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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 chilling deep sea standalone technothriller sequel to Lag Delay

In final edits

In Pentagon Review

The Saturn Anomaly, the dual-time sequel to my hit The Martian Incident

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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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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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