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  • Fire Race Launched

    Be cool, dude. You’ve done this before. You have a new book. Wrong punctuation. Make it more personal, because it is.  I have a new book! Fire Race, the sequel to my scifi novel, Firewatcher is launched! It’s available on Amazon, and has been for days. As of less than an hour ago, as I…

  • Shared social media post Oct 26 2024

    I guess I’ve started working on the sequel to the sequel already. Euphoria in Beauty Laid down to take a nap.Closed my eyes.Minutes later I had to get upbecause an outline for the sequel to Fire Race(which is the sequel to Firewatcher)came to mind. The phrase that did it – Euphoria in Beauty. Hard to…

  • Almost A Week Off

    Almost A Week Off It’s been a week. Fire Race was officially published last week. I’m done! Ha. I’ve mentioned before that this begins the never-finished phase of writing a book: telling everyone about it. But not yet. I’ve been mentioning it every day online, but that only takes about ten minutes. There’s a lot…

  • Fire Race Is Published

    “Congratulations!” (to me) “You finished your book! Time to take some time off.” Oh, if only it was so. Well, maybe a little celebration. I slept in an hour. But yes, Fire Race, the sequel to Firewatcher, my science fiction series about humans escaping a threatening AI apocalypse, is done and available on Amazon. And,…

  • Submission Day – Firewatchers Sequel

    (This may be a long post because it was an important event.) Some days just demand chocolate. Pardon me as I chase those few bites with a few sips of tea. Ah. OK. Ta Da – I think. Today, I submitted my manuscript and cover for my next book. KDP approved. The proof copy is…

  • The Eighth Draft – Firewatchers Sequel

    I’ve never had this happen before. Persistently working along, and suddenly realizing there’s nothing left on the to-do list. Done? How? Wha? When? Now? OK. The eighth draft of the sequel to Firewatcher is done. That’s the story part, from In The Beginning to Fini. And already, a new to-do list grows. Sometime between now…

  • PTFilmFest 2024

    Writing (and probably posting?) before the event is over? Scandalous. Yet, here I sit, on a chair on a closed-off street, purposely missing one event of many on this four-day film festival in Port Townsend. Maximize utility! Go to everything! Schoomze! Over 800 people. Five different types of passes (see if you can spot them…

  • The Messy Seventh Draft – Firewatchers Sequel

    Shut down the computer. It hadn’t been restarted in weeks. Every draft is precious enough that I keep the files open, the machine turned on, and any other tabs shunted off to other windows. The messy seventh draft is over. The computer deserves a rest. I do, too; but, it’s already mid-September and I’m running…

  • The Sixth Draft – Firewatchers Sequel

    Pardon me as I sip a celebratory drink. The Sixth Draft is done. The sixth draft of Firewatcher’s sequel is done. Another draft? Yes, another draft. This one is a major one. With this draft, the story is done. I could massage this for another year, but I could say that about every book I’ve…

  • The World Catches Up – August 2024

    Well, the world finally caught up to my story again. Firewatcher is a near-future sci-fi story. Conventional wisdom was that many trends would happen circa 2100. I follow trends. I guessed 2040. Then, I started writing the book, realized the trends were happening even sooner, and worked harder and faster at finishing the story. That’s…

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