My friend Katrina does a recurring blog feature called Prime Writing, and the latest installment features some dorky dude who wrote a novel about spaceships and stuff:
http://www.katrinaarcher.com/journal/2013/06/24/prime-writing-marko-kloos/
You may want to check it out. Said dorky dude talks a bit about his novel and how it came about.
LOL, not the genesis I was expecting, but it worked out pretty well… 🙂
loved your novel ,any more in store with these characters?
“I didn’t want to go with yet another attempt at Generic High Fantasy Novel #291 (“Now With 100% More High Elves! At Least Three Apostrophes Per Name GUARANTEED!”)”
Don’t forget my free million dollar idea – a race of aliends called the Shi’thead.