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Here it is at 2207 on a Friday night, and I’m alone again in the house. Since it had been a while, I thought I would drop by and check in with my blog pals. Lots has been going on since the last time I spoke. There has been much success at being traditionally published, which is the main theme of this blog. Introducing myself to all of you helps a bit as well. I munked around in Tampa for three and a half months after returning from our trip to San Francisco and our two- and one-half week cruise to Hawaii. I had a blast. Its my 24tgh big extended cruise, and we have done six small half day harbor cruises over Charleston Harbor, out to Fort Sumpter, and the historical cruises. We’ve also taken two in Savanna Gorgia, and the nice one in Miami that goes out to Millionaire Island and all of these places. We’ve been on the one in Manta, Ecuador, where you get to explore what was once a real pirate island. Needless to say, we took the Harbor Cruise in San Francisco and rode the Double Dutch Buss. To put it mildly, I love being on the water.

The big news here at this time is that there has been a fair amount of publishing success in only the past three months. A novella I wrote a few years back or so finally found a publisher. I received the 100.00 check last week. Soon as it comes out, I’ll be certain to put the link up.

I’ve had at least two poetry journals agree to publish my poetry. I’ll be putting those links up soon as they come out.

Hello again, my dear reading fans. This is one of the links. Inside you’ll find several of my latest poems. Click inside and seek out the name H.L. Dowless. Honestly, my secondary intent really is to promote this lady’s work. I admire her for mothering this journal into existence. I am very proud that she allowed me to be a part of its birthing, and I fully intend to do everything I can to help out.

My dream is to have my own publishing company, newsletter, online and physical bookstore up and running one day soon. I have four Amazon best sellers, but I feel like I need to win at least one or two literary contests of some sort or put in for and win some sort of literary award. Maybe I am wrong in this conviction, but I sincerely desire this to court conviction of qualification from my potential customers. Like I said in the story “One Day in My Hole in The Wall.” I don’t want to simply be good; I want to be DAMN GOOD!!! The kind of good that invites screams and creates unction in the new blue jeans, if ya know what I mean. There exists a huge difference in this sort of conviction. Anyway, as the other publications of my latest hit the market, I’ll be posing those links as well, so stay tuned!

Right now, I’m in limbo here in the tropics. I’m making a living going door to door giving tutoring lessons for ESL classes. I’m writing an ESL workbook and selling these writings to potential students and interested people. When the wife and I finally get our two fully crafted manuscripts ready, we’ll sell these and quit teaching. We’ve already had many interested potential buyers, so stay tuned for more in days to come. Maybe I can post links to our workbooks when they hit the public market.

And The Beat Goes On!

Here it is December fourteen, twenty-twenty five, and I’m sitting around in Sanborndon, Ecuador, once more again. I haven’t had loads of financial success, but I sure have had a ton of publishing success since I wrote last. My financial accomplishments well may not endure the ages, but my literature publishing successes well may. https://www.amazon.in/Flummox-Dazzling-motivating-Sensation-Running/dp/9371826452

In the work above: When an herbalist’s quiet mountain expedition cracks open the earth, he plunges into a world stitched from dream stuff and danger. In a cavern’s depths, a mercury-skinned nymph guides him past enchanted forests and sugar-scented traps to witches both wondrous and wicked. He marries one for 104 days—time enough to lose himself. But escape is only the beginning. A king’s grave beneath Viking soil hides a medallion pulsing with ancient magic, while real life awaits above. Yet home feels stranger than the worlds below, especially when he meets her: the perfect woman with familiar eyes and forgotten shadows. Because she isn’t just anyone—she’s secretly the witch who haunted his darkest dreams!

Hee is another one you should investigate! https://www.amazon.in/Confessions-Child-Horky-burning-parade/dp/9371821078

The work above is actually a true account. Once upon a time there was an event known as the tobacco festival and a “Barn Burning Parade” where a carefully selected local guest speak told his own war stories and more. So much that occurred at this event back in that day would be ultra politically incorrect and offend the imposed political agenda to an extent that there well might be a nationwide back lash against it. The local culture is intentionally being displaced by the fiends of communism gradually dominating the general political and social scene.

Here are some of my poetry successes. I’ve had many with this journal. https://chewersmasticadores.wordpress.com/2025/12/09/sweet-swamp-tunes-by-h-l-dowless/

Check this out! I have no idea who the man in the photograph is. https://www.thehorrorzine.com/Poetry/Sept2023/Dowless/HLDowless.html

I’ve had many more successes in publishing, but this should be enough to stir your taste buds a bit. I have yet to initiate my get rich quick program. I know what must be done. I’ll return back to The States. I need a job there first.

Here I sit! 11/9/2025

Yes, it’s been a while since I updated last. Indeed, much has occurred in my life. While I’m sitting on a couch in Sanborondon, Ecuador, I’m also working on a wealth creation project, among other things. I know exactly what I must do, and I literally could go from zero to a quarter mill in a month or so, but I have yet to make a move. I went from zero to twenty thousand in cash relatively fast. That was good for a fifty-six-year-old, don’t you think? The wonderful how-to specifics are already catalogued for future readers. No other author anywhere is offering doable direct how-to specifics like I am. Most of these people who do this type of writing and video production, are putting out non-specific material, giving ready and ever willing activators such as I presently am, inconsistent, often low-perfuming results.

Maybe soon, you too can ride out with me in my writing and activate your own plan for wealth building as I activate mine. What has stymied me, however, is the fact that my last two jobs shut down, and my long bouts of unemployment. I blame myself for that part, however. I love to travel, party, and play. If I have no job, then why not, when the opportunity presents itself? What if I die tomorrow? A one-and-a-half-week cruise down to the islands, six months in Ecuador, where a 3-thousand-dollar savings goes really far, rambling into tropical beaches, Andean towns, while roaming around at liberty in ancient Incan temples to the sun– I want to do it all, to be honest! When my project is complete, while I had to fumble, jumble, and stagger around like a drunk man on the seas exploring foreign islands, fighting monsters, demons, giant ten headed snakes, and more to find my own way; readers will know exactly what to do with my own handy, dandy personal wealth building guide like no other ever written, in hand. Would you like that?

Much in the name of publishing success has happened since I wrote last on here. I’ve had short stories and poems published in maybe 20 different journals, anthologies, magazines, and zines. I also had a very unique novel and a short story collection published. I have lived with family, in hotel rooms, and in a foreign country for months on end. I worked inside school at a unique orphanage for adopted girls from mega wealthy families. I also worked at a school for struggling high school students in an entirely different town. Now I’m in Ecuador again.

It’s all up in the air, but I’m trying to land employment as an instructor at a large English academy opening up in maybe 3 weeks next door to the community here. I know where I can get a MA here for $3500.00 that is good all over the world, including in the USA. If this all goes through, then I’m not returning to the USA on January 22. I may remain here for another year. Anyway, stay tuned here for more live action in one author’s life!

Some of My Latest Publishing Success Stories

https://www.amazon.in/Flummox-Dazzling-motivating-Sensation-Running/dp/9371826452

https://www.amazon.in/Confessions-Child-Horky-burning-parade/dp/9371821078

https://mybook.to/BeautifulTragedies4