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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: March 2012
Twitter Posts from 2012-03-24 to 2012-03-30
OMG! This is freaking cool. Live wind map! http://t.co/igDaSJYP 2012-03-28
Got toys? Put them to work. http://t.co/DbT9T1Ho 2012-03-28
@johnjosephadams Sometimes folks go on vacation, I'd not wait longer than a week. in reply to johnjosephadams 2012-03-29
Ender's Game movie blog, via IO9. http://t.co/dHiFrwqz 2012-03-29
@cnnbrk Really? Slow news day CNN? in reply to cnnbrk 2012-03-29
@jeremiahtolbert 1 in herd of [...]
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Field Day
Photo Credit: sj carey via Compfight
Field Day. That annual event a week before Opening Day when all the parents and coaches huddle together on cold, wet ball fields and try to make them look good with rusty shovels in one hand and Starbucks cups in the other.
I’ve been attending this annual event every season [...]
Ebook Pricing Normalized
Photo Credit: Johan Larsson via Compfight
My month long vacation in the stratosphere of ebook pricing is over. All of my novels are now $2.99 with the exception of the Mystery novel written under my pen name of Johnny Batch. That one is going to remain at .99 cents for a month or two in [...]
Wind in My Sails Again
Photo Credit: darwin Bell via Compfight
I’ve made my way out of the mid-novel doldrums and my sails are filling out. I’m still only at 46% complete, but I’ve moved out of the funk I was in with the story. Turns out all I needed to do was up the ante by killing someone!
I needed [...]
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Tagged Novel, Starveyors, Writing
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Starfighter in Profile: Spieron
The P-44 Spieron Starfighter from Trestar Aerospace.
The Spieron was the largest mass produced starfighter during the middle of the Great War. It served in every theater of the war and was used by the Surface Army and the Stellar Fleet. After a rocky period of instability when it was first released to front line units, [...]
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Tagged Star Trilogy, Starfighter, Starfighters, Starstrikers
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The Bugatti 100 Race Plane
I was surfing through Deviant Art this weekend and found some pretty cool computer renderings of airplanes. One in particular really struck me as clean and elegant. Then I looked at what the artist had named it – Bugatti 100. What? He named an airplane after a race car maker? That’s crazy.
So I looked up [...]
Where are the Hugo Ebooks
I first started reading Sci-Fi in the late 1970′s. But I didn’t read too many of the Hugo award winning books of that day. I read my favorites and the stuff that interested me at the time. But now I’m in my late forties and I write my own SF novels. As someone who writes in [...]
Twitter Posts from 2012-03-17 to 2012-03-23
Sunrise this morning in West Boise. http://t.co/3nQCyWvd 2012-03-22
Listening to The Big Bach Set on my Nexus phone. Tons of ear candy for only a buck. http://t.co/MinxYSCU 2012-03-22
I could probably get behind a new Buck Rogers. http://t.co/GoNfKCvj 2012-03-22
Local state government acting idiotic again, passing laws to restrict Ham antennas. Really? @KTVBKelsey H0511 2012-03-22
Copyright Math, Ted [...]
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Starforgers Reviewed
My novel Starforgers got reviewed this week by Jake Scholl on his blog – Goblins, Swords, Elves, Oh My! Jake has reviewed several of my books in the past and he enjoyed Starforgers. Please stop by and read what he has to say about it. No spoilers included in the review.
Posted in Blogging, Fiction, Promotion, Starforgers, Starstrikers Universe
Tagged Book reviews, Starforgers
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Irish Spring Scrimmage
This is my oldest son’s Majors team, the Notre Dame Irish warming up for their first scrimmage of the year. Jack is in the middle catching a throw. The boy to the left of screen is one of the kids from my youngest son’s team, the Oregon State Beavers. Chasten is our star player and [...]
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