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Outlining
The Horsehead Incursion, the 5th book in my Dark Galaxy series
0/60 chapters outlined
Drafting
The Kuiper Dominion, the third book in the NASA Engineer series that started with The Martian Incident
6/45 chapters drafted
Editing
Crush Depth, the thrilling sequel to Lag Delay set thousands of feet underneath the Atlantic.
29/46 chapters edited
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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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Crush Depth 20: Chapters 42-Epilogue – The End
Old posts are on the main Crush Depth page at the bottom. This is the end! Chapter Forty-Two: Pick up as soon as the last chapter ended. The survivors board the Nautilus; mosasaurs gently guide the submersible upward taking into account “the bends”. Lots of discussion and speculation, and a few points where they think…
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Crush Depth 19: Chapters 39-41 – Conversation
Previous posts are on the main Crush Depth page at the bottom. This is the part of the novel I’m the least sure about and that I’m likely going to fix the most in edits. The core concept is fine, but I think the pacing is wonky. More to come in edits. Chapter Thirty-Nine: It…
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