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So over at Mythology Press which is the fantasy arm of Chris Kennedy Publishing, they had an open submission call.
I shrugged my shoulders and said why not.
Much to my surprise the editor picked my story.  We went through several iterations with each other and I think the final story is definitely worth the price of admission.  Oh also some really good authors are in there as well like Glen Cook.
Here is the link: https://amzn.to/4b6lCma

Let me know what you think.

Goals for 2021.  I like many people have a thousand goals rushing through my head during December to kickstart my year and make it the best year ever.  I have learned that I need to tone it back a bit. So I am keeping it simple this year.  Exercise 15 minutes every day.  Even if it is just stretching for those 15 minutes.  Write everyday.  Goal is 500 words but just make sure it isn’t zero.  Finally, work on getting better at my day job.  Currently it is bringing in the main amount of money.  So the better I do at that, then the more I have to get an editor and covers and write more. So for fun, I have been playing Summoner’s War using bluestacks.  It is fun and a nice diversion.  They have almost got it to be hands off.  You can run 25 minutes of fights without clicking buttons.  Which is a perfect time for me to write during.  Then my pomodoro is up and I can click a few time and advance the game and then back to writing again. I didn’t finish Titan so I returned it and asked for another hold which should be later on this month.  I have been reading the e-zine Sharpnel by Catalyst Game Labs crew.  They have been a fun read.  Battletech was the way I got into big stompy robots.  Well Battletech and Macross.  I am looking forward to seeing if I pay some homage of those into my next series. I have about 22k words left on the first draft of ACE Cycle Book 2.  I am aiming to finish them early February and then go straight into revision.  I want to get it to my editor by the beginning of March. Catch you at the beginning of February for more ACE updates.  Here is an affiliate link to Sharpnel.  I think its worth a read:   Stay Safe ACEs

Raising ACEs released in November 2020

Two Years in the making and all of my knowledge of book writing

Can three friends and an AI take over the world before the Empire comes back to subjugate them? Almost 500 years ago, the Empire made an example of the planet Randver. They bombed all major population centers and left a fleet to ensure no one approached or left the planet. The Emperor declared the planet Quarantined for 500 years. 20 years ago, A dormant AI reactivated and started working on the infrastructure to repel the Empire when they returned. They couldn’t fight the Empire head to head, but they could start on the technology to fight the Empire ACE to ACE. In a few days, Mikael, Dagny and Johan are going to graduate from the Randveri Military Academy and be given a choice. Help the AI take over the world or let the Empire come back and take over. Will they join with the AI? Will they succeed? Find out in the first of the ACE Cycle books: Raising ACEs.

Buy Raising ACEs now on Amazon

I have signed up for a few authors sites as beta readers.  I am learning craft while I am still working on my books.  I feel it is something that I will never perfect since no one is ever perfect and that is especially true with creative works.  I am going to ship my first book and realize that I could have changed a few scenes to make it even better.  Hopefully I can take those and put them into the next book and make that better and so on and so forth.

They say that it gets easier the more books you write.  All I can say is that I sincerely hope so because this is a slog at the moment.

I had a great Career Author summit.  It was virtual due to Covid-19.  But it was probably a better experience since I didn’t have to go back to the hotel between sessions and I could join all of them.  My wife watched the kids and I got in 90 percent of the sessions.  It was awesome.  Learned a bunch and now I just got to put it into practice.  I am looking forward to when they lock down the next Career Author Summit.

A group of authors are getting together for an accountability group.  I joined in.  So far I have been far more productive than I have in most of April so that is good.  Just got to keep up the momentum.  Hopefully I can get these books out the door this year.

I have been reading Rick Paltrow’s Drop Trooper series:

 

Rick is usually hanging out on Keystroke Medium’s live streams and is a pretty cool guy.  The series is good too.  Those links are connected to my affiliate account but the books are good anyway you get them.

 

So I like all things sci-fi and figured I would share a YouTube channel I use for some of my research while I am writing.  The creator is very knowledgeable and goes in depth into many topics.  The channel is Issac Arhtur’s Science and Futurism channel

Also if you haven’t checked out Scott Manley’s channel it has great things on all current metal going through our atmosphere into space.

Finally Sci Show Space has a great Channel that breaks down everything dealing with space.

Just some good places to start to learn more about space and futurology.