Trader’s Diary

Just a quick note and an apology. I thought we’d have the first draft done by now. It’s very, very close. Perhaps fewer than 10,000 words from the end. The book in its current draft is already about 145k words but will probably get cut down to something closer to 125 before I’m done with [...]

Some of you might recognize the name, Justin Macumber as a member of the Dead Robot’s Society. I’ve done a couple of guest spots on there recently talking about writing in general and my work in particular. He’s also an author and has just made one of his short stories available as a chapbook. You [...]

I had to take a little break from the writing this morning, and I used it to find the image I wanted to use for Captain’s Share at the Hubble Site. The background image is NGC 1316, The Dusty Galaxy.

The book is shaping up nicely. I was able to start really hammering it at the end of July and managed to do 40,000 words the first week of work. I had a very productive weekend and it’s almost at 60,000 now (58.5k) to be more accurate. Unfortunately, I had a little medical issue that’s [...]