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The Safe Cracker
Short Story
A man who cracks open safes as a side job, gets sucked into a deadly crime spree by a woman posing as legitimate safe owner. This short story features Detective Bill Plait from Null Pointer, A Joshua Jones Mystery by Johnny Batch.My Novels
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Back in Scrivener
My current WIP – Starveyors started life in Scrivener and then I broke it out and went manual with it, using FocusWriter. Recently I reformatted my old Macbook with both Linux and Mac OS. I was using the Linux side exclusively and things were okay, except for the touchpad. It became too twitchy to use [...]
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Unseen Art of a Novel
Many times while producing a novel I’ve had artwork generated that was never seen in the final production. Some of that art was intended for covers, some of it was intended to help me keep things straight in my head, like maps and some of it was just me doodling with a pencil.
Below are some [...]
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Twitter Posts from 2012-02-18 to 2012-02-24
My youngest just emailed me a video of his brother being silly. Good to see he's using my old Droid. :-) 2012-02-22
Do you like Space Opera? Space pirates? Space battles? You might be a perfect match for Starforgers. http://t.co/hM4FR6Lv 2012-02-22
ASUS gives Transformer Prime a bootloader unlock tool, Ubuntu promptly ported http://t.co/7uguJFtG via @engadget 2012-02-22
Minor (but [...]
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Baseball Season
Both of my readers of this blog who were here before last year know this already, but if you’re new around these parts, you may not be aware of how involved I am with youth baseball. For the next four months I will be eating at ball parks, coaching and watching nothing but baseball. I [...]
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My Norwescon 35 Schedule
I’ll be attending Seattle’s Norwescon 35 this April. You can see me on three panels there. I’m mostly free on Saturday, so if you see me hanging around, do introduce yourself!
Here’s my schedule for the panels I’m on:
Friday 7 pm Cascade 6
Changing Star Wars
Do creators have the right to change their work after it has [...]
Sci-Fi TV
Last night I watched the premier of Stephen Hawking’s Sci-Fi Masters series on the Science Channel. Is it just me, or has the best Sci-Fi on TV gone from the Scyfy Channel to the Science Channel? Before the show last night Sci Channel was playing Firefly episodes with teasers in between by Michio Kaku! How awesome is that?
Anyway, [...]
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Pine Wood Derby Car Weekend
I didn’t do much on the book or my blog or even the internet this weekend. I spent a good bit of time hanging with my son, making Pine Wood Derby cars. His is going to be a Lego firetruck and mine is a WW2 Aircraft Carrier. I know, how cool are they?
We are by [...]
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Twitter Posts from 2012-02-11 to 2012-02-17
I really enjoyed the second half of the BSU BB game last night. Great effort by the team to win it. 2012-02-16
Good to see OSX catching up to Ubuntu. The cross-pollination continues. http://t.co/8sFGwZzp 2012-02-16
@valrobertson Can you send me a link to that article you mentioned? in reply to valrobertson 2012-02-16
@valrobertson Thanks! in reply to valrobertson [...]
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Kindle Select Numbers for January
Last month I experimented with two of my novels by putting them in the Kindle Select program and offering them for free for the maximum amount of days. Now that I have January’s numbers, I thought I’d share them.
The Kindle Select program is by far the most effective advertising I’ve ever done for my ebooks. [...]
Blog Commenting Back On
My experiment with turning off blog comments is over. I don’t think it did any good at all. While my hits are up in the time since I turned off commenting, I don’t think it has anything to do with the comments being off. I think it has more to do with my social presence [...]