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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: Starstrikers Universe
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 [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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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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Silicant Remorse Free Short Story
This weekend’s free Kindle short story is “Silicant Remorse“. If you download that story, it includes a second short story called, “Rock Collection”. Rock Collection is my most successful short story. It has been read by over 3,000 people and also holds the unique distinction of being my most rejected story of all time. Nobody [...]
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Tagged Free short story, Kindle, sci-fi, SF
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Busy This Week
Not much in the way of blogging for me this week. Baseball games have kicked in and I can’t even remember my name after a game. My short story is out to beta readers and I already have a new structure worked out for it based on the weak ending of draft one, I just [...]
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Novel Update
Last week I had another loss of words due to my inability to figure out backing up on cloud drives. The process always makes me mad and it takes me a while to get over it and get back to writing, or in most cases, rewriting. This week I started a short story that I [...]
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The Silicants
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In my Star Trilogy universe, I created a sentient android. This android debuted in this week’s free short story – Silicants Only. The story was a reworking of the very first short story I ever wrote in Junior High School. That story was two pages long and was called The [...]
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