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Drafting

Memento Vivere, my love letter to Tim Powers’ primary world fantasy set in my hometown area of Chester County, PA

39/56 chapters drafted

Editing

The Kuiper Dominion, the third book in the NASA Engineer series that started with The Martian Incident

9/45 chapters edited

In Pentagon Review

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

Crush Depth, the chilling deep sea technothriller sequel to Lag Delay

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Why Stargate is Important to Me

This isn’t necessarily a #savestargate post. I don’t trust Amazon Prime to not totally drop the ball, Rings of Power and Wheel of Time are both basically unwatchable. But I don’t want the franchise to die, or even worse, be rebooted, because it means a lot to me – probably more than any other media…

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End of May/Beginning of June 2026

A much better month in terms of writing, but still no traction on my two novels in the Pentagon security review. The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth I pinged the Pentagon on the 4th of May, no joy – they’re both still in “component review.” I’ll ping them again sometime this summer. There’s precedent though – both…

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AI and Writing – Part 2 The Good and the Bad

Well this is a hot topic right now… Last post, I showed why AI is a bad drafter. But there’s a lot that an LLM can do, and it’s not all bad – just don’t have it write any words for you! I’ll break this post into two categories – what I’ve found that AI…

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