As you can see on the progress bar on the right side, the draft for DESCENT is complete at 101% of projected word count. I’d say that’s a landing smack in the middle of the touchdown zone. Now it goes off to the editor, and I get to do the traditional brain rinse where I…
Category: writing.
15SEP23
As you can see from the progress bar, the draft for DESCENT is moving along steadily. I write faster the further I get into the book, and especially once I reach the last quarter, so I expect to be finished in another two weeks or so. Then it goes off to the developmental editor, and…
17AUG23
I don’t have much to report because I am busy pushing this draft along (as you can see on the progress meter in the sidebar), so have a picture of a Dinky Dog in her favorite habitat–a cozy dog bed in a kitchen where there’s food preparation in progress. I’m a slow correspondent at the…
SCORPIO release date change
Some readers have noticed that the release date for SCORPIO has been moved out to January 1, 2024. There’s a reason for that change, one that I can’t reveal just yet. But I can tell you that good things are happening behind the scenes that will make the new date make sense once I am…
11JUL23
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e. the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e. the standards of thought) no longer exist.” –Hannah Arendt, “The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Work in progress status update
The edits for SCORPIO are done, and I’ve started work on DESCENT, Palladium Wars #4. My plan is to turn in the draft by the end of July for a release in the first half of next year. I installed a progress bar widget for WordPress, so now you can all follow along as I…
ODDMENTS update
The paperback version of ODDMENTS is now live on the Amazon page. Fun fact: at 121,000 words and 521 print pages, it’s bigger than any of my novels. (The one that comes closest is CHAINS OF COMMAND at 114,000 words.)
Terms of Enlistment is 10
Put on your party hats, because we have a birthday to celebrate. TERMS OF ENLISTMENT is ten years old this month. I brought it out in March 2013, and 47North bought it (and the second Frontlines novel, LINES OF DEPARTURE) in May of that year. Thanks to everyone who has ever bought this book…
My two favorite words to write
This is the part of the novel that the reader hates to read and the writer loves to write. Whenever I type those two words, it’s like a permission slip for my brain to let go of something that has occupied it every day for the better part of a year. I just turned in…
An end-of-year update
Today is the winter solstice, which means the year is pretty much in the bag, so I figured I should do an update because all the cool kids are doing a 2022 recap. It was a mixed bag of a year for me. I am currently working on getting the next novel out of the…