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Voyage: Embarkation #8 Benevolence Released

Voyage: Embarkation #8 Benevolence is out today. The episode is available directly from this site in PDF, ePub, and Mobi formats. I’ve also submitted the file to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, iTunes and Smashwords. It should be available at all of those vendors … Continue reading →

Preview of Voyage: Embarkation #8 Benevolence

The Voyage series is seventy episodes long and is broken into five cycles: Embarkation, Windbound, Adrift, Wake and Tempest. Each of those cycles consists of fourteen episodes. That’s why eight is a special number. The first half of Embarkation is complete, … Continue reading →

Weekly Writing Update (May 3, 2013)

Accomplished This Week Insomnium 9 draft is complete. Insomnium 10 draft is complete. I did an editing pass on Embarkation #8 Benevolence, prepping it for release. I did an editing pass on Windbound 1, prepping it for group. I actually wrote … Continue reading →

The Structure of the Serial: Omega Story

ω I’ve gotten this question more than once: “Why serialize at all? Whats wrong with the novel format? Or the novel trilogy format?” Nothing’s wrong with those formats. I even have story ideas floating around my head that seem ideally … Continue reading →

Weekly Writing Update (Apr 26, 2013)

Accomplished This Week I constructed the epub for WJ Davies‘s Binary Cycle: Disruption, due out soon. I wrote the first scene of Insomnium 9. I worked really hard on getting all of my Voyage: Embarkation episodes available in the iBookstore. … Continue reading →

The Structure of the Serial: Delta Story

δ People often refer to children as “impressionable.” There was a point in my life, sometime in my early twenties, when I reflected on my childhood and adolscence and really started to put two and two together regarding this “impressionability” … Continue reading →

Weekly Writing Update (Apr 19, 2013)

Accomplished this Week I finished two drafts: Insomnium 7 & Insomnium 8 I outlined Insomnium 9 At a reader’s behest, I did an editing pass on Embarkation 5 & 6, and a corrected a handful of typos. I then reuploaded … Continue reading →

A Day Off

Dear loyal readership, I had intended, according to my schedule, to put up a blog post today about “delta story,” part of my ongoing series of blog posts about the structural components of serialized fiction. However, as I mentioned last … Continue reading →

Weekly Writing Update (Apr 12, 2013)

Accomplished This Week I released Voyage: Embarkation #7 Duality yesterday, Thursday, April 11, 2013. I also, very quietly, released a limited time special collection of Voyage: Embarkation episodes #1-7 this morning. This is to celebrate the landmark of seven episodes. Each … Continue reading →

Voyage: Embarkation #7 Duality Released

  Voyage: Embarkation #7 Duality is out today. The episode is available directly from this site in PDF, Epub and Mobi formats. I’ve also submitted the file to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and Smashwords. It should be available at all of those vendors … Continue reading →