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After an ultra-marathon day of editing (6-8 hours in the chair) I finished the first round of structural and grammatical edits for my novel “The Survivors” just now. I actually don’t remember when it was I printed it out and made in-line comments by hand, but I think it was last summer. It has been very slow going, but I am so happy with how it turned out. Most importantly, I had stalled on editing…
I was glad to come back to this world. I enjoyed learning about Pax and Steveland and how the plant live on that planet worked. At the end of book two, Steveland sent seedlings to earth, as well as a Glassmaker, so I was looking forward to seeing that interaction. Instead, this book took a quite different turn, showing the aftermath of a global war (the Insurrection) that took place within the last few decades.…
This is a captivating and horrific story about love, life, and the search for meaning. It is hard to compare to anything else I have read. Calling it Kafkaesque makes sense, in its absurdity, but this book has no obvious answers, and yet it easily can speak to everyone. It has themes of meaningless and meaning, timelessness and time, love and loss, and what it means to be human, at the very core of that…
I am very excited to announce my first non-flash piece has been published at Abyss & Apex. You can find the story here. I hope you enjoy it!
Most of humanity has been slaughtered, and we, along with refugees from other alien civilizations across our local spiral arm have fled to a camp at the edge of the void, waiting to board slow ships that will carry us away from the Cutters. That is a heck of a premise, and it is exactly the type of SF I love to read. It literally says in my bio that I am a “spaceships and…
I read the first book in this trilogy a year ago. I read Sword over the summer and just finished Mercy in the last few days. I kept meaning to write about this book but life has been very busy, and that business, unfortunately, has colored my perception and enjoyment of this series. I really wanted to like these two book as much as the first one but I did not. I found the first…
I am really behind on my reading log and as such I am not going to be able to do a very good job with these two books. I’m classifying these books as “hard SF” because it seems very realistic. No FTL, no “magic” science, and an interesting extrapolation of observed plant biology in outer space. I listened to these two mostly on my walks to and from work during the month of October and…
I listened to both of these books over approximately the last month. They were riveting. The series seems complete but I would absolutely love to read another book in this universe. So interesting, so many ideas and thoughts. The basics of the story is that there is a galactic empire, the Teixcalaan, and there is an independent station (Lsel… so weird to see that in print after only hearing the word) who is concerned about…
Quick update. I’ve been super busy at work. I finished a book (Ancillary Sword, by Anne Leckie) more than a month ago and listened to an audiobook in the last week (A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine, which I really liked!) but haven’t had time to blog about either one. But that is not why I am here today. I found out just a few moments ago that the TL;DR anthology “Figments & Fragments”…
A quick update… I found out first thing this morning that I was one of the winners of the TL;DR 1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction 2024 Competition from April! Here is the official announcement. Great way to start my day, and the contract has been signed and sent back. Woo Hoo! I have heard good things about the TL;DR press from my writing community. First of all, they provide good feedback on the stories, no…
