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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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End of Feb 2025/Beginning of Mar 2025

Not a terrible month, but could have been better. The Saturn Anomaly Still at the Pentagon in its prepublication security review. I pinged them in the middle of the month and they told me that there’s still a DOD element that needs to approve it. Waiting and waiting…hopefully with a resolution soon! Crush Depth Also…

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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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