Category: Posts

• July 2025 Goals

  Smaller goals than the previous few months – the first half of the month is shot with a pair of short vacations. Nevertheless, time to get some writing done! Crush Depth It’s out with my alpha readers – hopefully I can start edits based on their feedback by the end of the month. I’d also…

  Ryan Patrick

  July 2, 2025

  Beginning of Month, Posts

  author, book-reviews, books, fantasy, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, self publishing, selfpublishing, writer, writers, writing

• June 2025 Wrapup

  It’s been a very busy month, but I still got a lot of writing done! Crush Depth Crush Depth‘s 2nd draft is done and I’m doing a round of self-edits before I get it to my alpha and beta readers and into manuscript swaps. It’s good, but definitely needs some more work, and having some…

  Ryan Patrick

  June 30, 2025

  End of Month, Posts

  author, book-reviews, books, fantasy, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• Elon at My Launch

  Posted this on Twitter, may as well share here too. No NDAs will be violated, and of course opinions are my own. I was the government mission manager for the STP-2 (Space Test Program-2) launch – the first DOD Falcon Heavy. I owned the $160M contract, had to make all technical and programmatic decisions, etc.…

  Ryan Patrick

  June 8, 2025

  Posts

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• Sales and Reviews

  I see a lot of discussions on Twitter (X), Discord, Facebook, and other places authors congregate about reviews and their relationship to sales. There’s a lot of chaff and misconceptions, and I might even have bought into some of them! But I’m going to go through the roughly 18 months of data that I have…

  Ryan Patrick

  June 3, 2025

  Posts, Writing Advice

  author, book-reviews, books, fantasy, fiction, goodreads, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• June 2025 Goals

  Start of summer, time to write! The Europan Deception Working on some advertising stuff – hoping to get an ad or two working; really haven’t had any of them “click” for me like The Martian Incident‘s auto-ad has. Again, thank you all who have already read & reviewed/rated it! Again, if you haven’t picked it…

  Ryan Patrick

  June 2, 2025

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• May 2025 Wrapup

  It’s been a month – my wife joked to me that it’s been “Maycember.” So much stuff going on, at work, with my family, with my friends, and with my writing! It’s been mostly all good though – with a couple of hiccups that I’ll talk about. The Europan Deception I had hoped for at…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 30, 2025

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  author, books, fantasy, fiction, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, scifi, writing

• How I Edit

  Following on from my posts How I Outline and How I Draft, here’s How I Edit! First Things First I don’t edit while I write – at all. If I know there’s an issue, I take a note in my notebook or make a comment in Word. This helps me keep going to get to…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 21, 2025

  Posts, Writing Advice

  author, books, editing, fantasy, indie author, indie books, publishing, scifi, writing, writing-tips

• My Top 10 Video Games

  Like my post a few months ago with my top 10 books, without further ado, here’s my 10 favorite video games (and yes, I’m using series in a few spots so I’m cheating!). No particular order other than #1. Mass Effect Trilogy I yap about them a lot on Twitter, but the Mass Effect trilogy…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 15, 2025

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  games, gaming, video-games, videogames

• The Europan Deception Releases Today!

  It’s been a long time coming. The Europan Deception is now available in ebook, paperback, and hardcover from Amazon. If you’re looking for a fast-paced sci-fi thriller, this is the novel for you. It’s the best book I’ve ever written and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I (and my ARC readers)…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 6, 2025

  Announcement, Posts

  author, book-reviews, books, booksales, hard scifi, indie author, indie books, publishing, reading, science fiction, science-fiction, sciencefiction, scifi, selfpub, selfpublishing, writing, writingcommunity

• May 2025 Goals

  Going to be another busy month, but I think now that my wife is done with her master’s degree I might have a little more time. The Europan Deception Nothing to do but see how the release goes! I’m expecting it to be better-performing than my last two, but who knows. Hoping for more than…

  Ryan Patrick

  May 1, 2025

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