Author: KenMcConnell
Recently I’ve realized that I have a thing for the lowly, wood encased pencil. Not mechanical pencils. Not pens and not colored pencils. It’s not a kink, so relax. It’s just a fascination with the wooden pencil. This new fascination…
All three novellas of the Explorer Trilogy in the Starship Series are now published, both in ebook and paperback on Amazon. This completes the Starship Series on Amazon. Paperback links are below. The ebooks are $2.99 and the paperbacks are…
The final three books of the Starship Series are now available in ebook format from Amazon. Paperback versions coming soon! These books have never been on Amazon before. They’ve been re-edited and re-branded to make it easier to find them….
By Ken McConnell I heard the mechanical shuffle and instinctively knew who was standing before me at my desk. Burnished metal fingers slowly presented a leather-bound ereader to me. The Silicant had already unsuccessfully tried multiple times to get me…
This is the forthcoming new wrap-around cover for the Corvette First Command paperback re-release. Another professional and striking cover from my brother, Byron McConnell. The new covers are built in such a way that there are three sections, back cover,…
Welcome back to the blog for the first post of 2026! This year we’re republishing all the Star Saga books with new edits, updated covers and new branding. It’s a very large project. I spent three months late last year…
Last week I lost my job to a tech company merger. I’m sixty years old and I could retire now, so working a regular job is not something I have to do to get by. Instead, I’m using the next…
By Ken McConnell I saw the blaster discharging blindly into the crowded store. Bodies fell and blood spilled onto the wooden floor. There was a little girl standing near her mother, who had been shot dead by the crazed gunman….
Elysia 1 All that I’ve ever wanted to do was kill bugs. Since I was old enough to carry a toy rifle, I was blasting those nasty creatures in my imagination. Maybe I was just reenacting what I saw in the holograms or pretending…
