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After all this time, it's nearly here! The Lorelei Ogden saga continues.

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As I continue to refine The Charon Conspiracy, I've spent the better part of my editing efforts the past week focused on one chapter. It's chapter 4, a pivotal scene where April and Lorelei are aboard the fancy new Sol D...

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Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday. Earlier this week, I completed a first pass at the Locations section of this Gamma Trita website's codex.

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The Codex is coming along well. I've added artwork for 23 characters.

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I've been having a blast creating visuals for the Gamma Trita universe. It's sent such a jolt in my creativity that I'm feverishly working to finish up The Charon Conspiracy, Book 1 of A Trita Duology and the fourth over...

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I'm excited to share some new reference material for the Gamma Trita series.

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It's been insanely long since I've posted on this blog. I hope everybody is well.

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Book 4 in the Gamma Trita universe is proceeding well. I'm roughly at 34,000 words and it's taking more and more shape. In fact -- a reveal for another day -- I might even have the title of the book and the title of the ...

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It's Friday -- time for more fun with Gamma Trita infographics.

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Here's another infographic -- spoilers ahead, though very minor.

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I put together a little infographic for how the solar system is run in my Gamma Trita universe.

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I've talked about this before, but I'm going to do it again -- I wrote a short story I'm really proud of called Fall Forward.

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I got the opportunity to do an interview with AllAuthor.com. They sent me a nice bunch of questions about my background in writing, where I get inspiration, and so on.

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It's messy. It's clumsy. It's all over the place. But the next book in the Gamma Trita saga has managed to hit 11,626 words.

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Yes, it's true!

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In this week's video More Sources of Inspiration for Key Characters, I shared more places that I drew inspiration. In the interests of time, I focused on three characters -- Ogden, Deed, and Silf/Charity.

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That's right -- April 18th only, you can get the entire trilogy for free on Kindle. No strings attached -- just head over to Amazon and snag them.

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Hello friends. It's been too long since I've done a blog post, but I'm back. Over the past couple weeks, I haven't been writing nearly as much as I'd like, and yet I've made a little bit of progress on some key stuff. Le...

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I've got something of an addiction to Kickstarter. It could be a lot worse -- but I've supported 44 campaigns over the past years. Most of them are games. Board games. Computer games. Tabletop role-playing games.

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Happy Friday!

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Today is Gemini Girl's birthday! One year ago, I published my first book -- the science fiction novella that kicked off the Gamma Trita Trilogy. Over the span of the year that followed, I managed to get the entire trilog...

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You've heard me say a million times how influential the video game Cyberpunk 2077 has been on my journey through self-publishing. There likely would be no Gemini Girl were it not for Cyberpunk filling my brain with enoug...

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It's hard to believe that Gemini Girl, my very first published work, will be hitting its one year anniversary on March 1st. It was a major moment in my life. Though Amazon makes it all pretty easy, I stumbled my way thro...

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Hello hello!

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It's Friday! On the writing front, things weren't as crazy as last week with The Gorgon Void book launch. I was able to get a little bit of writing done -- mostly two short stories.

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The Gorgon Void's Launch Week is nearly in the books. It's been one hell of a great experience. First off, I gave away a whopping 263 copies of Gemini Girl in a Monday promotion. Tuesday, 30 free copies of The Divided Ma...

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I have always had a dream of a repository (or \"Wiki\", if you will) of all manner of details about the Gamma Trita universe. Character backgrounds, location details, technology and ship descriptions...and so on.

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Happy Friday, friends!

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Happy Friday! If you saw my video this week, I had an unexpected boon in my creative pursuits this past week or so. I signed up to be part of an upcoming anthology called MOSAIC. The book will be a collection of poems, s...

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It's time for a writing prompt. Sometimes, it'll be a photo. Sometimes, Rory's Story Cubes. Sometimes, something else!

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Exciting news! After all the hype, the conclusion of The Gamma Trita Trilogy is coming soon. The Gorgon Void is now available for pre-order in Kindle. It'll drop on January 31st.

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It's time for a writing prompt. Sometimes, it'll be a photo. Sometimes, these Rory's Story Cubes. Sometimes, something else!

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The Divided Man (Gamma Trita Trilogy Book 2) has made it into the Cover of the Month contest on AllAuthor.com.

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And just like that, my debut year as a published author is nearly over. It's been even more rewarding than I imagined. I've gotten Gemini Girl and The Divided Man out there into the wild -- and people beyond my immediate...

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Five years ago, on December 27th, one of my best friends passed away. His name was Jon. He and another buddy of mine Gary met at the kindergarten table in 1979-ish and were pals the rest of the way.

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The Facebook group Writer's Haven did a Winter Story Prompt a week or so ago where they posted a few wintery photos and had people submit stories based on them.

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Hello friends.

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I just got an email informing me that Goodreads is assembling the annual Your Year in Books reports. I'm proud of the fact that I knocked out far, far more reading this year than I have in a long time.

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Let me preface this post by declaring that I do NOT consider myself a poet. Just following a poetry form or making lines that rhyme do not make you one. Like any artistic expression, it takes far more than that.

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Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday!

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Happy Friday!

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This is a writing challenge I gave myself -- to quickly create a Halloween-inspired short story set in the Gamma Trita universe. I didn't spend too much time on this. Feedback welcome!

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As I continue along the process of bringing to life a fantasy series I've been working on for much of my life, I have to pay homage to one of the biggest influences in my creative life.

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A great writer whom I follow on Facebook -- Victoria Graefer -- wrote a blog post yesterday, How much world building is worth it? Check it out. It's gotten me thinking about the topic and, specifically, how much detail a...

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Happy October!

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Happy Friday!

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Book 3 of the Gamma Trita Trilogy is now in the editing phase, still on track for a 2023 release.

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