Tag: books

• 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

  February 18, 2025

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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

  February 13, 2025

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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

  February 9, 2025

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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

  February 2, 2025

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• End of January 2025 Wrapup

  

  It’s been a month. My company launched our first orbital rocket, and I was part of the team supporting it. I didn’t get anywhere near as much done in my hobbies (weightlifting, writing, reading, video games) as I had planned. But it still was a successful one. Writing I finished the final developmental edits for…

  Ryan Patrick

  January 30, 2025

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• Me and the Fantasy Genre

  Quick blog post on my complicated relationship with the fantasy genre. For two of the genres I write in – sci-fi and technothrillers – my interest is almost self-explanatory. I’m an astronautical engineer who has been fascinated with space since I was a child, of course I’m going to want to read and write books…

  Ryan Patrick

  January 9, 2025

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• January 2025 Goals

  This is it, the start of the new year! I have a lot of writing goals for the year, and this is where it all begins. Writing The Europan Deception I’ll be editing this one hardcore in January and February. I had 15 beta readers’ worth of feedback and I’ll be incorporating a lot of…

  Ryan Patrick

  January 2, 2025

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• End of December 2024

  The month went by quickly! Onto 2025. Writing I was about 55,000 words into Crush Depth when I realized that one of my subplots – carried from previous versions – no longer works. Thankfully, I have a fix! Just need to work it in. I’m probably on track to finish in April or May, pushing…

  Ryan Patrick

  December 30, 2024

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• 2025 Goals

  2025 is going to be a big year for me. If everything holds, it’ll be the year I release The Europan Deception, my white whale – the book I’ve always wanted to write and that’s kept me going as I’ve improve my craft. I’ve got a lot of other things I’m working on too. I…

  Ryan Patrick

  December 9, 2024

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• Start of December 2024

  

  Last month of the year! And what a year it’s been. I released my 2nd book, left the military, joined Blue Origin, and finally finished The Europan Deception. Here’s what’s on tap for December: Writing Would love to get to 60,000 words done of Crush Depth. 15,000 words/month is a lot less than I did…

  Ryan Patrick

  December 2, 2024

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