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The Safe Cracker
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A man who cracks open safes as a side job, gets sucked into a deadly crime spree by a woman posing as legitimate safe owner. This short story features Detective Bill Plait from Null Pointer, A Joshua Jones Mystery by Johnny Batch.My Novels
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Category Archives: Art
Silicant Technology
I was searching images of fractals on a lark one afternoon, and came across the art of Krzysztof Marczak on DeviantArt.com. This polish artist has used a Mandelbrot rendering program to make some amazing 3D images.
You’ll have to click on them to make them bigger so you can appreciate the intricate details. This is exactly [...]
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Happy Birthday Byron
Today is my “little” brother’s birthday. He’s only two years younger than me, so I won’t mention his advanced youth. Just wanted to let you folks know so you can send him your happy birthday wishes.
Byron’s the one who has been making the majority of my book covers over the past few years; both the [...]
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XiniX Cover
This is the first sketch I’ve done of the cover for my next novel, XiniX. The book will be written after I finish and publish Starveyors later this year. So look for it fall of 2013.
I just did this real fast on a piece of scratch paper. It’s not perfect in any way, except that [...]
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The Bugatti 100 Race Plane
I was surfing through Deviant Art this weekend and found some pretty cool computer renderings of airplanes. One in particular really struck me as clean and elegant. Then I looked at what the artist had named it – Bugatti 100. What? He named an airplane after a race car maker? That’s crazy.
So I looked up [...]
Spaceship Camouflage
I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of camouflage on starships. When I was in college, I had a collection of Star Trek models, the old-school original series versions, back when they were affordable. I painted one of my modified Enterprises with the disruption camouflage used by allied battleships in the North Atlantic during WW2. [...]
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Unseen Art of a Novel
Many times while producing a novel I’ve had artwork generated that was never seen in the final production. Some of that art was intended for covers, some of it was intended to help me keep things straight in my head, like maps and some of it was just me doodling with a pencil.
Below are some [...]
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Featured Inspirational Art, 9 Feb 2012
Proof that I have absolutely no shame, today’s picture is a washed out Kodachrome shot of myself at age 13 with several of my giant cardboard starship models.
These models were built from carpet roll tubes and store bought poster board. They were decorated with bits of model parts. Do you like that Luke Skywalker hair [...]
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Featured Inspirational Art, 7 Feb 2012
If you have read my novel Starveyors, you may recall this starfighter. An earlier version of this one, the A-9, was featured in that novel. This model was built from cardboard and bits of spare plastic pieces including a glue bottle cap and a Chapstick cap. Photograph by Bill Blohm.
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Desktop Modelling
Thought I’d share some pics of the new, smaller GCU Sokol model. First up, a size comparison, so you know why I decided to scale down.
Now for a few close ups. First up are the details that will go on top of the engines.
Next up is of course the bottom of the engines. I have [...]
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Scaling Down My Models
I’ve decided to scale down my efforts at building more starship models. The epic size of the GCU Sokol model has made working on it a real problem. The damned thing is just too freaking big for my house. It has been relegated to the garage for all of its life, because moving it inside [...]
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