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It Is Finished!

Against the Tide Imperial is complete! As my editors have been working concurrently, I'll start updating with their revisions this week, with hopes to get the book up within the next 60 days. Of...

Big Historical Find

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...

Whoopsie and Updates

Whoopsie and Updates

So, you know how sometimes you figure out you're going to do something in a few months, set all the conditions, and then think "Of course I'll remember that!"? Come to find out, when there's a...

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...

Friends in High (Suborbital) Places

So a thing about the Con(vention) business is you gradually develop a family. One of the really good folks in the fam, Dorothy Grant (spouse of the indomitable Peter), took up the writing gig a...

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...