Author: Ryan Patrick
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November Update
Not much to talk about. I’ve been busy on the “real job” front and haven’t had much time to write. Might have some big announcements soon, but I don’t want to put the cart before the horse. The Martian Incident is done. Done, done, done. I just need to upload the final manuscript to Amazon…
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October Update
Not much to talk about, been busy with work, family, and my post-military career. I’m almost done with the detailed outline for my currently-unnamed pirate fantasy novel. It’s very character-driven, a departure from some of my other novels, but it’s single-POV, single-plot, which is my strength. I’m very excited to start drafting it in a…
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Lag Delay is cleared!
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…
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September Update
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…
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Goodreads and the mailing list are live!
Not much to report on, work has eaten me alive the last week and a half or so. However, I do have Goodreads up, both for my author page and for The Martian Incident. I’m not sure how I’m going to use it yet, but feel free to follow me and shelve my book! The…
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The Martian Incident preorder is live!
After what was much more work than I thought it was going to be, The Martian Incident is live to be preordered! You can find it here on Amazon. It’ll be in Kindle Unlimited as well, and I’m still working on the paperback version. My Goodreads page is in progress, will hopefully be ready by…
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Blog is live!
Well, I bit the bullet and bought the domain and 3 years of hosting. I’m all-in now. Crush Depth is done, 114,000 words and sitting for a bit. The Martian Incident is in its final proofread. Once that’s done, I’ll load it to Amazon and then start preorders. I have a cover, but I didn’t…
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August Update!
Site is going to go live in a couple of months, so I need to get updating! Big news at the end. Crush Depth currently sits at 111,500 words out of a (newly planned) 114,000. It’s in better shape than I had thought it was going to be but is going to need a ton…
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An Update, and a Pivot
Day job has been keeping me swamped. I’ve had very little time to write this month. First, the bad news. Lag Delay has not been doing well on the querying front. I believe that the first third to half of the book needs to be completely rewritten in order to capture the modern reader. This…
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May Update
It’s been busy at my day job, so I haven’t had as much time to write or edit. The Martian Incident went to the Pentagon review process today. Hopefully, I’ll hear back from them soon. I think I’m going to put that one out there as soon as it comes back. It’s edited, proofread, and…
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