Ryan M. Patrick

I had planned to “really” start my blog with a rundown of remote sensing for sci-fi writers, but I got exciting news this week – Lag Delay, my technothriller novel about a dark conspiracy surrounding a NASA mission to Venus, has cleared the Pentagon security review process and can be published! It was in review for over a year, and is finally cleared. There are some small edits to be made, but the core of the story is good to go.

I still need to do my final edits, and get a cover, but a huge weight is off of my shoulders. I think I’m going to target a March 2024 launch, giving me time to do those things and get my ARC team ready.

That also means that I won’t be doing the heavy revisions to Lag Delay that I had expected to do. Instead, I’ll be editing The Europan Deception. The core story of that is in good shape as well, but the character arcs and some of the setting details need heavy rework. Enigma – the book previously known as The Rigel Conspiracy and Prolegomenon – is out to beta readers. Crush Depth is still in wait mode, I’m letting it marinate before I go through and start making the large-scale changes that I envision.

That means that my sci-fi writers’ blog from an engineering standpoint will probably have to wait until next month. The plan is to regularly post deep dives in to the little details that sci-fi writers often get wrong in their writing, but that I have practical experience in. First one was going to be on just radar, but I’m going to talk remote sensing at a high level.