New Patreon content! Novel excerpt and new review series!

I’m relaunching my Patreon’s Original Fiction tier, now just $3 per month, with an excerpt from my novel in progress Arachne’s Legacy, the third book in the Arachne series of interstellar adventure and intrigue. This is from the current draft of the novel, which has not yet been through editorial review or revisions. But I wanted to offer something cool to commemorate the relaunch. Writing Legacy has ended up taking me most of the year, so I don’t have much else to offer just yet.

In this sample, the crew of the starship Arachne contacts a mysterious, dangerous new order of interstellar life in search of a way to fulfill their clandestine mission on behalf of humanity. To gain the information they need, will they have to sacrifice one of their own?

https://www.patreon.com/posts/fiction-arachnes-92404572

Also, to relaunch my Reviews tier at the new $2/month level, I’ve begun revisiting one of my favorite TV series of all time: Alien Nation, based on the feature film of the same name. I call this a revisit instead of a rewatch, because I’m in the rare position of being able to cover everything—not just the 1988 movie, the single 1989-90 TV season, and the five 1994-5 revival TV movies, but every novel, every comic, even a few unfilmed scripts. I always hoped I’d be able to pull together a comprehensive overview like this, both for my own entertainment and for my online reviews, and I’m very pleased that I was able to achieve it now. I’m starting off with a FREE review of the movie, available to all readers, in hopes that it will bring in some new subscribers for the remainder of the revisit.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/revisiting-alien-92294929

This comprehensive series consists of 40 posts in all, so I’m going to publish twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. Patreon has recently introduced the ability to create collections to organize our posts, so all future Alien Nation posts can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/200870?view=condensed