All this Rebel Flag stuff has put me in a rather awkward position as an author.

See, over the last nine years or so I've written a spate of stories that take place in a fictional timeline where space was colonized by semi-educated poor low-class rural types, mostly from the US. Rednecks, essentially. Of course about a third of the colonists are Russian and Chinese peasant-farmer types, too, and there's ones from other countries in even smaller numbers, but the bulk of the colonists were basically American hillbillies.

Ok, well, it's official: we're getting evicted from our home of sixteen years. if you've been holding off buying a copy of one of my books, now would be a good time. The current one is here:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/520597

but I also used to write under the name "Kevin Long." My stuff is on smashwords here https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/rthree

or if you prefer amazon:

I wrote a little editorial, but it's not really appropriate for Republibot, so post it elsewhere and link to it here. 

I've been asked/volunteered to contribute an article to good ol' Republibot once a week; a committment that I honestly haven't been very good about. Today...well, I was going to say, "Today I'm gonna do blah blah blah," but then I realized I honestly know what I'm gonna talk about. I'm just plopping myself down at the keys, and let's see where all this leads.