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Spaceships
I recently realized that I keep blowing up expensive spaceships, and that there’s a new Typhoon spaceship (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) for every book in the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series. Though I...
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Warning: You Will Want to Read the Entire Series!
Author Linda Nightingale’s review of The Martian Marauders, Book One of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series: Various reviews here have summarized the story. I won’t repeat the details here. I’ll...
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On Finishing a First Draft
I just finished Draft 1 of Commer of the Rebellion, Book 6 in the Jack Commer series. It’s too early to judge what sort of novel this is, or even if COTR will remain the final title. I’m already...
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Reviewing Reviews
Recently an episode of relentless plowing through a novel I didn’t really want to read sparked a happy realization. I’m always open to abandoning a book I’m not enjoying–after all, there are millions...
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The First Twenty Steps in Paperback
I’m not sure this is the protagonist, Harry Allen, but I drew him or someone today and there he possibly is. The novella chronicling his first day out of prison, The First Twenty Steps, is now...
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The Hunter’s Rede (The Chronicles of Ealiron Book One) – Review
Fantasy author F. T. McKinstry offers a 2016 second edition of The Hunter’s Rede, now available from Amazon. The Hunters’ Rede, Book One of The Chronicles of Ealiron, offers an absorbing look into the...
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Crisis! Restructure Major Metropolitan Library!
This summer’s Draft 7 of Sortmind completely changed the old library-centric plot of the original novel, and it was only after a small amount of grief that I finally knew I had to let go of the...
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CommWealth – The Ensemble Cast
I’ve always thought of the characters in CommWealth as an ensemble cast in a movie, where accomplished actors divide the plot between them and no one actor has the lead role. I didn’t intend this...
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CommWealth – The Origin Dream
The idea for CommWealth came from the first part of these notes from a dream (“Their Satanic Majesties Computer Software Guide”), although successive revisions changed much of the plot. The second...
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The SolGrid Rebellion / The Title Change
Jonathan James Commer, Charismatic Rebel If anyone had paid attention to Jack Commer’s son before this day, it was to jeer that the kid had emerged non compos mentis from his stunt in Alpha Centauri,...
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The Regent’s Daughter by Kara D. Wilson – Review
Epic Coming of Age Story Newly Re-Released from Goldminds Publishing The first book of The Aurora Chronicles follows eleven-year-old Reila as she grows to maturity and becomes aware of her destiny to...
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Rhys of Quadrant Six by Kara D. Wilson – Review
Fascinating and Unexpected Directions in Book II Rhys of Quadrant Six, Book II of the Falkrow Narratives, takes up shortly after the action in Book I, Rhys of Earth, but accelerates into fascinating...
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Trotter is Part of Your Garthah-/yuu? A Dog?
To keep Jack Commer’s kidnapped son sane aboard Alpha Centaurian flagship N8J’rallifh-hhu42jdnh, Captain Clopt of the Imperial Guard sent time-traveling agents to Sol to obtain first a robot companion,...
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Trip to Mars in Paperback
A few years ago I resurrected my first attempt at a novel, Trip to Mars, fifty-five penciled pages in a small yellow notebook with numerous crude illustrations. The 2,646-word story I produced as a...
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The SolGrid Rebellion to be Published
Suzette Borman, rebel against SolGrid, at nineteen in 2052–or as the rejuvenated woman of 2076. The SolGrid Rebellion, Book Six of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander science fiction series, will be...
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Milton Raeynold Glouair IV from The Soul Institute
Soul Institute library director Milt Glouair secured his appointment through his grandparents, influential donors to TSI who somehow outmaneuvered the usually politically astute Soul Institute...
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Three Legacy Novels
Why should writers’ blogs, including my own, continue to spout, in glorious marketing-ese dialect, a sort of Chamber of Commerce civic boosterism about our stunning writing careers and our usually...
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Free Soul Institute! Free Twenty Steps! Through July 31
The eBook versions of my flagship literary novel The Soul Institute and my science fiction novella The First Twenty Steps can be had for free from Smashwords through the end of July. The Soul Institute...
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Amid Work on Three Karmic Novels
I’ve finished good drafts of the Three Legacy Novels outlined in the June 18 blog post. The question was: could I make the older manuscripts of Jump Grenade, Akard Drearstone, and Sortmind into fully...
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Akard Drearstone – The Blog Post, Part I: Publication at Last
A cinder block falls on Akard Drearstone’s head and he trades his print shop job for lead guitar. Months later, as the four members of the Akard Drearstone Group face the onslaught of national fame at...
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