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  • Character Interview: Alexan From Connected Realms

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    I am Alexan, Jarl of Ygg in Treemount, on Migurd. 2.Tell us where and when were you born. I was ‘born’ in the Empire of Humanity as a splinter of an ultsi. I became an independent entity when he made a mistake that ended up severing his soul from himself. My physical description changes as…

  • Background: Rediscovery and the Reverse Rabbit Hole

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    The inciting event in the prolog of The Man From Empire brings an Imperial human (Osh Scimtar di Baryan, informally ScOsh) to Earth, where he discovers some failed rebels from a long time ago have taken up residence on Earth, intending to use it as a base or springboard for attacks on the Empire. He…

  • Character Hijacking the Novel – Setting The Board

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    Yet another novel hijacked by a character who thought of something better. 17k words in, and all of the careful planning that got me to this point is out the window. The original plot is basically gone from this point on. Not complaining – this is better, despite the extra effort I’m going to need…

  • Review > The Demon Always Wins

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    TE: 05/14/2019 06:35:52 PM BODY:The Demon Always Wins by Jeanne Oates Estridge My rating: 4 of 5 stars Good interplay between characters The characters are the star of this book, the plot of which could almost be lifted from a twelfth century passion play. They are all well defined characters who do the things they…

  • What Types of Stories Do I Avoid as an Author?

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    Somebody asked that question, and it’s a good one. 1) Nanotechnology/”gray goo” I do write human wave sf. I can see the nanotech apocalypse maybe happening, but of the stories I’ve read, few of them have been interesting. Hivemind, lack of motivation, lack of emotions, lack of values, and the way they approach every problem…

  • My Author’s Brand

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    One thing I should try and make clear to you, the reader, is what my author’s brand is about. First and foremost, I want to entertain you. I will happily give up everything else in order to entertain. If you don’t come away from the book with a sense of “That was fun!” and wanting…

  • The Connected Worlds setting

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    Connected Worlds is an intentional riff on Zelazny’s Amber, Michael Moorcock’s Tanelorn, Brian Daley’s Cinnabar, and others – a center of the metaverse setting. The first book is The Fountains of Aescalon (Amazon link Books2Read link), the second book is The Monad Trap (Amazon link Books2Read link), and the third, in progress now, is tentatively…

  • Preparations for War – Series Overview

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    The premise of the series is that the Empire has discovered a planet orbiting Epsilon Indi held by the fractal demons, where they have been breeding enslaved humans for several thousand years, hoping to create human serfs who can compete with Imperial operants. It hasn’t been working out well for them – not only is…

  • Review: Pretty Waiter Girls by Greg Aldredge

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    Amazon link This is a coming of age story set in an alternate version of early twentieth century San Francisco in a world where inhuman creatures such as vampires and lycanthropes are real. It took me some time to figure out that what the author intended was neither “The Perils of Pauline” nor a Wooster…

  • KOR AND THE WINGLESS STRANGER by Sanna Hines

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    Amazon link The book feels like a guided tour with isolated stops and no feel as to how they all relate to each other. Go here, ask for help. Go there, ask for help. Every once in a while, it’s broken by something or other, none of which incidents particularly engaged me. None of the…