Tag: book-reviews
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Update on Crush Depth, The Saturn Anomaly, and Some Short Stories
Finally, some good news. On 5 August, I heard back from the Pentagon that my two novels in review there were in final review. Then the next day, I got the clearance to publish Crush Depth. And then after that…crickets on The Saturn Anomaly. I want to get both books out this year, so I’m…
Ryan Patrick
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AI and Writing – Part 3: Consistency Editor
Lots of talk this week about AI watermarking – that’s probably a blog post in and of itself. It’s not here yet (or is it?) but regardless you don’t want to try to be passing off LLM-produced text as your own. However, there are still ways to use LLMs and AI in the writing process…
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…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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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…
Ryan Patrick
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AI and Writing – Part 1, AI-Generated Text vs Human Writing
I am working on some other posts in this vein but they’re longer and require more research than this one. But I am absolutely fascinating by the confluence of AI and creative writing and I feel like I need to start getting my thoughts on it out. Part 1 of this series will be on…
Ryan Patrick
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End of March 2026/Beginning of April 2026
This month flew by. Not much has changed other than on The Saturn Anomaly and Crush Depth Still at the Pentagon. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Not much else to say, I’ll probably bug them again at the end of April. Price of doing business with me writing in the genres I write in, I guess. But Crush Depth…
Ryan Patrick