Author: KenMcConnell

Twitter Posts from 2013-05-18 to 2013-05-24

New post: GCU Sokol on Starship Modeler's Free Desktop for May http://t.co/F35rgKEeLF 2013-05-19 Google-built media player hits the FCC, reveals only a Hitchhiker's Guide reference http://t.co/znHsdWuQST 2013-05-19 In theater for Star Trek. Don't spoil the ending. 2013-05-19 Don't forget to…

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Thirty Percent Complete

My current Work In Progress (WIP), the first draft of Starforgers Book 2, The Rising, is now 30% complete. After a lengthy pause last month to get the paperback versions of the Star Saga published, I’m now moving back into…

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Twitter Posts from 2013-05-11 to 2013-05-17

The Russians landed in Mt. Home! ;-) Looks the same as Southwest Idaho. 2013-05-13 New post: STARFORGERS – Chapter 29 http://t.co/0uy4btRZrJ 2013-05-14 New post: Paperbacks! http://t.co/I8njKsmn8l 2013-05-14 I wonder if there are any astronauts who are closet SF writers? They…

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Paperbacks!

I keep forgetting to talk about this, but two of the Star Saga books are available now as paperbacks. Starforgers and Starstrikers are both just $9.99 on Amazon. Starveyors will be available at the end of this month for the…

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STARFORGERS – Chapter 29

“This marked the first time an android was used to translate between humans and Votainions. As the war progressed, android translators became standard issue in the Fleet. At first they used linguistic enhanced standard models for translators, but eventually humans…

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Twitter Posts from 2013-04-27 to 2013-05-03

@steveumstead I'm curious how you like reading on the Kindle Paperwhite. in reply to SteveUmstead 2013-04-30 @jeremiahtolbert Great job on the SFWA site! Very clean and easy to navigate. 2013-04-30 @jeremiahtolbert Also, it looks perfect in my Galaxy Nexus phone….

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Progress Report – The Rising, Modelling

Getting through the first draft of The Rising is proving harder than I anticipated. Primarily for two reasons. The first is because this novel’s on the opposite side of the thrills and chills dial than Starforgers. That’s not to say…

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Twitter Posts from 2013-04-20 to 2013-04-26

Purchased some books from Amazon; Eragon Series, Ack-Ack Macaque and World-Building for SF Writers. Something for the kids and me. 2013-04-24 I'm excited for the release of new Ubuntu tomorrow. You upgrading? 2013-04-24 I have my Dell XPS 13 running…

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The Latest Plume Creator

Regular readers of my blog know that I write my novels and stories on a Linux laptop. I use the Ubuntu operating system and the program that I use for writing is Plume Creator. This week the programmer behind Plume…

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