preparing to jump on a plane so I can complete the back half of the coast-to-coast challenge I blogged about a few weeks ago. It’s a bit hard for me to accept that the Fall has zipped by as fast as it has;…
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Finishing Touches and What’s To Come
I spent part of this past weekend putting the finishing touches on Belie, due out in a few weeks. Most of this effort was spent tweaking the cover art and then scanning the manuscript for any last-minute, egregious errors that might come back to haunt me later in the series. I have long lived in fear of accidentally…
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Train Redux
I had another chance to take the train out to see my friends in California recently; unlike the last time I visited, this trip was very much spur of the moment and (by necessity) needed to be low budget, so I booked a standard Coach ticket for the roundtrip. I admit to having had some…
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New Normal
Sean must face what his life has become – and the choices he has made to get there.
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Running
Unlike any of my characters, I am not an athlete. Yes, I swam competitively for a few years when I was a teenager, and I did flirt with both soccer and baseball at earlier points in my life. But somewhere along the way, I wound up taking the fork in the road that had me spending more time…
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On Deities and Vacations
The back half of the summer months tend to be when I take the lion’s share of my vacation time; with school out and the students away, it tends to be the quietest time to slip out from behind my desk and indulge in a tiny bit of self-care. Giving myself permission to take time off…
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Set Course for Las Vegas
Time once more to hobnob with my intergalactic friends.