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It's time for a new story. As I mentioned before, this one will be considerably different than my others. The hero isn't all that heroic.

"Do you really think James Bond was born James Bond? Or was he actually born Joey Numbnuts and then changed it after he became Double-Oh-Seven? How do you get to be James Bond? Where do you start? And how do you leave? How does James Bond retire? What happens when he runs out of spies to catch? Does he go back to being Joey Numbnuts?"

As always, I plan to publish a chapter every Tuesday and Friday. I hope you like it. There's not a lot of hot and heavy sex in this one, so if that's what you are looking for, sorry. I'll turn on voting halfway through the story.

Good news for my loyal readers. The new story is finished. Now I simply need to go through the editing process. I have had a huge amount of help from my technical and editing team of jjmcdonald7911, N12614, Old Rotorhead, grynslvr2, and pdkrause. I couldn't do this without their assistance. Right now I am in the final stages, which basically consists of reading the story over and over, looking for typos, technical errors, bad grammar, and continuity errors. I should be able to begin posting the first week of January. At that time, I would expect to post on my normal schedule, a chapter every Tuesday and Friday.

Keep an eye out for a quickie submission. Not my next story. That will be in January.

For those curious, I am still writing. My current project is tentatively titled The Contractor and will probably be published early 2021. This story is going to be considerably different than my last big project. For one thing, the protagonist is not so much a hero as he is an antihero. This is a complex fellow. The sex is minimal, being about the same level as the Grim Reaper series; it is definitely not a stroke story. In addition, this is unlike anything I have written before, and I am not at all sure how it will work out. I am about two-thirds of the way through; also, it's not going to be as long as some of my other stories.

For those curious as to the content, here's snippet from the middle of the story:

"Do you really think James Bond was born James Bond? Or was he actually born Joey Numbnuts and then changed it after he became Double-Oh-Seven? How do you get to be James Bond? Where do you start? And how do you leave? How does James Bond retire? What happens when he runs out of spies to catch? Does he go back to being Joey Numbnuts?"

Anyway, that's the latest. I hope you enjoy it when I finish.

Got this answer on copyright and trademark law. "I'm a retired lawyer, so this isn't a "legal opinion." I can't charge you because my law license is "inactive." Titles of books and names of fictional characters normally can't be copyrighted. So, don't worry about this. If you want to make and sell dolls with Jeannie's name, beware of trademark issues." Not in my plans!

For those curious, no, I don't plan to make this the start of a series. This was a one-off type of piece that I started a decade ago and decided to finish off. Nor do I intend to write stories based on any of the story ideas listed in either Future Plots or Memo - Reply. Those ideas were simply part of the story within the story. Thanks for the interest.