Category: Posts
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March 2025 Wrapup
Busy month. Got more done in some areas than others. Going to focus on my writing because I didn’t read much (!) and barely had any times for video games. The Europan Deception Proofreading is done and the final version is uploaded to Amazon! Reviews are trickling in and they are great, beyond my wildest…
Ryan Patrick
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How I Draft
As a follow-up to my post late last year on How I Outline (one of my most popular ones!), this one will cover how I draft – get words down on (electronic, usually) paper, and the things I do to make sure that I actually can get them down. I won’t use a specific example…
Ryan Patrick
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2 Months to Release
In exactly 2 months, The Europan Deception will be released – the culmination of over two decades of planning, writing, and editing! May 6 can’t come soon enough. Preorder it here or request an ARC copy here.
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March 2025 Look Ahead
Looking at my schedule, I might have a pretty productive month ahead, especially from a writing standpoint. Writing Going to be doing my final proofread of The Europan Deception and making sure all of my ARC readers have the book and are posting reviews to Goodreads (Amazon won’t be ready until launch). If you haven’t…
Ryan Patrick
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February 2025 Wrap-up
Not a great month. Washing machine broke, layoffs at work (I survived, many of my friends did not), and just awful weather for the most part in the DC area. But there was a lot of good on the writing side. Writing Against all odds, The Europan Deception came back from the Pentagon after only…
Ryan Patrick
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The Europan Deception cleared the Pentagon!
The Martian Incident took 94 days to get through a mandatory security review. Lag Delay took 413 days – over a year. And The Europan Deception only took 29! My 3rd book is cleared for publication with no mandatory edits. I have the ebook cover, just need to create the paperback one, order a proof,…
Ryan Patrick
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Top 10 Favorite Books
I didn’t do a yearly wrap-up of the best books I read in 2024 – will do one at the conclusion of 2025! – but I wanted to do something similar with my all-time favorite books. I’ve been a voracious reader since I was a child. I started at a very early age and was…
Ryan Patrick
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Based Book Sale Spring 2025
Both The Martian Incident and Lag Delay are $0.99/£0.99 along with a ton of other great books – I recommend The Halley Traveler by Mike Mollman and After Moses by Michael F. Kane but I have yet to see a book there that I haven’t liked. https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/2025-spring-based-book-sale Go check it out!
Ryan Patrick
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Common Beta Reader Mistakes
I alpha and beta read a lot – see this post for what that entails – for my critique partners. Here’s a quick post on some of the things I often see when I’m reading. Taking Too Long to Get Started There’s some advice that I heard, I think for the first time on the…
Ryan Patrick
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February 2025 Goals
Shortest month of the year! I got slightly ahead of my yearly plan in January, we’ll see if I’m able to maintain that or if I get behind. Writing Planning to get to roughly the halfway point of Crush Depth – Chapter 30 or so – and around the same with Memento Vivere (Chapter 29).…
Ryan Patrick
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