Author Archives: KenMcConnell

My Norwescon 35 Schedule

Posted on February 21, 2012 by KenMcConnell

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 [...]

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Sci-Fi TV

Posted on February 20, 2012 by KenMcConnell

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

Posted on February 19, 2012 by KenMcConnell

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

Posted on February 18, 2012 by KenMcConnell

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

Posted on February 17, 2012 by KenMcConnell

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. [...]

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Thoughts on Concluding a Trilogy

Posted on February 16, 2012 by KenMcConnell

As I write the final book in the Star Trilogy, I’m having to finalize ideas that have been in my head for years. I think this book will be somewhat jarring for readers of this loose trilogy of books. But I’m not going to shrink from writing the kind of book that needs to be [...]

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Being a Fringe Genre Writer

Posted on February 14, 2012 by KenMcConnell

I started seriously writing SF about three years ago. I got lucky with my first few sales pretty early. I never made it out of the fringes though, no sales to the big genre magazines. But in writing those short stories I realized that I was not a horrible writer and that maybe writing books [...]

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Twitter Posts from 2012-02-04 to 2012-02-10

Posted on February 11, 2012 by KenMcConnell

Do you Self-Publish? Please take this survey. http://t.co/5iIPGPCT 2012-02-08
I need to blog about Kindle Select more often, apparently. A flood of sudden visits today. http://t.co/66IXL5v6 2012-02-08
Kimbra. Wow! Amazing video and song. http://t.co/7SJPVKAk 2012-02-08
Wow, wish I had $1,400 bucks to blow on a laptop. Shinny. http://t.co/2nEtQCHI 2012-02-08
@jelo45110 Yeah, but I can't ever afford, my precious. in [...]

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Red Allen on Kindle Select

Posted on February 10, 2012 by KenMcConnell

My Sci-Fi short story, Red Allen, is FREE for today and tomorrow on Kindle Select. This is one of my favorite stories about the legendary test pilot from the novel Starforgers. Set on an arctic starbase where Red must discover why a venerable starfighter is having mechanical problems.

This is also the kick off of my [...]

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Featured Inspirational Art, 9 Feb 2012

Posted on February 9, 2012 by KenMcConnell

Proof that I have absolutely no shame, today’s picture is a washed out Kodachrome shot of myself at age 13 with several of my giant cardboard starship models.
These models were built from carpet roll tubes and store bought poster board. They were decorated with bits of model parts. Do you like that Luke Skywalker hair [...]

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