H. Paul Honsinger's Blog, page 8
November 2, 2013
Battle at the Barricades
All of my battles get plotted out on this white board, even the comparatively simple ones such as this skirmish I’m writing today between Union Marines and Krag spacers on board a Krag cruiser. There is some trial and error involved–sometimes what sounds like a bright idea is shown to be rather dim when plotted on the board. As you can see, my handwriting truly sucks.
Hear a Short Reading from “To Honor You Call Us”
Mack Meijers, host of the truly excellent “Science Fiction Spotlight” podcast program, gave a brief reading from the first volume of my “Man of War” series, To Honor You Call Us, on his show. If you will look at the right hand border of this page, you will see that I have cleverly installed a “widget” that will let you listen to that reading just by clicking on the play button. Or, if you prefer, you can navigate to the program’s page for the reading by clicking on the link below.
Maybe I’ll put a few readings up on this page sometime. Of course, if I do it, it won’t be with Mack’s truly posh English accent. Or, it could be, as I actually am pretty good with accents and do a passable Received English (also known as BBC English) accent. Naaaa. If I do it, I’ll do it with my normal voice, which is nothing to write home about. Anyway, here’s the link.
October 30, 2013
Even MORE CIC Geek Fuel
I’ve just posted a detailed discussion of the Systems Stations in the Cumberland CIC in the Inside the USS Cumberland Section. The direct link to the page is here: http://hpaulhonsinger.com/inside-the-uss-cumberland/the-cic-part-iv-the-systems-management-consoles/
1500 Page Views!
In the 15 days since this site went online, we’ve had 1500 page views. That means an average of how many views per day? Hmmm. Let me get my calculator.
October 29, 2013
Price Reduction
Because we will soon be withdrawing them from sale, we have reduced the price of the self-published Kindle editions of both currently-available books, To Honor You Call Us and For Honor We Stand from $5.99 to $4.99. They will remain at that price until we take them off the market sometime in January. We hope that people who have been on the fence about buying will get off the fence and take advantage of their chance to read these books now rather than waiting for the 47North editions. Of course, we also hope that readers will enjoy them so much that they will also want to read the 47North versions when they come out. Here are the links to the purchase pages:
Book I: http://www.amazon.com/Honor-You-Call-Man-War-ebook/dp/B00A1VFFVM/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
Book II: http://www.amazon.com/For-Honor-Stand-Man-War-ebook/dp/B00BFE6IOC/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1
October 28, 2013
Detail, Detail, Detail!!!
In response to the highly cogent suggestions from one of my most perspicacious readers, I have significantly beefed up the page relating to the Maneuvering Stations, primarily to answer the burning questions which I’m sure have kept many of you awake night after night, thrashing in your sheets saturated with acrid sweat of angst and frustration:
1. Why does it take four men to steer the ship when one man can fly an airplane just fine?
2. Why do we need a Maneuvering Chief to give orders to Yaw, Pitch, and Drives? Why doesn’t the CO just tell them what to do directly?
If these are the kinds of issues at which your detail-oriented brain picks compulsively, like a seven-year old boy with a scab on his knee, then you should fly (FLY, I tell you FLY!) to this page so that your mind will no longer be gnawed by the cankering tooth of mystery (gratuitous Gilbert & Sullivan reference).
http://hpaulhonsinger.com/inside-the-uss-cumberland/the-cic-part-iii-maneuvering-stations/
