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Islands, Endeavor, and Forging
You can get autographed copies of Artemis Rising, Celestial Accord, or Mirim’s First Christmas at the Granbury Winter Wrap-up Market Saturday. One location for Antarctic Honeymoon is one of the few islands near Antarctica that was known in 1891. Peter I Island, named after Tsar Peter I and discovered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen on…
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Characters, Endeavor, and Weddings
You can get autographed copies of Artemis Rising, Celestial Accord, or Mirim’s First Christmas at the Downtown Arlington Farmer’s Market Saturday. Got Fiverr folks to start work on an illustration of Endeavor. She will likely figure prominently on Walter & Eleanor book covers, so this will need to be pretty high quality. A new character…
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Forging to Editor!
Artemis Rising is #3,826 in Space Exploration Science Fiction ebooks, #3,785 in Alternate History Science Fiction, and #5,797 in First Contact Science Fiction. If you don’t have yours yet, you can get the paper version here or the kindle version here. There is also an audiobook version here. Five customer reviews now (thanks Rick). I…
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Party Crashers
Artemis Rising is #993 in Steampunk Fiction (Kindle Store), #1,158 in Steampunk Fiction, and #2,655 in Alternative History. There are still just 2 customer reviews – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so. I’m getting some readers in Kindle, so that is encouraging. As I mentioned last week, the…
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Research In Galveston
Artemis Rising is #860 in Steampunk Fiction, #2,344 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #799 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store). There are 2 customer reviews – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so. In the late Victorian and Gilded ages, the rich and powerful were more likely…
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Found Selenite Embassy
Artemis Rising is #351 in Steampunk Fiction, #1,384 in Alternate History Science Fiction (Books), and #1,436 in Steampunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store). There are 2 customer reviews – if you’ve finished the book and haven’t left a review, please do so. More progress on Antarctic Honeymoon. Mirim for the WIN has finished its first week…
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Mirim is being Edited
One of the oldest catalogues of lunar craters is Charte der Gebirge des Mondes by J.F.J. Schmidt. This is the book that Thoma scanned and sent to Crystal Keep for them to use in updating their map of the lunar surface and placing Earth names on features. Sent Mirim for the WIN to my editor,…
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Week of June 11
I ordered a map of Galveston for Mirim for the WIN the first one came in and it looks excellent. If the second doesn’t look significantly better, Tomas’ map will be the one in Mirim for the WIN. Box magazines, the ancestors of those used on modern assault rifles, were invented in the late 19th…
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Progress as of 4 June 2025
As you can see above, the cover mockup for Antarctic Honeymoon has been updated. I’ll need to get a photo-realistic image of the Endeavor to replace the AI image on the cover. Anyone know a good spaceship designer? I modified the blurb for Antarctic Honeymoon – see it here. Found out some about the wives…
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Week of April 28, 2025
I’m going to try and blog at least once a week. I’m not going to go back and try to figure out all the cool stuff I’ve learned since Mirim got a cover, but here is some stuff that happened in the last week or so. Just a note, I’m currently writing in chapter 13…