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RE the Read Me Something rewards...

... I am having trouble with iMovie (which I produce the videos for the rewards with). It keeps insisting that there's trouble with permissions or else the disk is full, and shuts down. Neither of ...

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A Musical Note: The Dawn of Wisdom (Star Ocean 3, 'Till the End of Time)

The Star Ocean franchise of video games has managed enduring popularity, originally from Enix games and later from the fusion of Squaresoft and Enix, Square-Enix (sometimes whimisically ca...

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A Musical Note: The Silver Surfer's Theme (Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer)

The two Fantastic Four movies in 2005 and 2007 were, in my opinion, well done, except for the glaring and inexplicable failure to understand how to depict Doctor Doom that severely damaged both mov...

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A Musical Note: "Super Strength", Two Steps From Hell

I collect, as one might guess from other things I've mentioned, a lot of soundtracks. This includes trailer music, such as produced by companies like Immediate Music and Two Steps from Hell. Some o...

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A Musical Note: "Trigger Situation", Dirge of Cerberus

As I've mentioned before, often I write scenes inspired by and to the background of a particular piece of music. Perhaps nowhere was this more absolutely true than in the scene in Grand Central...

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All-Patron Reward: Born of Ice, Chapter 4

We continue with my posting of part of the oldest remaining drafts of _Demons of the Past_, this from the later-completely-cut first part of the story, "Born of Ice", which is Sasham Varan's early ...

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A new year begins!

And that also means a new month of rewards for my Patrons!


Welcome several new Patrons -- I hope you enjoy the various rewards you now have access to. As I have said many times bef...

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A Musical Note: Monkey King Released


We continue this irregular series of public posts with "Monkey King Released" from the soundtrack of The Forbidden Kingdom.

The Forbidden Kingdom, a  Western...

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All rewards are up!


Or at least I think so, and if I missed one I expect someone will let me know!

I've also started prep for next month's rewards.


All of you who celebrate at this ti...

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Do me a favor?

While all of you are already helping (and I don't expect more money from you), I have a number of serious financial issues which have led to me setting up a GoFundMe account here:

2018-12-19 02:19:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Welcome new Patrons!

I see we have a couple new Patrons, so welcome to the Patreon! I hope you enjoy the little rewards I can provide. Thank you for your support (and of course another big thank-you to all of you who've b...

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All-Patron Reward: Born of Ice, Chapter 3

We continue our look at one of the early drafts of Demons of the Past, specifically a draft that started decades earlier than the final draft. 

In this particular section, we see a sequence whi...

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The end of the year is here!

And so it's time to start giving out presen^H^H^H^H^H^HPatron rewards, probably starting tonight!

May you all have happy holidays (if you have a holiday this month) and if not, just have a great mon...

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A Musical Note: Connect (orchestral)

Princess Holy Aura is my Mahou shoujo senshi (Magical Girl Warrior) novel. It draws from a number of mahou shoujo series, as well as other related sentail/shonen series, but...

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A (belated) Thanksgiving Post...

Thanksgiving itself is too hectic to allow me to sit down and compose thoughts well, so you get this one today! It's public so that everyone can see what I say to you, my Patrons!


I have ...

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Most of the rewards are up...

... I'll be doing the Read Me Something reading this week and that means they could be up this week or beginning of next week. 


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Quick Update...

We have started a new month, so I'm doing the rewards. I've had some serious family issues the last few weeks but they should not interfere with giving you all the rewards.

I apparently failed to po...

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All-Patron Reward: Demons of the Past Early Draft: Born of Ice Chapter 2

Last month's chapter introduced us to a much older (circa 1988-1990) version of Sasham Varan, and set much earlier than the beginning of the final draft. The general outline of events in this section ...

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Okay, how'd that happen???

The link for SurveyMonkey turned into a link to one of the Read Me Something rewards. I've fixed it but obviously a lot of people probably already clicked on it and got puzzled.


Here's th...

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Because the Patreon survey was LIMITED to Patreon Users...

... I've also made a *completely* public poll at SurveyMonkey on the question of who wants to see an Arenaverse RPG. Please go and click through the one question!


2018-10-19 11:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Grand Central Arena RPG?

I'm trying to gauge interest in an Arenaverse-based roleplaying game (tabletop, not videogame, just to be clear). It is my belief that there's a pretty large percentage of gamers in my readership. So ...

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Demons of the Past: REVOLUTION releases on the 15th!

Ebook version is here: https://www.amazon.com/Demons-Past-REVOLUTION-Ryk-Spoor-ebook/dp/...

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All-Patron Reward: Demons, Early Draft Chapter 1

As discussed in prior posts, unlike many of my works Demons of the Past went through a lot of drafts and revisions, more than any other story of mine.

One of the largest changes overall was...

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This month's complete!

It took some work, but now I've posted all the rewards for the month!


As always, don't hesitate to ping me with any questions or suggestions!

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Almost all rewards posted...

... and I just finished recording the audio for the Read Me Something rewards, so I will be able to post those up, as I promised, pretty soon (probably Sunday? If not, next Tuesday).  Sorry again...

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All-Patron Reward: Original Ending of Boundary

Boundary was the first full-length novel Eric and I collaborated on. As such, it's unsurprising that there were some significant changes from one draft to another. Some of these were included...

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Haven't forgotten...

... and everything WILL be posted this month that's supposed to be. I've just lost two weekends this month (last week and this one) to other events that don't let me write or work on related stuff. Th...

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Another month begins!

I'll start posting rewards mostly next week!

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A Musical Note: Launch into the Unknown

"Super Atragon" is one of Japan's most famous SF titles, in its live-action incarnations often connected to the Toho Kaiju universe; Atragon of the title is a multimodal submarine/battleship of fantas...

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A Musical Note: Stigmata (Mana Khemia)

Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis is an amusing Japanese RPG for the Playstation 2 and PSP, which both my son Chris and I found very enjoyable. For the most part its music is similar to others in th...

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