Explosive Celebration

Today I celebrated the release of Fleet Elements with a virtual cocktail party attended by several of my favorite writer friends.  I decided to have a champagne cocktail, and to open the champagne bottle by a traditional method employed by the French military— slicing off the top of the bottle with a sword (or in my case, a Nepalese kukri).

I’d never done this before, so the results were a little . . . imperfect.

Watch and learn.