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Capclave: After Action Report

I enjoyed Capclave. It’s a science-fiction convention in Maryland put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association. I did a talk on space law that had a good number of people turn up. Someone who used to work at NASA as an engineer was in the audience, and everyone else seemed keen on the topic. One person even took notes. I was impressed.

I spoke from Powerpoint slides about the three U.S. regulatory agencies, the FAA, the FCC, and NOAA. I talked the most about the FAA, because that’s wh...

I was wrong

I was not wrong that titles are difficult.  I was wrong about what poem could help me out with the tale of the pan, Peter Dawe.  Then I was wrong again.

In my teens, when I held to the deep conviction that Francis Crawford of Lymond from Dorothy Dunnett’s Game of Kings was the most noble, most intelligent, and most handsome of men, I wanted to be like him.  He had a stock of poetry memorized* with a pithy quote for any occasion that required a pithy quote, whether snarky or droll.  He was a m...

Capclave

I am looking forward to attending Capclave, the area science fiction convention, again this year.  It’s been a while since I’ve gone.  For a while now it’s been on Columbus Day weekend, which has been coinciding with my sons’ fall breaks from college.  This meant that, through no one’s fault but my own, I couldn’t go.  If they were only home for a long weekend, I had to stick around the house to spend as much time with them as I could.

They graduated last year, and no longer live at home.  I...

Titles are hard

I was clever this time.  When I published Like a Continental Soldier, the final book in the Waking Late trilogy,  I was already writing my next book.  Having a new project in motion helps prevent that giant feeling of let-down that comes with the end of any large project.  In fact, my next novel is almost drafted, but I keep messing up the grand finale.  I’m working on that.

I’ve decided that the reason I can’t get the end straight is because I don’t have a good title.  I have therefore, natu...

Able to Give it Away–Thank you!

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent Sleeping Duty to #1 in the categories Space Marines, Colonization, and Space Opera (free books) for these five days.  It’s been really exciting to watch it climb.  There’s a lot of discussion in the author community about whether it’s worth it to discount a whole book to free, but the free book has started to drive sales of the other two in the trilogy–which was kind of the point of the exercise–so that’s a good result.

With the publication of th...

Just Released: Like a Continental Soldier

The final book in the Waking Late trilogy, Like a Continental Soldier, is now published.  I do love saying that.  The little glitches with the Amazon pages are worked out, and it shows it’s part of a series.  It’s even available this week at the low, introductory price of 99 cents.  Get it now!  And, for those of you who haven’t read the first one, Sleeping Duty, it’s free.

Ahem.  All pushy salesmanship aside, I’m really happy.

To the readers of this series, I hope you are, too.

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Like A Continental Soldier: The Blurb

The grand finale to the Waking Late trilogy is coming soon.  Here’s the blurb:

The starship Valerie Hall failed to reach the terraformed world of its original destination. Instead, it found a habitable substitute where the settlers split into two factions. First Landing devolved into a rude replica of medieval despotism.

Seccon might promise more. Or so hope Gilead Tan and his companions.

Gilead spent three centuries in cold sleep, held there by a First Landing custom that decreed only one sl...

Coming Soon: Like A Continental Soldier. Also, Launch Fever.

I am starting to get launch fever.  Apparently, one can get it not just for rocket launches, but for book launches, too.

I first heard about launch fever when I worked at the FAA.  We were studying and adopting the Air Force’s safety requirements for incorporation into FAA regulations.  We at the FAA called this codifying current practice and insisted that it would not raise anyone’s costs because the Air Force ranges were already making everyone do all of it anyway.  The engineers who worked...

The Space Show

If you are interested, the podcast of my appearance on the Space Show is available now here.  Dr. Livingston and I talked about regulation, property rights, and planetary protection.  We had a good chat.

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Rapunzel

Rapunzel is now live!  It’s available on Amazon for Kindle and through Kindle Unlimited.

FAA attorney Terrence Rogers dreams of space, but he spends his days on informed consent for space tourists. Young foreign service officer Hal Cooper faces real change with the arrival of an alien spaceship, but it means something else for Terrence.

A short story.

Check it out, and see what you think.

 

 

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