Author: KenMcConnell

Ebook Novel Length

Benoît Meunier via Compfight I’m currently writing my fifth novel, Starveyors. It will primarily be an ebook only novel. There will eventually be a paperback version, but most readers will read it and purchase it as an ebook. So it doesn’t…

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Coming Down the Stretch

* raymond via Compfight My novel in progress – Starveyors, had just passed 50K words which in layman’s terms means writing the book has come around the final turn and is heading down the stretch to the finish line. Important…

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Twitter Posts from 2012-06-16 to 2012-06-22

Writer Derek J Canyon on How Much E-authors Make Per Hour/Word. http://t.co/55kV0GPx 2012-06-21 SF Author William Hertling's blog is great for computer science nerds too! http://t.co/l7zoaLR1 2012-06-21 Mixed Bag http://t.co/huS6szxO 2012-06-21 Free Short Story On Kindle http://t.co/B0xbN6T2 2012-06-22 How I…

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What’s a Silicant?

In my Space Opera series of novels and short stories I write about androids quite a bit. If you enjoy that sort of Asimovian exploration of what would happen if androids became sentient, you will certainly like my stories. best…

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New Pa’adhe Story Up

voyageAnatolia.blogspot.com via Compfight My writer friend Bill Blohm has posted a new short story in his Pa’adhe Series today. It’s called Dreamland. I’m one of Bill’s Beta readers and I have to say, I really love this series of short…

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Stepping on the Gas

Barry_Adams via Compfight You can’t get to the finish line without burning some gas. You can’t finish your novel without burning some midnight oil. Or in my case, some lunch hours. Yesterday I spent my lunch hour writing my novel….

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Twitter Posts from 2012-06-09 to 2012-06-15

@mattstaggs Waiting for someone to cut that dock up, ship it east a few hundred miles and then use it somewhere in Boise. LOL in reply to mattstaggs 2012-06-13 Explore the best new artists and maybe find a new favorite…

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The Renoke

The Renoke was my first short story sale to an online magazine. It’s a Shaggy Dog story where the payoff is in the punchline at the end. I didn’t realize that was what I had written until someone mentioned it…

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