Tag: novel
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Crush Depth 9: The Plot Thickens – Chapters 15-17
Previous blog posts in this series are found at the bottom of the Crush Depth main page. Chapter 14 ended with a dead-end – the yacht that had no connection to the Vepr or any of their mission. Again, that’s probably a weak plot point but the character development and some interesting nuggets that I…
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Crush Depth 7: The Mystery Deepens – Chapters 9-11
Check the Crush Depth page for the previous posts in this series. So in Chapter 8 (the last chapter covered in my previous post) Grace Parkowski and the other two people on the submersible Nautilus narrowly evaded a near-ramming by what they will later discover is a mosasaur and then discovered part of the sunken…
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Crush Depth 3: From 3 Acts to 45 Chapters
In part 1, I did a postmortem of what I did wrong with the second draft of Crush Depth. In part 2, I took my new one-sentence plan for the novel and expanded it to three acts. And this is part 3, where I will expand that outline further into chapter-by-chapter descriptions that will serve…
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The Saturn Anomaly Update
It’s at the Pentagon for a security review – here’s to a short turnaround! If all goes well, I’ll shoot for a December release. Here’s what I’m planning to put in the “About this Book” section at the end: If you’ve read any of my other books’ “About This Book” sections, you know that most…
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Crush Depth 1: In Late, Out Early!
If you read my update from earlier in the month, you know I shelved Crush Depth. It was a hard decision. It’s a 2nd draft and a story idea that I’ve spent a lot of time writing and editing since 2020. And if giving up on the manuscript last time was hard, this one was…
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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…
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My Writing Journey
I was going to write a post this month on something else, but I was at my brother’s wedding out in Texas and my mom gave me some printouts of my old stories. It made me incredibly nostalgic, and really put how far I’ve come into perspective. I started when I was maybe 9 or…
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