Continuing with my habit of sketching scenes from my written Work In Progress, here are some sets from the upcoming Starforgers novel. The Senate chambers on Selene are considerably more intimate than in the Star Wars movies. I wanted to… Read More »Sets and Scenes From Starforgers
Sometimes I like to sketch out what my characters look like while I’m creating them for a novel or a short story. I don’t claim to be an artist, just an art hack. But those sketches are useful to me… Read More »Starforgers Character Art
Interstellar travel in the time before the Great War was limited to long journeys with nuclear powered starships. The military began experimenting with tunnel drive starships and production on them was just getting started when the war broke. The first… Read More »Early Fleet Starships
Primary starfighter of the Votainion Armadas at the start of the Great War. The Eight-wing earned it’s name from the shape of the cut outs on it’s wing. The wing is a cooling surface for the ion engine as well… Read More »The Eight-Wing
Or at least the first draft of an outline. This being for my next novel, Starforgers. Because the web is a visual medium, here are some visual proofs of my labor. I did the outline in Google docs as a… Read More »Starforgers Outline Completed
I’m still messing with the plot outline for Starforgers. Discovering new aspects of the story and some of the characters in it as I work out the various story lines. This is a grand old style of Space Opera, with… Read More »Plotting Update
There is no denying that a lot of thought goes into designing a book cover. From font type to cover art many elements have to converge into a design that makes the reader want to pick it up and that… Read More »Book Cover Thoughts
Introduction Writing a Space Opera is no trivial task. It challenges you on so many levels. You have to create an interesting and deep universe to play in and then you have to fill it will fascinating characters with compelling… Read More »Starting a Novel, Part 2