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Homages and Promises
When writing This Corner of the Universe, I had lots of fun inserting some homages to significant historical items (and some not so significant). The first (and certainly most controversial, if you...
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Marketing Copy for No Way to Start a War
September will be a busy month, with the majority of my time spent on the final sprint to complete No Way to Start a War for its October release. I have all of the comments and typo catches back from...
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Cover for No Way to Start a War
I’ve settled into a general approach to cover art for the TCOTU series. In a nutshell, my goal for each cover is simply to: Choose a text color to use everywhere the book is promoted. Choose an image...
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If You’re Early, You’re On Time…
We accomplished a massive “final” editing push over the last week, so much so that there’s time to run through No Way To Start a War just once more. It’s amazing the tiny mistakes I still run across....
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NEW RELEASE – No Way to Start a War
The Amazon page for No Way to Start a War is up. The Publish button for Nook was pushed at the same time, as promised, but Barnes and Noble may take 24 hours to get the book up. Thanks, everyone, …...
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An Update on Nook vs. KDP Select
About three months ago I took This Corner of the Universe down from Barnes&Noble to try the 90-day experiment with Amazon’s KDP Select program. The program trades exclusivity on Amazon for a...
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Starting the War
I took some pictures of a few opening notes I made while beginning to outline No Way to Start a War. If you look at the pictures, sorry about my handwriting; it’s awful. Also, these are preliminary...
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TCOTU and NWTSAW Available in Print on Amazon
The print editions of This Corner of the Universe and No Way to Start a War are now available on Amazon.com. I’m very happy that Amazon put a little discount on my list prices too, driving Book 1...
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No Way to Start a War on Indie Book of the Day
I missed being able to post this on Friday, but No Way to Start a War was featured as Book of the Day over on IBD. Always fun to flip through the books on sites dedicated to supporting indie authors,...
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About the F-3 Pup (NWTSAW)
In No Way To Start A War, the Brevic Navy introduces its first dedicated carrier-based fighter, the F-3 Pup. The name, Pup, might be considered an unusual choice until you look at the history of the...
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What’s Old Is New Again
One of the things I take pride in is my attention to detail in ship combat. I don’t go through the motions when it comes to combat and everything I describe “happened” when I was plotting out and...
View ArticleAn Easter Egg in No Way to Start a War
Today has me thinking about Easter eggs of a different kind, as in little hidden gems in TV shows, movies or books meant as homages or little jokes. I occasionally toss them into my books… have you...
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