Trader’s Diary

Apparently my email list is no longer supported here and I’ve lost access to it. I’m working to get a new list up and running.

Bear with me while we fumble under the hood.

[Update]: I recovered the list of addresses and I’ve installed a new list. You should be getting email from me tomorrow. I wanna make sure it’s actually doing what I think it is before I send out a message.

A Trader’s Tale from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper

UPDATE: Sept 26. If you’re following comments, or Podiobooks on Twitter, or any number of other news outlets, you know that we’ve got a release date of Sept 30. I’ve got the first episode through QC after several false starts (thank you iTunes for hiding what my ID3 tags really looked like — not) and I’m on track to have at least five episodes ready to go when the gates open.

UPDATE: Sept 29. It’s almost midnight on the East Coast of the US and already the 30th in large portions of the globe. Captain’s Share is going live in the next few minutes. I’ll get it posted to iTunes as soon as I can.

Enjoy.

I’m way behind and I need to upgrade.

I hope this doesn’t screw up too much, but it needs to happen.

Bear with me

It was a strong field and the newcomer to the mix beat us out.

Congrats to James Durham and FETIDUS for a double Parsec win.

Time to start planning for next year.

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 the second draft.

I’d really hoped to have at least the first chapters released to Podiobooks before Labor Day and the Parsec Awards, and for that I apologize. I’m still on track to get it released before the official end of Summer (September 21st).

And I still need music. Suggestions are welcome.

Ok, back to the work already in progress.

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 can find it at JustinMacumber.com. If you’re looking for something to read while I finish up the last few chapters in Captain’s Share …

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 put a serious crimp in my writing. If you followed the tweets you probably know more than you really wanted to. At any rate, I’m more or less up-right today, having slept for a lot of the last 36 hours and gotten the meds going. I don’t expect to get back up to full steam for a few more days but I’m really happy with the way the book is going so far, and the first readers are being very positive.

I was hoping to have the first draft done this week, but with the medical issues, that might be pushed back a week. I’m still hoping for the first batch of episodes to drop at podiobooks by the end of the month…

Assuming I can find music, and get the cover done

Thanks for all your good wishes and keep your fingers crossed for smooth sailing for the rest of this voyage.

The finalist list for 2008-2009 Parsec Award is up and Double Share made it. Thank you, judges, for picking me for the second year in a row. This makes the third one of my books to make it to the finals list. I’m feeling truly honored!

The competition is pretty strong so I’m not holding my breath but still the extra exposure will be very welcome, particularly since I better have Captain’s Share hitting the interwebs about the time the winner is announced.

Fingers crossed!

For the third year in a row, I’ve got a book in the Parsec Awards. To be eligible for a Parsec Award this year the podcast had to have been made between May 1, 2008, and April 31, 2009. The only title eligible this year is Double Share, because I’m such a derelict I only wrote and podcast a single title last year.

As part of that effort, I had to put together a 1-hour sample file of up to 6-clips from the novel as examples of what the book was.

Here it is for your listening pleasure. It’s 5seconds short of an hour.

 

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