Author: KenMcConnell

March Kindle Sales Recap

March 2010 was my most successful month since first putting my books on the Kindle in March of 2008. Here is a year-by-year March recap for Starstrikers:  March 2008 – 4 Each for $5.60, March 2009 – 2 Each for…

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Naming Androids

I was reading the latest business book from 37signals last night on my Droid, and it occurred to me that the number they used in their company name is the name of one of my android characters – Thirty-seven. This…

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Genre Influences

Lately I’ve been reading the Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov. I may have read it as a teenager, but I could not recall, so I’m reading it again. One thing I have noticed is how similar the series is to…

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Droid in our house

I could no longer wait for the Nexus One on Verizon.  I had baseball practices and games to be at and I needed my cell phone to cancel them or otherwise coordinate my life.  My cheap, free phone from a…

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TFO Cover Art Pt 3

I just got this latest proof of the Tales from Ocherva Volume One cover from graphic designer Byron McConnell, and had to share it. He’s got all the design elements in place that we talked about last time.  The font is…

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Ubuntu Button Gate

For those of you not following the build up to the release of the latest Ubuntu OS there is a crises looming.  Button Gate!  The new look of the window manager in the next release has changed things around quite…

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TFO Cover Art Pt2

Last time I showed off the rough sketch I did for the cover of my anthology, Tales from Ocherva Volume One.  A collection of Space Western short stories set on the planet Ocherva from the Galaxy Collision universe. Today I’m…

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Gunfighter Android

I was searching for a good cover idea for my next e-book, a collection of my Space Western short stories called, Tales from Ocherva Vol 1.  The head graphics guy at GB PRESS, Byron, sent me some links last night…

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