Author: KenMcConnell

A Sneak Peek at Devon’s Blade

  Pre-order it from Amazon now. Launch date is Halloween. http://www.amazon.com/Devons-Blade-Ken-McConnell-ebook/dp/B015Y01CO8   The morning mission was not intended to be a revenge killing, but I knew that’s what was on everyone’s mind, especially Katya’s. I let her lead to test…

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Free Short Story Ebook

To celebrate the release of my first novella, Devon’s Blade, I’m offering a free short story. Ambush! is set on Kew and is the antithesis of Devon’s Blade in that we see life from the Votainion side. What it’s like to…

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Novella Pre-Release Coverage

I’ve been doing some pre-release advertising for my new novella, Devon’s Blade. Mostly this consists of using images of my starfighter models and posting them to Twitter and Google+. I’m trying hard not to be annoying and using the imagery…

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Testing, testing, is this mic on?

Just seeing if I can make a picture appear from Google Photos. I’ve switched to Flickr. Goodbye Google Photos.

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Spieron Starfighter Build, Part 1

This is the primary starfighter during the Starstrikers Trilogy or middle time period of my Star Saga series. It was first sketched on paper by myself probably twenty years ago. I built a cardboard model of it about a decade…

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Lunch Time Writing

Lunch is my most productive time to write, edit and do things like create an epub of what I’ve written.

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Google Image Test Post

So, my links to my own Google images are not working here. Trying to figure out why. Apparently I have to jump through more hoops to get my damn Google Photos onto the blog. I have no time to retrofit…

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Writing Update Mid-September 2015

I just got the edits for the Devon’s Blade novella back and I’m already deep into them. There seem to be fewer issues with this one than previous books I’ve written. If I can get this one corrected and proofed…

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Building the Renoke, Part 8

Painting continues with the bridge getting a flat gray color via my trusty airbrush. I purposely didn’t cut the fiber optics so that after painting, I can trim them and not have them covered with paint. I chose a darker…

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Building the Renoke, Part 7

The last two areas to detail are the top of the bridge and the bridge itself. Nearly all of the parts I used for these areas are from the same model kit – the HEMTT Gun Truck 1/35 from Italeri….

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