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June 2, 2013
Is Your Writing Following You?
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Progress continues with the adventures of Zak Corbin, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Finally gotten past some kind of halfway mark, although I think the word count will go from 70,000 to 75,000 depending on how it all plays out. I’ll update the ‘progress-o-tron’ accordingly. Zak is told to stay away [...]
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Progress continues with the adventures of Zak Corbin, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Finally gotten past some kind of halfway mark, although I think the word count will go from 70,000 to 75,000 depending on how it all plays out. I’ll update the ‘progress-o-tron’ accordingly. Zak is told to stay away [...]
May 24, 2013
Steampunk World’s Fair!
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Progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Wonder of wonders, I finally got past the 30,000 word mark. And I didn’t even notice it. So far, our intrepid young hero must tend to a robot that seems to have caught a mysterious ailment that’s slowly eating [...]
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Progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Wonder of wonders, I finally got past the 30,000 word mark. And I didn’t even notice it. So far, our intrepid young hero must tend to a robot that seems to have caught a mysterious ailment that’s slowly eating [...]
May 15, 2013
More Writing Underway and Another VANQUISH Image
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First the good news: Progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Okay, that’s not great but it is progress. Our intrepid boys are about to embark on an exploration of derelict research ship. Nice and creepy! I sent queries out to a number of prospective literary [...]
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First the good news: Progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. Okay, that’s not great but it is progress. Our intrepid boys are about to embark on an exploration of derelict research ship. Nice and creepy! I sent queries out to a number of prospective literary [...]
May 11, 2013
Progress on Zak Corbin: Neptune’s Fury
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And so progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. The plot so far: Zak and Pogo are called upon to rescue a research ship in distress. They encounter a way bigger, and malfunctioning, exploration robot. Lisabeth explains to Zak that she can’t spend the summer with [...]
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And so progress continues with the adventures of Zak, his friends and a certain seven-and-a-half foot tall robot. The plot so far: Zak and Pogo are called upon to rescue a research ship in distress. They encounter a way bigger, and malfunctioning, exploration robot. Lisabeth explains to Zak that she can’t spend the summer with [...]
May 9, 2013
VANQUISH Reviews!
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Just to make certain these wonderful bits aren’t lost, I’ve included the Publishers Weekly and your reviews of the excerpt by VANQUISH in the Amazon contest. ABNA Publishers Weekly Reviewer Briley McKynsie Bannatyne is a compelling young heroine. After their father, a fighter pilot, is killed, Briley and her brother Mackinley help to support their [...]
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Just to make certain these wonderful bits aren’t lost, I’ve included the Publishers Weekly and your reviews of the excerpt by VANQUISH in the Amazon contest. ABNA Publishers Weekly Reviewer Briley McKynsie Bannatyne is a compelling young heroine. After their father, a fighter pilot, is killed, Briley and her brother Mackinley help to support their [...]
May 6, 2013
VANQUISH Art – The Vanquish
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Here’s the last of Daryl’s illustrations. This is the mysterious plane mentioned in CALL TO THE KESTREL, but Daryl brings it to life here. The VANQISH … Vanquish The Vanquish was a single-engine, all-metal fighter-interceptor and fighter-bomber built by Speedman Aviation, a specialty builder better known for its racing seaplanes and monoplanes. The Vanquish made [...]
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Here’s the last of Daryl’s illustrations. This is the mysterious plane mentioned in CALL TO THE KESTREL, but Daryl brings it to life here. The VANQISH … Vanquish The Vanquish was a single-engine, all-metal fighter-interceptor and fighter-bomber built by Speedman Aviation, a specialty builder better known for its racing seaplanes and monoplanes. The Vanquish made [...]
May 3, 2013
VANQUISH Art – Planes of the Royal Air Militia
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So here at last are Daryl’s illustrations for the warplanes featured in VANQUISH. This story is set an an alternative past, so the aircraft you’re seeing might resemble real aircraft, but they are unique. Kudos to Daryl for including the “blueprint style” images which only adds to the authenticity of the images. Up first, the Lancer… [...]
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So here at last are Daryl’s illustrations for the warplanes featured in VANQUISH. This story is set an an alternative past, so the aircraft you’re seeing might resemble real aircraft, but they are unique. Kudos to Daryl for including the “blueprint style” images which only adds to the authenticity of the images. Up first, the Lancer… [...]
May 1, 2013
VANQUISH Facebook Timeline Art
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Time to show off more of Daryl Toh’s skills. This time, I’ll be showing off his progress towards the beautiful header image shown on this blog and on my Facebook author page. Daryl first created for me a wonderful Timeline image for ZAK CORBIN when I published the book last year. So when I approached [...]
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Time to show off more of Daryl Toh’s skills. This time, I’ll be showing off his progress towards the beautiful header image shown on this blog and on my Facebook author page. Daryl first created for me a wonderful Timeline image for ZAK CORBIN when I published the book last year. So when I approached [...]
April 30, 2013
VANQUISH Promotional Art
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As a writer, creating something from nothing is all part of the job. When you write, you make the rules, lay down the groundwork, research the facts, toss out what you don’t want and peck away at a keyboard until the words come out. So when an artist takes your little patch of nothing and [...]
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As a writer, creating something from nothing is all part of the job. When you write, you make the rules, lay down the groundwork, research the facts, toss out what you don’t want and peck away at a keyboard until the words come out. So when an artist takes your little patch of nothing and [...]
April 16, 2013
VANQUISH makes Amazon 2013 Contest Semi Finals!
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It was an even harder cut this year, but VANQUISH: CALL OF THE KESTREL made it to the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest for Young Adult fiction. The cut was down to five semi-finalists per category. That’s very good news! Download and read the first two chapters of VANQUISH for free on Amazon Kindle! What [...]
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It was an even harder cut this year, but VANQUISH: CALL OF THE KESTREL made it to the 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest for Young Adult fiction. The cut was down to five semi-finalists per category. That’s very good news! Download and read the first two chapters of VANQUISH for free on Amazon Kindle! What [...]
