by Dan | Oct 4, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing, Sci-fi, Space
Excitingly (for me) I have my first comments back from a beta reader on my latest book and they are incredibly invaluable, as always. Without someone else’s eyes on your work, you can’t get an idea of how a story reads and what comes across – and...
by Dan | Sep 20, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing, Sci-fi, Space
When the author can’t control his word count? As I’m not a full-time writer, I have been attempting to write shorter novels so that I can release more of them and release them more often. I was unable to keep the last two under 100,000 words (assuming 250...
by Dan | Sep 15, 2016 | Book Reviews, Galactic Arena, Indie publishing
It’s been about 3 weeks since the launch of Orb Station Zero, the first of my new science fiction series. It has done really well, sold many more than I ever have before and has been well inside the top #100 in all the relevant scifi categories on Amazon since...
by Dan | Sep 11, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Indie publishing
Orb Station Zero is a science fiction novel set on a spaceship about fighting aliens. It is not, never has been, never can be a superhero novel. And yet. Kindle has placed it in the Superhero category. It stands out like a sore thumb amongst the ACTUAL urban fantasy...
by Dan | Sep 7, 2016 | Galactic Arena, Sci-fi, writing
Humanity’s first contact with an alien civilization. Only, there are no real humans for five billion miles. Are there? Following the release of Orb Station Zero, I’m now writing a prequel novella about the first contact between humanity and the alien Orb....
by Dan | Aug 29, 2016 | Book Reviews, Galactic Arena, Sci-fi
Rama Seti didn’t exactly volunteer. His head was cut off and grafted onto the body of an 8ft tall, genetically engineered super soldier and then blasted into the outer Sol System. After all, someone has to battle the giant alien warrior and decide the fate of...
