After finishing the first draft of The Blood Empress, I put it down for a while and reset my barrings for The Rising. Having let the The Rising sit for over a month now, I picked it up this week… Read More »Reading, Outlining and Testing
I had only one short story published last year in ESciFi magazine and I released no new novels. Operation Stay Under the Radar of Readers was a huge success. Sales of my back list have trickled down to nothing. I’ve… Read More »End Of Year Report
As of last night, I think I’m done with the First Draft of The Blood Empress. There are 44,270 words total which break down into four acts like this: ACT ONE: 11,886 ACT TWO: 13,219 ACT THREE: 11,690 ACT FOUR:… Read More »Draft One Complete – The Blood Empress
This past weekend my brother Byron was in town with is digital camera. We took many pics of the models I constructed for the next Star Saga book cover. Below are some of our untouched pics. We shot them during… Read More »KIV-3 Photo Shoot
My oldest son turns thirteen today and thus becomes a teenager. Happy Birthday Jack!
This is the final post for the KIV-3 model. The only thing left to do to the model was weather it. It sounds kind of odd to be weathering a spaceship, but even in space there are things to run… Read More »KIV-3 Cover Shot Build Part 6
If you are a writer, be you unpublished, published in the traditional manner, an ardent Indie publisher or even a mix of Indie and Traditional, you will learn something from this book. I rarely do book recommendation posts but sometimes… Read More »Write. Publish. Repeat.
Cockpit Painting Last time I started adding more details to the cockpit area. This time I finished that off and painted the entire cockpit and dash. The interior is a flat gray and the dash is flat black. I weathered… Read More »KIV-3 Cover Shot Build Part 5