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Drafting
The Kuiper Dominion, the third book in the NASA Engineer series that started with The Martian Incident
7/44 chapters drafted
Editing
In Pentagon Review
The Saturn Anomaly, the dual-time sequel to my hit The Martian Incident
Crush Depth, the chilling deep sea standalone technothriller sequel to Lag Delay
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Why the Pentagon Can’t Pass an Audit
Posted this to X/Twitter, will post the story here too. I’ve talked about this before, but after I got through grad school I PCSed to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and became the mission manager for the STP-2 launch. That launch was a task order on the OSP-3 contract, which had a few different vendors on…
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Crush Depth 21: Editing
Old posts are on the main Crush Depth page at the bottom. Ah, editing. Simultaneously my favorite part and my least favorite part of writing. Thankfully, from a big picture standpoint, Crush Depth is in good shape. That’s honestly to be expected considering it’s the fourth draft of the same story concept. But there’s a…
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Wasted Words and Canceled Projects
I threw out a 100,000 word completed manuscript in December of 2025. It was the 2nd full version of Crush Depth – check out my blog post series on it if you want to know how I’ve recovered (and am now on the 4th version). And it stung. I had spent a lot of my…
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