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Where Did You Go?

“Here actually.” I was talking to some SFF convention friends recently who were wondering if I’d fallen off the face of the Earth. Apparently, the prevailing sentiment is that I’ve worked some voodoo and disappeared. To anyone living beyond our moat, I suppose I have.

Well, it’s true we moved to an island so if you don’t have a boat you may want to reconsider a visit. Serenity Base Camp has been a win for me, and that’s for certain. Despite all the hassles of my castle, I havefound my place...

The Indie Trap: Or How I Learned to Play Non-Zero-Sums

My wife recently made the observation that I’m blogging a great deal about my struggles as a writer, and more specifically about the challenges I’ve encountered as I try to generate income from the work I do. And, after some consideration, I have to agree with her. She’s a super smart lady, and I’m lucky to have met her because she’s always got my best interests at heart.

If I were smarter, I’d just reply with a simple “Yep!” and then go do whatever she just told me to do. Writing about writi...

Alt.Chronicles: Legacy Fleet ARCs

I have in my hand three hot copies of an upcoming release ALT.Chronicles: Legacy Fleet, a Samuel Peralta anthology debuting later this month. One of my stories, written within Nick Webb’s universe, is featured in this collection, and this means that I have three Advanced Reader Copies to pass around. Three.

So, my Sunday morning dilemma is this: I’d like to pass these around to all my patrons, but I can only give them to three people. It’s imperative that I tell you that these copies come wi...

A Brief Review of Patreon

So far, so good. I launched my Patreon campaignsix days ago and thanks to some heavy lifting from friends and family we’ve already beaten my first funding goal, and we’re quickly approaching the second.

When I started this I did not expect that people would be knocking down my door to get access, but I guess I also worried that people would just write me off — another artist casualty, a little guy swimming in an ocean too deep.

Apparently asking can make a world of difference. Since I began...

IOTD

A reminder: Be excited about the work that’s before you.

Patreon, An Update

Salutations friends! I just finished my Patreoncampaign, and you guessed it, now the real work begins.

I’ve contracted with two different, very different artists, for two stories I’m going to use to launch this effort. Digital proofs are being worked on as I type. Then there are the stories themselves.

Currently, I’m 99% done with my next sports-in-space novel. Up Slope is jam packed with action, science, cool technology great characters all packed into an exoticlocation somewhere in this so...

IOTD

Tera Nam – Live at Gertrude Street Yoga Studio from Aarti Jadu & Matt Coldrick on Vimeo.

Chronicle World’s Legacy Fleet

Yeah, this is an announcement with a cover reveal. Coming in August from The Future Chronicles and the universe of Nick Endi Webb‘s bestselling trilogy Constitution, Warrior, and Victory.

CHRONICLE WORLDS: LEGACY FLEET

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Chronicle Worlds: Legacy Fleet is Samuel Peralta, Nick Endi Webb, Therin Knite, Dave Monk Fraser Adams, Peter Cawdron, Patrice Fitzgerald, Kat Fieler, Jon Frater, Kev Heritage, Ralph Kern, Joseph Lewis, James McCormick (J.E. Mac), Felix R Savage, Will Swardstrom, Matthew Ala...

A Challenge to Futurists

I love futurists, the very idea that we can take a statistical model and from the information revealed divine what might occur in the future is a spectacular feat of magic. And, in saying just that, I should be clear, I’m not suggesting that there is a problem with this process. The models are as accurate as the data from which they’re derived.

But there is an art to modeling as there is a science. And I suppose that many futurists tend toward optimistic predictions. For instance, take this q...

Toxicity

I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart.All this cause I did a movie.You can hate the movie but the shit I got today…wrong

— Leslie Jones (@Lesdoggg) July 19, 2016

The degree to which a substance (a toxin or poison) can harm a being varies, but it’s something we can study. Toxic behavior, especially on the male side of our society, is apparently growing like a algae bloom in an over-heated Florida lake. It’s everywhere and it’s perhaps the saddest component of our shared Am...