Author: Ryan Patrick
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2026 Sales (Or Lack Thereof!)
I did a post a few months ago about my 2025 sales. And I had plans to do a mid-year sales post but life got in the way – June and July were super busy months – and even worse, I’ve moved a fraction of the books that I did last year. But there’s reasons…
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End of July/Start of August 2026
Both family vacations are out of the way and we’re into the home stretch of the year. The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth and The Kuiper Dominion 3 books there now. I had a bet with someone that The Kuiper Dominion would get into a security review before I got clearance on any of my books and…
Ryan Patrick
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Lessons Learned from 3 Years of an Author Website
I recently got billed for another 3 years of hosting from WordPress. That means it’s been 3 years since I launched this website! Lots of lessons learned – here’s the top 5: 1 – Website as the Central Hub I’m on a lot of different platforms. Mostly X/Twitter as my main social media outlet, but…
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Author Deep Dive: Tim Powers
I’ve written about Tim Powers before, mostly in my Me and the Fantasy Genre and Top 10 Favorite Books posts, but I wanted to do a deep dive into his books and why there is almost nothing else like his works out there. I’m going to make this a monthly thing – go in depth into one…
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End of June/Beginning of July 2026
Halfway through the year! 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 NSTR. Still at the Pentagon. I’ll ping them again in July or August. The Kuiper Dominion Great month. I finished at 94,000 words and have been…
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Technothrillers
Had a (shockingly good) Twitter interaction earlier this month Decided to write a bit more about it. And given my background I may be one of the few people who’s able to coherently do so. In this blog post, I’ll talk about what a technothriller is, and then break them into two camps – the…
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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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Improving the Process
2 months ago I wrote a post on inefficiency following on from a previous post on wasted words. I’ve been a very inefficient writer over the last decade – I just trashed most of a half-complete 45,000 word draft! But I’m getting better, and this is how. Heavy Outlining I’ll admit it – I’m lazy.…
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