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Category Archives: Fiction
My Norwescon 35 Schedule
I’ll be attending Seattle’s Norwescon 35 this April. You can see me on three panels there. I’m mostly free on Saturday, so if you see me hanging around, do introduce yourself!
Here’s my schedule for the panels I’m on:
Friday 7 pm Cascade 6
Changing Star Wars
Do creators have the right to change their work after it has [...]
Kindle Select Numbers for January
Last month I experimented with two of my novels by putting them in the Kindle Select program and offering them for free for the maximum amount of days. Now that I have January’s numbers, I thought I’d share them.
The Kindle Select program is by far the most effective advertising I’ve ever done for my ebooks. [...]
Thoughts on Concluding a Trilogy
As I write the final book in the Star Trilogy, I’m having to finalize ideas that have been in my head for years. I think this book will be somewhat jarring for readers of this loose trilogy of books. But I’m not going to shrink from writing the kind of book that needs to be [...]
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Being a Fringe Genre Writer
I started seriously writing SF about three years ago. I got lucky with my first few sales pretty early. I never made it out of the fringes though, no sales to the big genre magazines. But in writing those short stories I realized that I was not a horrible writer and that maybe writing books [...]
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Red Allen on Kindle Select
My Sci-Fi short story, Red Allen, is FREE for today and tomorrow on Kindle Select. This is one of my favorite stories about the legendary test pilot from the novel Starforgers. Set on an arctic starbase where Red must discover why a venerable starfighter is having mechanical problems.
This is also the kick off of my [...]
Posted in Fiction, Null Pointer, Short Story, Starstrikers Universe
Tagged ken mcconnell, Kindle Select, Null Pointer, Red Allen, Short Story
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Writing Update on Starveyors
I lost a scene again due to using multiple computers on Dropbox. I’m not sure how to prevent this or how its happening, but it sure as heck ticks me off. So today I get to rewrite a scene from Chapter 6. Sometimes that’s a good thing, but mostly it just makes me mad. Not [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Art, Starstrikers, Starstrikers Universe
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Null Pointer Free Today and Tomorrow
My foray into the Mystery genre, Null Pointer, is FREE today and tomorrow. It’s written by my pen name: Johnny Batch. This is not a Science Fiction book. It’s all Mystery. The protagonist is a programmer who investigates the mysterious death of his cubical mate.
If you’re into programming, or just love tech stuff this book will [...]
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Writing Update on Starveyors
This week I wrapped up chapter five of the novel. I need to go into my outline and work up chapter seven, as chapter six is already detailed. There has been a stretch of non-action now for at least a couple of chapters. Plenty of tension and some exposition, but not much action. So for [...]
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Building a Sci-Fi Universe, One Story and Novel at a Time
For the past four years I’ve been writing novels and short stories that are all set in the same fictional universe. My intention is to world build on a galactic scale. My Epic Sci-Fi universe is book ended with the Star Trilogy novels. Each novel is set about 500 years from the other. So that leaves plenty [...]
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