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Blog postHappy Thanksgiving to those with thanks to give. Commiserations to those who don’t and I hope 2022 goes better for you.
“Winter IS coming” to the northern hemisphere despite the occasional sunny days interspersed with rain here in Luxembourg. And to southern hemisphere readers: have a great summer!
Here are today’s updates:-
* Delayed Moonshot
* Andy’s Shorts
* Novels Delayed Moonshot
Bad news first. I’m sad to say the& -
Blog postHi! Back again!
I know some of you have missed me these past few months. Apologies. Heard of Long Covid?
It’s a long-term after-effect of Covid-19 infection. For about a year, I suffered apathy, lethargy, head-and-eye pain, and brain-fog. Not good for a writer. I came to a dead stop.
During that year I lost my only cousin and several friends to non-Covid illnesses. Finally, my “kid” sister lost her long fight against cancer in February, 2021. That finished off any spar -
Blog post(Due to interface changes by WordPress, the email version of my previous post got scrambled. Apologies. Here is the unscrambled, image-free version.)
I shelved my planned blog post due to amazing news. I’m going to the moon! Not me in person, but…
“Fly me to the moon…” Yes, there’ll be traces of McKell on the moon, soon.
Publishers of two anthology series have arranged with Astrobotic to land their books on the moon in mid-2021 on their Vulcan Centaur rocket platform! -
Blog postI shelved my planned blog post due to amazing news. I’m going to the moon! Not me in person, but…
“Fly me to the moon…” Yes, there’ll be traces of McKell on the moon, soon.
Publishers of two anthology series have arranged with https://www.astrobotic.com/ to land their books on the moon in mid-2021 on their Vulcan Centaur rocket platform!
And they include my stories! (Also available on planet Earth.) “Chronicle Worlds: Paradisi” contains my story, “Final Flight”
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Blog postCopyright: Adobe Space exploration. Space settlement. Space empires.
What’s the fascination?
It’s in our bones, or rather our genes.
Our ancestors and their precursors were not satisfied with the place they grew up in. Sub-Saharan dwellers spread out to occupy every habitable place in Africa. Their cousins headed north into Arabia, then Europe (where the Atlantic Ocean was an insurmountable obstacle for untold thousands of years). Others headed east through the Indian -
Blog postHi again!
2020 Hindsight I love sitting on my garden patio in the sunshine tapping away at my laptop, letting my subconscious pour my characters’ surprising adventures onto the screen. (Yes, I’m a “discovery writer”, or “pantser”.)
But no more sunshine.
After a long, dry, blazing summer in Luxembourg, the autumn equinox arrived. Within days, the rain hit. Days and days of it. Noah would be pleased. Ah, well. It’s good for the plants and forests, though it drove me indo -
Blog postLast time, I ended with, “But that’s another story, for next time.”
And here we are, so…
I was always fascinated by the way empires fall. Gibbons’ tale of the Roman Empire and Asimov’s Foundation series (inspired by Rome’s collapse) sparked my interest. In older days, the empires of Rome, China, Persia, Egypt, Huns, Mongols, Incas, and many others, collapsed. They fell to invasion, economic failure, or internal rifts. In more recent times the empires of Austria-Hungary, Nazi G -
Blog postLet me tell you a story… about a story.
Or maybe it’s about a writer.
Seven years ago I started to write a story. It grew like topsy. I was squeezing an epic series spanning thousands of years into a single novel. So I found break-points and spread the tale over three, then four, books with yet more in view.
I knew there was no way a novice author should launch a 6- or 7-book series on an unsuspecting reading public. So I changed direction, switchin -
Blog postIndependent writers are reporting in FaceBook groups a new culling of their 5-star reviews is underway on Amazon. Other reviews are blocked before they even appear on the book’s page. Yes, that’s indie authors’ 5-stars again. I guess if it happened to J.K. Rowling, there’d be a batch of 5-star corporate lawyers knocking on Amazon’s door within minutes.
Best-selling author and marketing guru Matt Dawson addressed this on his YouTube channel last time it happened. He said to just -
Blog postWell, that’s been a weird few weeks. Groundhog Day all over again every morning. “What day is it, today? Is it yesterday or tomorrow?”
The writing community seems to have fallen into two camps. Some were fired up, churning out thousands of words a minute, mainly about fictional global virus infections, it seems. (Good luck with sales.)
Other writers fell into a lethargy, with slipping deadlines and lengthening ‘To Do’ lists as the days blurred in an endless stream of
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Existence is Elsewhen
Mar 18, 2016
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