Category: The Longview
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The Big Week of Fiction Only includes Getting My Ass Kicked
Monday morning… Wild Optimism. Will have Vipers’ Nest done by end of day Tuesday. Seven hours in, I was only a short way into the new bug-hunter’s sheet I’d started. Tuesday morning… Well, I’ll surely at least be finished with this one bug-hunter’s questions by the end of today. Seven hours later, I’d finished one…
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So today I built the Bug-Hunter edition of Longview 5
Today I spent three Patreon hours putting together the bug-hunter version of Longview 5: The One With The Broken Title. This involved cleaning up a significant amount of weird formatting in Scrivener — (my fault) — moving the project into .docx, then opening it in Vellum and doing the actual book formatting, setting and revising…
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Longview 5 is DONE! (But isn’t Vipers’ Nest anymore)
I’m going to need some beta readers for the story that was going to be Vipers’ Nest. So much changed in the writing of it that the Vipers’ Nest in that title turned into a side plot, and the title no longer fits. As I mention in the afterword (written just a few minutes ago)…
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Finished the revision of Vipers’ Nest!
It’s done! It feels like I’ve been working on Vipers’ Nest forever. I can’t believe it, but it’s finally fully and completely revised, and I LOVE the way it came out. This has been a brutal project, because it hit in the middle of personal chaos, website chaos, GDPR chaos… And for the longest time,…
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Three hours of writing, and the third first draft of Vipers’ Nest is now done!
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…
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Site updates to reflect what I’m doing as a writer
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…
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Cady has a bounty hunter on her trail.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…