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The Hammer Slams No More (David Drake Is Retiring)
There will be a longer post later. However, as many of you are fellow military sci-fi fans, I thought I’d share the news that David Drake is officially retiring. Mr. Drake has been talking about his declining health for several months, and I am unfortunately unsurprised. I can’t say for certain how long I’ve been reading…
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A New Home
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The Strategic Bombing Campaign Part VII: Shooters and Targets
Badasses, Part II: The Shooters As discussed in the last segment, in February 1944 General Carl Spaatz and his subordinate, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, decided it was time to take the fight to the Luftwaffe. However, deciding to go kick a whole hostile air force’s rear end was one thing. Getting the right folks to…
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Social Media = Author Business Tool
So independent author to independent author, let’s talk about social media. In case you haven’t noticed (HA!), there’s been a lot of angst over social media as of late. As in, multiple folks are being downright vehement on whether some sites deserve patronage at all. Uh…do y’all want to make money? Because unless anyone is…
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Authors Talk History Panel
So as promised in a previous post, here’s the History Talk hosted by H.P. Holo. I think David, Terry, H.P., and I all had a great time!
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Against the Tide Imperial Is Live!
At long last, it gives me great pleasure to report Against the Tide Imperial, Book #3 in my Usurper’s War Series, is live! All 400 pages of it!
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A Million Words?
This comes up occasionally, based mainly on David Eddings admonition to “Write a million words…then throw it all away…”. His quote is at the beginning of this article, and oft quoted elsewhere (like by Draft2Digital, the self publication site). I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again–I don’t think there’s a magic number. With…
