This weekend I started writing my fourth novel. It is the prequel to Starstrikers and it will be called Starforgers. This novel was attempted many years ago and then abandoned. I used the opening that I already had written when… Read More »Writing Commences
Often times I will have moments of inspiration while doing mundane chores. The other day, it happened while I was in the shower. This is a well documented phenomenon that most people have experienced. But strangely enough it was completely… Read More »Inspirational Shower
Filling in the outline for Starforgers is coming along at a leisurely pace. I’m supposed to be finishing up the final draft of Tyrmia, so that has priority right now. Back to the outline. I do my outlining in a… Read More »A More Detailed Outline
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
At the start of the Great War, the newly minted Alliance military had very few operational starfighters. Since the deep space fleet concept was still new, only two such warships were built and of those two, only the SS Sokol… Read More »Early Alliance Starfighters
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
In keeping with my blatantly open policy, here are the numbers for all three of my Kindle books for the past two months. Starstrikers and Null_Pointer are selling for $.99 and TFO is selling for $2.99. June Starstrikers: 193 Tales… Read More »Kindle Sales Numbers
Having just completed the first rough draft of an outline for Starforgers, the prequel to Starstrikers, I thought I’d share how I outline a new novel. This is by no means the only way to outline a novel. A quick… Read More »Outlining A Novel