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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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Free Short Story on Kindle
You may or may not be aware that I sometimes dabble in the Mystery genre. Today and tomorrow you can sample that side of me, as written under my pen name – Johnny Batch; by getting The Safe Cracker for free on Kindle. The story features Detective Bill Plait from my novel, Null Pointer.
This is [...]
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Tagged crime story, Free short story, johnny batch, Mystery, Null Pointer
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How I Use Scrivener to Write a Novel Part One
When you are first starting out writing a novel and are not set in your ways, you tend to look closely at how other writers ply their craft. This includes how they structure their novels and what software programs they use. Every writer is different and we all have our own way of doing things. [...]
Silicant Technology
I was searching images of fractals on a lark one afternoon, and came across the art of Krzysztof Marczak on DeviantArt.com. This polish artist has used a Mandelbrot rendering program to make some amazing 3D images.
You’ll have to click on them to make them bigger so you can appreciate the intricate details. This is exactly [...]
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Writing Books I’m Reading
Every writer should be constantly reading about his craft or taking classes on improving his writing skills. This year I blew my budget on going to Norwescon, so I won’t be doing any more seminars. But that doesn’t mean I won’t be learning. Here are some of the books on my Kindle that I’ve been [...]
Interconnected Stories Problem
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For the past few months my Star Trilogy novels have been selling pretty steady. Nothing to get all excited about, but nothing to sneeze at either. At the same time, free downloads of short stories set in the same universe are dwindling. One would expect a bit of trickle down from those [...]
Posted in Blogging, Fiction, Short Story, Starforgers, Starstrikers, Starstrikers Universe, Starveyors, Tyrmia, Writing
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Twitter Posts from 2012-05-05 to 2012-05-11
Cancri e light discovered. http://t.co/Mp2XorEL 2012-05-10
New post: CopperWire's Earthbound Space Opera Ablum http://t.co/4bvwPsgb 2012-05-10
Thanks to all of you who stopped by to read my Ubuntu review on the blog yesterday! 2012-05-10
@valmroberts As if, you require computer support. I know you! ;-) in reply to valmroberts 2012-05-10
@valmroberts ROFL! I know what you mean. in reply to [...]
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Free Short Story On Kindle
This week’s free Kindle short story is Ocherva. An origins story about Stellar Ranger Devon Ardel’s first day on the desert moon. If you have read Starforgers, you will be familiar with Devon and her Rangers. This is where Devon’s Devils started.
The story was first published in the anthology Barren Worlds edited by Eric T. [...]
CopperWire’s Earthbound Space Opera Album
As lyrics from the song Mahalia Einstein suggest, “If I can just get you to step out of your comfort zone, we would be closer, closer,” you might find this hip-hop/jazz album to be quite entertaining and at times, very poignant if you just give it a try. I was alerted to this new album [...]
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Twitter Posts from 2012-04-28 to 2012-05-04
Wow, I actually don't have to keep checking the weather radar on the way to tonight's game. 2012-05-02
@shaunduke Doesn't bother me, as long as it's interesting. LOL But I have to admit that would take some doing. in reply to shaunduke 2012-05-02
New post: Mid-Season Baseball Photo Album http://t.co/JS3kenLL 2012-05-03
Loving the new GIMP 2.8 Single Window [...]
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