Ryan M. Patrick

Prolegomenon/The Rigel Conspiracy/whatever I end up calling it is done. Needs a ton of edits, as well as a title that I’ll stick to. Hoping to clean it up next month & get it out to my beta readers. Hopefully I won’t need any huge developmental edits…but we’ll see.

I’ve started rewriting Lag Delay, which is less work than I thought it’d be. I think it’ll be done-done sometime in November. Then, as soon as the Pentagon clears it, I’ll get it up for preorders sometime in the February/March 2024 timeframe. Just needs a cover!

From a personal standpoint, I’m going through TAP (Transition Assistance Program) next week and am looking for the next stage of my career after my military time is up. I’m going to stay in the Reserves in some capacity, but my time on active duty is done in June of next year. I think I know what my next step will be, but I’m a bit too far out to formally say anything about it, so it’s honestly kind of nerve-wracking – I haven’t been in this spot since high school! But, it’s an exciting time, and if what I think is coming works out I’m going to be in a great position.

My newsletter will be going out the first week of October. In it, I’ll give a summary of my last quarter of writing, muse on some going-ons in the aerospace industry, and some personal updates from me & my family.

As a final note, starting in October, I’ll be doing one of two things as part of my weekly update. I’ll either be taking apart a common sci-fi trope – or something that should be a trope – and looking at it from an engineering standpoint, or I’ll be looking at a recent news article on the aerospace industry and provide commentary on how that will – or should – impact sci-fi and technothriller books in the future. The first one will be on radar – more specifically, types of radars. It’s not an area where I’d consider myself an expert, but I beta-read (and read in published books) a lot of incorrect information on radars as sensors and want to try and help other authors with what radar can do and what it can’t do.