Rookie Privateer
When you are old enough to finally become an Earth Mars citizen, everything should be perfect. Right? Not for Liam Hoffen. He's stuck on a mining asteroid called Colony 40, helping his father work a claim that is never going to pay out. His best friend, Nick James is...
Fiction work classifications by word count
One of the things I have been struggling with is to know what to call the things I am working on. I recently learned that my upcoming second book, Naughty is Hard to Forget, will actually fall into the category of a Novella and not a Novelette. I am about 50%...
Rookie Privateer Final Editing
A number of my friends have asked how it is that I will edit Rookie Privateer. The answer is with an incredible amount of help from my family and friends. I have a wonderful group of readers that have read the manuscript and provided feedback from their perspective....
Naughty is Hard to Forget
Cover art provided by Sicilian Valkyrie on DeviantArt. Tumblr: http://sicilianvalkyrie.tumblr.com/ This is a rough sketch from an artist I am working with on DeviantArt.com. Good chance this will end up as the cover art for my next book which is a novelette.
Cover Artwork
The Rookie Privateer taking a rare moment to rest. Artist Kristina Del Valle
Waiting for readers to finish
I am new to the entire write/edit/publish process. It is a terrifying experience to take a story that you have worked hard on and give it to other people with the express purpose of having them tell you what is wrong with it. I question just how much criticism I can...
Wringing Wet Washcloth in Space
One of the test readers for Rookie Privateer sent me a link to this Nasa video. Commander Chris Hadfield demonstrates the unique properties of the surface tension of water in a zero gravity environment. Pretty much it is just...
Second book 20% written
One of the characters I introduced in Rookie Privateer was a pirate by the name of Celina Dontal. Celina's story is a hard luck story. She becomes separated from her only living relative a younger sister. The story is about how Celina overcomes the odds and brings her...
Rookie Privateer Summary
Liam Hoffen is a second generation asteroid miner from an out of the way mining colony in the main belt. His life is changed forever when he and his friends foil an attack on their home station by the Red Houzi pirates. As the proud new owner of a rundown old cutter...
Cover artist selected
I have asked Kristina Del Valle to work on the cover for Rookie Privateer. I was struck by a cover she drew for her own creative work. You can see Mystic South cover. I cannot wait to see what she comes up with for Rookie Privateer! She has agreed to allow me to...
The hard life of a graphic artist.
When I was building an android app called HealthTracker I worked with a graphic artist goopymart. I really want a fickle dragon for my blog so I contacted him to see what he could come up with. The picture below is not his, it is what I provided him. The funny...
A New Brand
Oh the fun of creative experiences. I couldn't believe my good luck to find that FickleDragon was available as a .com. I am not an extremely regular blogger but I need a place to discuss my writing projects. I had to consider if I wanted to make a new site for each...