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What would it take to keep a small town’s population alive, healthy, and sane for a 40 year trip through space? This was the foundational question that informed the design of the Requiem de la Lune, the ship that my book Of Oracles and Sirens is set on. Everything from the structure and layout of the ship to entertainment and options to enable human creativity with limited resources stemmed from this. As a space exploration geek, I have long been familiar with the challenging

Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report My manuscript is officially out for line and copy editing! I'm nearing the end of this journey for Of Oracles and Sirens and I could not be more excited! That said, I am now switching gears into full-steam marketing mode. Thus, I'm making some changes to this space in what I hope will be a more valuable edition of my usual blog posts. Firstly, these posts will be on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis going forward, larg

Its been an eventful day! I received the analysis of my 2nd draft from my editor a day early, much to my delight! They stated my revisions were spot on and rounded out the story perfectly, and also pointed out a few small continuity issues they had spotted. After fixing these, they recommend I move on to line and copy editing! I dove into making those revisions immediately, and with everything wrapped up the manuscript is now officially story-locked! This means the only chang

Having completed the edits to the book and then a quick proofread to clean up any inconsistencies, my 2nd draft of the manuscript is officially off to the editors! This time we're doing a targeted developmental edit of the additional and modified chapters to ensure the new character POVs flow with the rest of the book, and that I didn't miss any plot holes with the new content! I am certain that my editor will come back with some excellent suggestions for changes afterwards,

My second round of story-line updates has been completed! Moving over the summer combined with the stresses of getting our old house ready to sell definitely put a damper on the progress, but with that out of the way I've been moving through the edits eagerly. In response to the suggestions from my editor of the first draft I've adde a couple of point of view characters throughout the book, and I feel like their stories really help fill in some of the gaps. With their additio

My first couple weeks of time off from work have largely been eaten up with getting our old house ready to list, finally. Between that,...