As noted previously, the original title for what became Castaway Resolution was Castaway Peril, and dealing with hard-edged science is always a danger. The models and sites ...
2021-09-08 00:37:54 +0000 UTC View PostAnchorcon (https://www.anchorcomicon.com/) is a small Comicon in the resort village of Clayton, NY. They kindly offered to pa...
2021-08-19 11:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn Castaway Resolution (originally titled Castaway Peril), the two groups of castaways on Lincoln find themselves facing a terrible final danger: surviving the impact of a dinosau...
2021-08-06 00:53:33 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, you read that right.
I have been a part of many fandoms over the years, with some of the most enduring being general SF and anime fandom. This has of course led to various works of fan ...
2021-07-07 00:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post... the audio for the Read Me Something rewards recorded; I think I can post them over my vacation, which starts this weekend.
Another reminder -- help push Shadows of Hyperion if you c...
2021-06-24 00:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostThere's nothing you can do to help me more than letting people know about Shadows of Hy...
2021-06-07 12:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostAs with many books, Grand Central Arena went through some changes. The largest obvious change was that the original draft starts with the Holy Grail about ready for launch, whil...
2021-06-04 00:33:26 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement: Shadows of Hyperion is now up!
Request: Please sprea...
2021-05-27 10:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostMost books have components that have been cut from them, and mine are no exception. Often the cuts are material that turned out to be irrelevant, and has no effect on the book once cut.&...
2021-05-16 18:38:56 +0000 UTC View Post... to some new patrons who've come on board in the past few weeks. I hope you'll enjoy what I post (or have posted, since new patrons get access to all the old stuff), and as always, please feel f...
2021-04-25 18:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we continue this look at one of my books in its nascent form, from about thirty years ago (and about twenty years or so before its final version was written).
This chapter is a bit...
2021-04-09 02:11:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe most positive thing I can say about this early draft is that it MOVED. Three chapters in and we're getting to the event that sets everything else in motion.
Otherwise, this is an ex...
2021-03-07 17:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostContinuing our look at the earliest version of the story that became Phoenix Rising -- let's see the first appearance of our villain!
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2021-02-08 21:13:05 +0000 UTC View Post... posted the Read Me Something rewards for the month. I couldn't record the fourth chapter I normally would -- life interfered and then COVID doubled down for life. Hopefully I'll recover and be ...
2021-01-30 23:12:37 +0000 UTC View Post... I have tested positive for COVID-19. Hopefully this will not have a huge effect on my work, but I am pretty much hammered right now.
2021-01-26 01:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostTo my great surprise, this week I discovered a file that has the ORIGINAL draft of Phoenix Rising -- then, of course, called Fall of Saints -- in it.
This is a story written in 1991, al...
2021-01-10 20:03:34 +0000 UTC View Post... over the next few weeks I'm making _Polychrome_ publicly accessible. It's been over a year since I completed reading that novel, and far far longer since I started. Since there's no audiobook o...
2021-01-02 05:05:39 +0000 UTC View PostOriginally, I started Kyri's story much earlier -- gave a glimpse of her family before disasters started in on them. Eventually I realized this slowed the book down, and started trimming and trimmi...
2020-12-02 01:43:18 +0000 UTC View Post
My "Read Me Something" reward series -- the highest reward tier -- has been ongoing ever since the beginning of the Patreon, starting nearly four years ago and now encompassing three books. 2020-11-22 20:35:24 +0000 UTC View Post
There are often a lot of changes between the beginning of a novel or series and its final form. The next few posts here will be looking at the changes between the start of the Balanced Sword series...
2020-11-11 01:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post... their patronage: let me know why, so I know if it's "I can't afford this now" or if it's "I don't like the way Patreon's doing X" or if it's something that I am failing to do as a person runnin...
2020-10-29 14:47:11 +0000 UTC View PostMy computer is sorta-working (needs to have a separate keyboard and mouse plugged in) but that's good enough for now, so I get to do updates!
The first story set on Zarathan, my main epic fan...
2020-10-11 16:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post... and without internet (I'm borrowing this access for a minute). Once that's restored I'll be able to start posting rewards!
... that I welcome any requests or suggestions for appropriate reward material. If there's stuff you're not seeing that you want to see, don't hesitate to let me know!
... I have asked Patreon about the possibility of taking any taxation and similar fees to myself.
Unfortunately, the laws surrounding taxation apparently require that the individual be ...
2020-09-27 20:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostI've been writing in the universe that includes Jason Wood, Demons of the Past, Phoenix, and others for a very long time. Besides figuring out the past, I've also outlined the future of that univer...
2020-09-08 23:59:18 +0000 UTC View Post... to all of you for supporting me. In my current financial state, this isn't just paying for things like covers, it's sometimes paying for things like power bills. I try to keep most of it for my...
2020-09-08 23:34:29 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the great looming mysteries/background events of the Arenaverse is Hyperion -- the secret project that created Marc C. DuQuesne and his friends Oasis, Wu Kung, and others, a cosmic-scale eff...
2020-08-07 00:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis series of posts covers stories for which I have a general idea or even a fairly detailed outline, but for one or more of several reasons I am unsure whether I should or can write it.
... 2020-07-08 01:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post... not only will I be having a Virtual Reading/Release Party for GODSWAR: The Mask of Ares, but also host Joshua Marpet promises an SF trivia quiz with prizes! Join us on Tuesday night