Wow! Some of my great friends and readers surprised me with an amazing birthday gift the other day. Apparently, they'd been planning this for a long, long time. They gathered up the first volume of The Black Collar ( Chapters 1-18 ) from my blog, did a little editing for me...and put it together into a special limited, one time only, single copy print run!

They printed me a hard copy of Black Collar! Awesome! I was really baffled in the best way. Even made me sign on skype so they could watch me open it, lol.

They did an amazing job. Amazing enough that when the entire story is complete, and edited, and when Volunteer Maiden is complete, and edited, etc...

I may recruit them to help me put together the eventual final E-book and print versions down the road.

Till then, there's this beautiful thing.

This is a shot of the opening chapter. Looks fantastic, very pro. Especially love the font used for the chapter title.