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Big Historical Find
For those of you familiar with the Pacific Theater, Admiral Chester Nimitz’s “Graybook” is available online in all its .pdf glory. For those less familiar, this is basically Admiral Nimitz’s complete war diary from assumption of command until victory of Japan. Go check it out if you get a chance. Also, had to take a…
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Potpourri July 2020
This Saturday, I will be presenting on Writer’s Research for the St. Louis Writer’s Guild. You can join for free via Zoom. I’m basically going to talk about how to do historical research and also chase down various things about writing. There’s going to also be a lot of Q&A, so if you’re wanting…
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Ancillary Items–Editors and Illustrators
Why Editors and Illustrators Are Important Editors and illustrators are the most important pieces of indie publishing next to the author themselves. (Edit: No, I’m not just saying that because I’m married to an artist who has also done a rather important cover…or two…or now three.) Whenever I talk about indie publishing in…
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Zeroes vs. Spitfires
Come friends, I’d like to provide a resource regarding one of aviation buffs favorite questions: “Which was better, the Zero or the Spitfire?” Note: Well yes, I know that’s actually an Oscar catching the business from one Adam Haynes above. Something about I might have wrote the book. However, half the time Allied pilots couldn’t tell…
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Warship Wednesday–Territories and Mission
If you ever wonder just how crazy things got towards the end of the Washington Naval Treaty, look no further than the Alaska-class large cruisers. I’m going to let the always excellent Drachnifel give a quick rundown of the vessels here: Unlike the poster (and it’s a lovely series), I’ve never been of the school…
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Warship Wednesday–Carrier Doctrine #1
Interesting thing I discovered about carrier doctrine in writing the Usurper’s War series in general, but definitely with regards to Against the Tide Imperial: The three main carrier navies in our timeline did things very, very differently. The USN basically went all in on “every carrier throws a haymaker.” This was shown both in early task…
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Audiobook News, "Surly" Edition
To Slip the Surly Bonds is now available on audiobook here!
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Paths to Publishing
Fellow author (and good person) Holly Messinger shared this infographic on paths to publishing on FB earlier today. The original source has more information and commentary at this link. I agree with what the original poster said on most counts. As an indie, I assure you, fair reader, that you will be doing a lot of…
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News From the Con World
This mirrors what a lot of other vendors have said about the 2019 season and concerns about 2020. While I will be potentially doing as many shows, I’m definitely leaning towards new markets with proven performers. This is also something to consider for the larger author community. One may have to take a deep breath…
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WWII Quick References (NOV 2019)
Figured I’d perchance save loyal readers some gumshoe work down the road if they ever want to do a World War II story: You can find ONI drawings for World War II references (like for your cartographer to draw ship outlines) here. This is a good time zone converter for those cases when you go…
