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The Safe Cracker
Short Story
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: Fiction
Free Short Story on Kindle
You may or may not be aware that I sometimes dabble in the Mystery genre. Today and tomorrow you can sample that side of me, as written under my pen name – Johnny Batch; by getting The Safe Cracker for free on Kindle. The story features Detective Bill Plait from my novel, Null Pointer.
This is [...]
Posted in Fiction, Null Pointer, Short Story
Tagged crime story, Free short story, johnny batch, Mystery, Null Pointer
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How I Use Scrivener to Write a Novel Part One
When you are first starting out writing a novel and are not set in your ways, you tend to look closely at how other writers ply their craft. This includes how they structure their novels and what software programs they use. Every writer is different and we all have our own way of doing things. [...]
Interconnected Stories Problem
Natalia Osiatynska via Compfight
For the past few months my Star Trilogy novels have been selling pretty steady. Nothing to get all excited about, but nothing to sneeze at either. At the same time, free downloads of short stories set in the same universe are dwindling. One would expect a bit of trickle down from those [...]
Posted in Blogging, Fiction, Short Story, Starforgers, Starstrikers, Starstrikers Universe, Starveyors, Tyrmia, Writing
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Free Short Story On Kindle
This week’s free Kindle short story is Ocherva. An origins story about Stellar Ranger Devon Ardel’s first day on the desert moon. If you have read Starforgers, you will be familiar with Devon and her Rangers. This is where Devon’s Devils started.
The story was first published in the anthology Barren Worlds edited by Eric T. [...]
CopperWire’s Earthbound Space Opera Album
As lyrics from the song Mahalia Einstein suggest, “If I can just get you to step out of your comfort zone, we would be closer, closer,” you might find this hip-hop/jazz album to be quite entertaining and at times, very poignant if you just give it a try. I was alerted to this new album [...]
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Starveyors Update, 23 April 2012
Photo Credit: Oliver Hammond via Compfight
After taking a few weeks off from the novel, I’m back to writing again as of this weekend. Saturday I read through the last few chapters I had written and then that evening I rewrote a scene that I had lost. I think I’ve broken the bla’s and will [...]
Posted in baseball, Fiction, Starstrikers Universe, Starveyors
Tagged baseball, Novel, Writing
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Free Kindle Short Story – War Stories
Today and Saturday you can download my short story – War Stories for free on Kindle. This experimental short tells the stories of three human soldiers who fought in The Great War between the Alliance and the Votainion Empire. The stories are taken from the Life Recorders implanted in the soldiers and each person is [...]
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Tagged Kindle Select, sci-fi, SF, Short Story
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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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Mary Robinette Kowal Boise Signing
Mary Robinette Kowal is coming to Boise as part of her moving to Chicago book tour! She’ll be at the Rediscovered Books on 8th Street, Tuesday, the 24th of April. Please come down and meet this rising star of the Sci-Fi and have her sign copies of her books.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to say [...]
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Tagged Boise, Mary Robinette Kowal, Rediscovered Books, Signing
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