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A second snippet of New Canaan coming your way. Remember, these are uneditied snippets for you to enjoy before the book comes out on April 2....

I thought I'd drop a note here too on this. I'm running an Amazon Giveaway for a free Kindle copy of Destiny Lost. All you have to do to enter the giveaway is tweet a message.

Here's the URL to enter: http://amzn.to/2n5QgVO

There's a lot coming your way in 2017. I've been on this journey creating the Aeon 14 universe since 2009, and its incredibly exciting to see it really taking shape.

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If you follow me on Facebook, or subscribe to my newsletter, then this isn't news, but for any folks that happen by, I want to share some great news with you. A new science fiction author, named Chris J. Pike, is co-authoring a series of books in the Aeon 14 universe with me. This is pretty awesome and is just the start of a group of authors plying their pens in the deep black of Aeon 14. Chris has chosen to write a story about what happens in the Silstrand Alliance after Tanis trades her advanced nano-tech for weapons to S&H Defensive Armaments. Sera worried that the tech could des...

I've had a few questions about the reading order of the books that are out, and those that are on their way. I figured that it has been a bit since I blogged, so I thought this could be a good topic....

If you have not read Building Victoria, you may want to do so before reading this post....

The other star that occupies most of the sky during Building Victoria, is Kapteyn's Star. I find this start to be incredibly fascinating. From its unusual name, to its origins, it is a star like few in our neighborhood....

In Building Victoria, the characters bring us to two new stars. The first we encounter is Sirius. Hot and young, Sirius is the brightest star (excepting Sol, aka our sun) in our skies....

As my wife will certainly attest to, I'm a bit particular about details in my stories. For example, there's an opening scene in Outsystem where Tanis switches her rifle to fire a proton beam to destroy an enemy position. While it seems like a tiny bit of minutia, I did many hours of research to determine that most theoretical energy weapons deliver beams of either photons or electrons. These deliver their destructive power in the form of pure energy creating heat, or energy and a little bit of kinetic impact (in the case of electrons--though those mostly just emit more photons at the point...