Dual KIV-3 Model Build Part 1

Sometimes when you build a really cool model in one scale, you start to look around at your collection of junk and realize that you could probably make this model in another scale. You only need this or that greebly…

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Cover Art Search

I somehow got behind the ball on choosing cover art for my novel, The Blood Empress. So now I’m searching through DeviantArt for a suitable piece of cover art. So far, I’ve found two beautiful paintings that could work, but…

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Old School Modeling

Creatives often have more than one interesting hobby. For me, I have always had more hobbies than the time to pursue them. When I was a kid, I build models, took pictures of them and made movies with my friends….

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Weekend Update

Home Renovations We’ve been sinking some money into our home lately. We upgraded to wood floors and recently we upgraded our couch and got new easy chairs and a couple of lamps. These are the first quality of life upgrades…

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The Rising Cover Design

My cover artist and brother, Byron and I are designing the cover for my next novel, The Rising. It’s the second book of the Star Saga and we’re changing things up a bit from the first, fourth and seventh books….

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The Rising Update

Many thanks to my Beta Readers who read The Rising last month and provided me with some outstanding feedback! I’ve completed the spot fixes from the Second Draft and now I’m preparing to start the third and final draft of…

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Model Photography

I’ve been putting serious effort into building detailed plastic models for my book covers. This is an excellent way to bridge two hobbies, writing and modeling. However, I dropped the ball on actually photographing them. So this year I’m getting…

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