Sometimes it pays to clean your desk. There it was, a printed copy of the incomplete manuscript with all my notes, all the background stuff, all the words. And then I noticed the manuscript was printed in one of my earlier Scrivener formats. Maybe two years ago. So I dug through the printed version, did a search for a unique … Continue reading →
The story came in at 30,073 words. Close enough to the 30,000 I’d planned to make me happy. It’s really different this time. I ended up not using anything from the previous (two – sigh) first drafts. The story focuses on Shay, Melie, Wils Bailey (THE Bailey from Bailey’s Irish Space Station), the station, Herog (and peripherally Cady), and on … Continue reading →
I’m doing some rearranging of the site. I’ll be adding links to what I’m creating. Aside from semi-regular posts in the blog and the occasional new writing article or fiction snippet, I’ve been running the blog along for years without doing much with it. But here’s the thing: I’m back to writing new fiction every weekday. I’m back to writing … Continue reading →
Someone forwarded me a deep space transmission that suggests my old friend Cadence Drake is in more trouble than usual. You might know Cady. Spaceship pilot, independent finder of lost things out in settled space? Has mad skills in locating people? And trouble? No? Well, my unknown ally has said I’ll receive all the interceptions findable that run from the bounty hunter tracking … Continue reading →
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 way to pieces of the … Continue reading →
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 fantasy.” You sign up and … Continue reading →
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 Really Spiffy Thing For Writers … Continue reading →
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 finding the meaning behind Bashtyk … Continue reading →
Just the link. Still have a ton of work to do before I sleep. … Continue reading →
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 other AIs like her in … Continue reading →
