I recently found this Star Saga short story about a starfighter pilot with a passion for Opera in my file system. So here it is for your enjoyment. It’s set in the middle of the Great War, during the Starstrikers… Read More »A Short Story
My employer has laid me off after seven good years of service due to work force reductions. I’m currently looking for a new day job. You can find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-mcconnell-writer/. I live in Boise, Idaho but I’m open… Read More »Available For Hire
When you’re just halfway through the year and so much bad has happened, I guess it’s inevitable that the year itself has become a meme. A shortcut for all the calamity and suffering that has happened of late. All I… Read More »2020 Now A Meme
So what to do when you’re trapped at home and can’t get out to explore one of the prettiest states in the union? Sit at home and start wriitng another book, I guess. I took a few weeks to plot… Read More »Quarentine Days
Because this starship was going to be white, I used gray primer on it. This was done with common, everyday car primer from a spray can. Nothing fancy. I use a drop cloth on my driveway and wear a mask… Read More »Ostrov Warship Build, Part 3
The large white colored pieces used as the bridge and forward hull are discarded 3D printed parts from our model lab at work. No idea what they were intended to be for. If you work on computers, you will see… Read More »Ostrov Warship Build, Part 2
I decided to paint this model silver, to make it different from all the other ships in this universe. Silver models start off life with a flat black primer. For this one I used a rattle can. Below is the… Read More »Sultran Warship Build, Part 3
At some point I decided that I really needed a way to mount this model, if it was going to be used for a book cover. So I had to cut a block of RenShape and fit it inside the… Read More »Sultran Warship Build, Part 2
It took me two and half months to finish the final novella of the Destroyer Trilogy – Letting Go. My goal is to finish the draft by March. Now I’m cleaning up and editing all three Destroyer books. My brother… Read More »Writing Progress Report
Just as I’m crazy enough to write an entire trilogy at once, I’m building two book cover models at the same time. This one being the Sultran Warship from the Destroyer Trilogy. The Ostrov system is where our heroes are… Read More »Sultran Warship Build – Part 1