Tag: book-reviews
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The Black Knight
Post on on one of my favorite conspiracy theories, the Black Knight satellite! It’ll play a huge role in the sequel to The Martian Incident, The Saturn Anomaly. For the uninitiated, the Black Knight is supposedly a 13,000-year-old spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin in a nondecaying polar orbit that emits a repeating signal. The existence of…
Ryan Patrick
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End of July/Beginning of August 2025
Going to combine these posts, there’s not much value in keeping them separate. Here’s where I am and where I’m going. Crush Depth Beta feedback has been coming in over the last month and it’s been mostly positive from a developmental standpoint, but there’s a lot that I need to fix at the line level.…
Ryan Patrick
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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