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January Update!
It’s a new year of writing! The Martian Incident has been a decent success, about as good as I had expected it to be. In one month I’ve sold ~30 copies and had about an equivalent amount of full readthroughs on Kindle Unlimited. Reviews and ratings are pretty consistently 3 to 5 stars. I’m sure…
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Post-Launch/December Update
Well, it’s certainly been a week! The Martian Incident came out on Tuesday, December 5, and I’m certainly pleased to see how it’s selling so far. I’ve sold 20 copies and have had a couple of people read through it on Kindle Unlimited. Sales-wise, I’m pretty pleased, but I haven’t gotten any reviews or ratings…
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1 Week to Release
It’s been a long journey. I started writing – like most authors – as a kid. I wrote a bunch of short stories, most of which were for school assignments. I vividly remember reading a novel in a class in high school, can’t remember what it was, and thinking “I can write better than that.”…
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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…
Ryan M. Patrick 