Author: KenMcConnell

Writing About Starfighters, Part 1

This is the first part of a long, multi-post series on writing believable starfighters in Military SF and Space Opera. Too often writers don’t have an extensive knowledge of military vehicles and when they write Military SF that involves hardware,…

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David Farland Coming to Boise Area

Author David Farland is coming to Meridian this May, with his two day intensive Write That Novel Seminar. This is a rare opportunity for Boise area writers to attend this class over a weekend without paying for travel expenses. The…

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Military Unit Coins

The covers of all three of my Star Trilogy books have military unit coins on them. Just what are unit coins and why would I want them on covers of Sci-Fi Space Opera novels? online pharmacy flexeril for sale with…

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Twitter Posts from 2012-02-25 to 2012-03-02

@ChuckWendig Good thing you were there, that would have been a school of hard knocks. LOL in reply to ChuckWendig 2012-02-29 Maybe I'm an old crank, but this video confused the heck out of me on Windows 8. http://t.co/ldIVLdrw 2012-02-29…

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February Kindle Numbers

Time once again to disclose the sales numbers for novels and shorts I have on the US market. The UK market was far less and all the other foreign markets resulted in no sales. The novels and the anthology were all…

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Back in Scrivener

My current WIP – Starveyors started life in Scrivener and then I broke it out and went manual with it, using FocusWriter. Recently I reformatted my old Macbook with both Linux and Mac OS. I was using the Linux side…

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Unseen Art of a Novel

Many times while producing a novel I’ve had artwork generated that was never seen in the final production. Some of that art was intended for covers, some of it was intended to help me keep things straight in my head,…

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