M*A*S*H Returns -- Author Richard Hooker wrote not just the novel M*A*S*H, he also wrote two collections of short stories about the men from the 4077th once the Korean War was over and they settled in Hawkeye's old home town of Spruce Harbor, Maine.

This book is a collection of fan fiction (meaning unauthorized but written with love) short stories in the same vein and tone as Hooker's works and go even further into the lives of Hawkeye, Duke, Trapper John and many others as the 1950s pass and they create their own brand of mayhem and fun in their new locale.

CLICK HERE to read/download one of the stories.

M*O*R*E   M*A*S*H -- Follow-on set of short stories. This one adds 13 new stories about life post Korea for Hawkeye, Duke, Trapper John, and some of the denizens of Spruce Harbor such as Wrongway Napolitano, Tip-toe Tannebaum, Dearie Finch-Brown, Big Benjy and more.

Includes a visit by Margaret "Hotlips" to see the old 4077th team, and a Prolog and Epilog that are self-contained stories in and of themselves

Read a sample story.

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Up On The Housetop, Click, Click BANG!--Number 2 in the Drew Nance mysteries, a short series of novellas aimed as poking as much fun at Nancy Drew (get the connection?) as possible yet still tell a fairly good mystery story.

Drew and his companion, Carl Keene, head to Drew's aunts' Aggie and Christa's house for the holidays and become embroiled in trying to find the person who killed a man dressed as Santa who had been climbing on their roof on Christmas Eve.

The problem is, the ladies ran out first and were found holding the murder weapon!

The MassiveMart Murder Mystery--Number 3 in the Drew Nance mysteries, a short series of novellas still poking fun at Nancy Drew while presenting a good mystery story.

Drew and Carl Keene are just pasing through Indianaolis when they stop off to do some shopping at a MassiveMart warehouse store. Drew presses Carl to climb far into a freezer to find the freshest ice cream only to have his friend shooting out backwards. Carl has just found a bit more than he wanted: a dead and frozen body.

Now the find they just can't go on their way until they help the rather inept local police force solve the icy death mystery.

Sandy Swift and the Beautiful Evening--A short story written for a friend who not only thinks the world of Sandy Swift but who has been on a search for a really good Root Beer flavored whiskey.

This story has both of those along with he, himself.

The Fiendish Bucket List of Dr. Fu Manchu--With time and age comes retrospection, and as Fu Manchu and his former nemesis, Denis Nayland sit having tea one afternoon Fu explains that he is worried about his future.

A holiday song and story has come to his attention and he wants to know if he has been naughty or nice because his new patron sain, Nicholas, is watching him. After listing his deeds and finding his has little chance to be on the good list, he decides to embark on a bucket list of things to do to try and turn his personal tide.

This was written simpy to amuse Mr. Hudson and must not be considered a great literary work! It is, however, a good spoof if you have every read one of the Sax Rohmer books.

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Brains Benton and Case of the Insane Woman Down Memory Lane--An extension of a short series of juvenile books from 1959-1961. In this novel, Brains and his pal Jimmy are no longer young teen sleuths. Both have graduated from universities and have good jobs out in the Los Angeles area, but find themselves back in their old home town on an extended vacation, taking on a case at Jim's sister Ann's request.

Mrs. Periwinkle is an odd woman given to wearing an aluminum strainer on her head to ward off aliens she says are after her. When she disappears, her daughter, who is as strange as she is, seems to be working with and against the duo as they try to solve the mystery.

Brains & Jimmy - The Mrs. Periwinkle Case--Taking the book shown to the left, Mr. Hudson rewrote it for young reader, simplifying the text and returning Brains and Jimmy to their 13-year-old selves.

This version is meant to be enjoyed by kids while their parents can enjoy the same basic story with the other, more rich, book, and share in the same mystery and adventure and fun.

Kids With Karacter--Number 1. A series of stories for kids to demonstrate how positive character traits (loyalty, honesty, helpfulness, etc.) are much better than negative ones (gossiping, sulking, telling lies, etc.).

Each story features kids and adults who exhibit the traits showing how it affect people around them and help children understand why they ought to mimic the positives and how to overcome the negatives.

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Tom Swift to the Rescue--When writing one book an author sometimes finds they have written something, even a few chapters, that just don't fit. What to do?

Well, you can do like this and turn those unwanted words into a short story. Then, as actually happened, two books later on you may find they now fit in the new story, so you take them, rewrite them a bit, and voila!

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The Speedboat Sisters In a Race -- First in a limited run series of books for adverturous girls. The DeChancie sisters are identical triplets whe are just turing 18 and getting out of high school. Before they head off to college they want to have fun and adventures in their CrisCraft speedboat. It is 1932 and they are itching to have lots of fun.

In this book they prepare to enter a race around their local lake. Participants will collect clues attached to buoys floating around the lake that will lead to a treasure hunt after the race.

But, trouble is ahead as a local boy tries to sabotage their efforts and even ruin their beautiful boat.

These books are written in the style of the early 1900s and include some archaic spellings and terms.

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Coming, some day… a couple more Speedboat Sisters adventures:

The Life of BI: Complete--Bobbi Ingliss, BI, is an anomaly. She was born bi-gender to a mother who abandoned her in the hospital and a gambler, alcoholic father who tries to do his best, but when he dies leaving his teenage daugher/son alone, she must fend for herself and find her place in the world. She is also a genius and more mature that her years would let on.

THIS IS NOT A BOOK FOR KIDS. IT DEALS IN FRANK, ADULT SUBJECT MATTER.

The book includes some of BI's own words from her diary as a teenage girl, a memory she shares of her young adult life when she has a crisis of identity, and a biography of her adult life as she makes peace with herself and the world at large, finds true love, and lives her life trying to help others.

Some material deals with gender identity, parents who think someone else can "fix" a child who doesn't fit the mold they think they should inhabit, and features a few, mild, scenes of a sexual nature.

Tom Hudson loves the books in the Perry Rhodan series, an ongoing space opera written in Germany since the early 1960s encompassing a couple thousand volums to date. In the U.S. Forest J Ackerman and his wife, Wendayne, translated about 140 of the first 150 books, but gave up before the thirid cycle (each 50 books long) was completed. Tom spent a couple months translating and "Englishizing" the final books in Cycle 3 and published them for his own enjoyment. With no right to even reprint the German editions, he is stuck sitting on them for now, but is willing to share a fun little excerpt with any interested parties.

The following is a side-by-side example of the German to English literal translation and what he eventually wrote using that as a starting point (which is what Ackerman, et al, did.) It may be interesting to note Tom doesn't speak or read German! The basic translation was done with an application on the Internet.

CLICK HERE to view a short demo of that frustrating experience.