24 January 2007 onwards
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12 July 2007. The site passed the 20,000 visitor mark today at 7pm GMT. A big thanks to all of you who's been here since the early days of March 2000.
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1 July 2007. Good month for visit stats. Apart from the website having the third highest ever for total visits, five of the stories had record visits in themselves; Liberator, Samurai, Conquistador, Legionnaire and Soldier of Gideon.
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23 June 2007. I've now completed listening to the Outcast. My review and basic story outline is to be found on the Outcast page.
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22 June 2007. On my return from holiday I found I'd received a CD copy of Paul Dengelegi's illegal story 'The Outcast'. I'm listening to it as I write this, and will let you have my review shortly.
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5 June 2007. On holiday for 10 days or so from 11 June so I'll read my emails on my return.
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26 May 2007. I've finally updated the Halls of Montezuma page. I'm also shortly to get hold of a CD of the illegal Paul Dengelegi story Casca: The Outcase. Once I've listened to it I'lll let you know what I think.
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10 May 2007. I've been given an opportunity to talk to Ben Rossen, the subject of Barry Sadler's "sniper" series which includes Seppuku, the film being released later this year. If fortune smiles, I'll have an extract of the interview on this website in a few weeks.
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3 May 2007. Not to ignore the other places around the world I've had contact with, here's those places outside the US that has Casca fans: UK 47, Canada 32, Australia 12, AFP/FPO 5, Sweden 4, Germany 3, Ireland / South Africa / France 1.
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2 May 2007. The number of Casca fans by state continues to develop. I keep a close watch on this as it gives me a clue as to where most would appear to be. Interestingly both Texas and California still stand way out in front. Figures (collated between June 2005 and April 2007): Texas 60, California 55, Virginia 29, Florida 28, New York 27, Washington 22, Illinois 20, Arizona 19, Georgia / Michigan / Ohio 17, Pennsylvania 16, Oregon 15, Mississippi / Colorado 14, Alabama / Missouri 13, Indiana 12, Louisiana / Kentucky 11, Arkansas 10, Oklahoma / North Carolina / Maryland / Tennessee 9, Kansas / Massachusetts / Nevada 8, Alaska / New Jersey / Connecticut 7, Minnesota / New Mexico / Iowa 6, South Carolina / Montana / Hawaii 5, Utah / Maine / West Virginia / Idaho / Nebraska 4, Wyoming / North Dakota 3, Wisconsin 2, New Hampshire / Delaware / Vermont 1.
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26 April 2007. The dispute with Books in Motion has been settled and once again a CD of Cascas 1-24 can be ordered through this website to them. See the Orderbook page.
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21 April 2007. Finally completed the character pages for Halls of Montezuma characters. Also the 2nd
draft of Johnny Reb is now with the publisher.
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12 April 2007. I've deleted the link to Books in Motion on the booklist page. They've not been honest with me and therefore I won't have anything more to do with them.
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31 March 2007. Mike Goodwin spotted a forthcoming series by Piers Anthony that's a direct rip-off of Casca. Its called Starkweather immortal and chronicles a Roman soldier cursed to immortality by Christ called Cartaphilus. The bible refers to this character, and to his alternative name - Longinus. Well, what plagarism! I've put it on the blog.
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20 March 2007. Completed characters up to and including Q on the website. Ongoing with the rewrite of Johnny Reb, I've done about half of the changes.
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2 March 2007. The publisher has given me the go-ahead to carry out the redraft of Johnny Reb. Two main bits and a few minor alterations are all that's needed. Should be done within 6 weeks.
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22 February 2007. The audio CD of Halls of Montezuma is now on amazon. I've put a link to it on the Orderbook page.
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20 February 2007. Completed characters up to L. Heard today that the CD version of Halls of Montezuma is shortly to go on sale on amazon. Will keep my eyes peeled for that.
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2 February 2007. Finally commenced putting the characters from Halls of Montezuma onto the character pages. So far I've done up to 'H'. I've also updated the book visit stats on the booklist page.
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25 January 2007. After my complaint the phishing tag was promptly removed. No idea who put it on in the first place.
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24 January 2007. Phishing warning suddenly appears for no reason. Thanks to Mac who brought it to my attention. I'm currently seeking to have it removed. No idea what its all about, although I suspect Geocities may be behind it as they are sore at me redirecting my Geocties-made site to www.casca.net which they say is against their rules. Silly boys and their toys.