Year: 2017

  • Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon — Free downloadable sample

    Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon — Free downloadable sample

    IN THIS EPISODE: Gunslinger Moon When freedom is silenced, who speaks for it? Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview’s owner has tasked with finding the meaning behind Bashtyk Nokyd’s enigmatic final diagram. Drawing the most undesirable assignment, Jex and an unlikely ally fight their…

  • Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon

    Longview 4: Gunslinger Moon

    CHAPTER ONE Shay Shay closed her eyes and rubbed her temples. She’d been in her office for hours, a “Do Not Disturb” sign on her door, looking for any single tiny piece of new information that might let her believe hope still existed.That her stupidity had not destroyed Settled Space’s last best chance for freedom.…

  • So… Free Stories for SF and Fantasy Readers? Yep…

    So… Free Stories for SF and Fantasy Readers? Yep…

    I’ve been doing “indie” stuff to get ready for bringing out Longview #4: Gunslinger Moon. I’ve put together a special SF & F Reader Notification list for folks who like the genres, and set up two free stories that you can get. The first you receive automatically when you join the list. Oddfolks is “odd…

  • Currently on the Needles

    Currently on the Needles

    I have the next to last lesson in How to Write a Series almost finished THREE repubbed novels  now working through a launch under a pseudonym (my first voluntary one) Six novellas I’m reworking, editing, and updating with new covers, formatting, debugging, and other clean-up, including the next NEW story, Longview #4: Gunslinger Moon One…

  • Longview #4: Write-in revision completed

    Longview #4: Write-in revision completed

    I finished up the write-in revision this morning, and while I was at it, completed the story blurb: TALES FROM THE LONGVIEW, EPISODE 4: Gunslinger Moon When freedom is silenced, how does it speak? Ex-PHTF slave WE-39R (This Criminal, from Episode 1), renamed Jex, is part of a team the Longview’s Owner has tasked with…

  • New Longview 4 first draft DONE!

    New Longview 4 first draft DONE!

    Just the link. Still have a ton of work to do before I sleep. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Three A.M. Wakeup: The NEXT Cadence Drake

    Three A.M. Wakeup: The NEXT Cadence Drake

    Technically it was the thunder that woke me up, but the Longview story I’m writing now (#4, still without a title) had stirred up something in the back of my mind. In Longview #4, there’s this game AI, you see. She’s really cool. Name is Retha. And I got to thinking about her, and about…

  • Made some nifty progress on the next Longview story

    Made some nifty progress on the next Longview story

    Had a really good writing day today, to the point of getting sucked into the story, forgetting to keep track of my timer, and writing about half an hour over my planned hour. Details here. Because I wrote more elsewhere, and am already behind on the other things I need to do today. Download as…

  • Not a revision. A new story.

    Not a revision. A new story.

    So I printed out my draft of The Vipers’ Nest, and today I read through it, sorting as I went. 32,000 words of what I wrote came out, and will go into Longview 5: The Vipers’ Nest Keeping Matt’s comments in mind, I focused on finding the quiet space for this story. This story will just…

  • Finished Vipers’ Nest… Until I didn’t.

    Finished Vipers’ Nest… Until I didn’t.

    Sometimes you finish a book and you know you don’t quite have it. I’d done my short version print-out, read-through revision of Longview 4: The Vipers’ Nest. Finished the story last Tuesday with 40,000-plus words, which made it officially a novel. But back of the mind said, Don’t say anything. Not yet. You don’t have…