Category: Consortium

  • Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #2

    Friday’s Findings: July 2022 Camp NaNoWriMo Update #2

    Word count: 17,000 I recently watched YouTuber Nick Sturgeon’s video Camp NaNoWriMo: Have Fun with Your Writing. One thing he said stuck out to me: “It’s okay. You had a bad day. Today things didn’t go according to plan. But that’s okay. This is just Camp Nanowrimo. It’s a practice. It’s a first attempt at…

  • Traption now available for pre-order

    Traption now available for pre-order

    You can never go home again. Unless someone is forcing you. Bandonn FarPacer just wants to enjoy his vacation on the paradise moon Figuola. But mysterious robotic beings are spying on him and his friends everywhere they go. What are they? And why do they look so familiar to him? Andrew M. Friday My new…

  • Should I Use Kindle Create? Barnes & Noble Press?

    Should I Use Kindle Create? Barnes & Noble Press?

    Some quick tips on using Kindle Create and Barnes and Noble Press: I am about to release my novella Traption and I have been preparing it in Kindle Create. So the question is: should you Kindle Create to get your books on Amazon.com? Do I have to use Kindle Create or Barnes and Noble Press?…

  • Friday’s Findings: Hands Off Read Through

    Friday’s Findings: Hands Off Read Through

    This week I have been doing a “hands off read through” of my novella Traption. No reworking scenes, no editing paragraphs, no tweaking words; just reading through this draft I completed during Camp NaNoWriMo in April. Hands off the words. Some of the things I’m looking for: Does my story have a solid structure? Does…

  • Book Giveaway on Librarything.com

    Book Giveaway on Librarything.com

    I am hosting a giveaway of my science fiction novella WhereHow on LibraryThing.com. If you are a member of this website (it’s free), you can sign up for free giveaways every month. The giveaway is for the print version of WhereHow. Readers have until February 17th, 2021 to request one of five copies being given…

  • Some Books I read this year: new and old science fiction favorites

    Some Books I read this year: new and old science fiction favorites

    I say science fiction and fantasy novels are my guilty pleasure. But do I really have anything to feel guilty about? Of course not. Science fiction is a way more respected genre than it was a few decades ago, and I’m not ashamed to day I enjoyed the following SF books this past year: Tiamat’s…

  • Friday’s Findings

    Friday’s Findings

    It’s Friday and I have a lot of things to do this weekend for my writing. First, I need to format the paperback version of my latest novella, WhereHow; the ebook version is now available. Secondly, I need to work on the next episode in my novella series, Consortium; it’s called Traption. And finally, I…

  • WhereHow Now available for preorder

    WhereHow Now available for preorder

    WhereHow, the third installment of my space opera series, Consortium, is now available as an ebook preorder on Amazon. Here’s a preview: At first, neither the ships nor the inhabitants of the ships interfered with them. That changed. WhereHow, Episode 3 of the Consortium The Xyce — the only known indigenous inhabitants from the WhereHow…

  • Am I Crazy?

    Am I Crazy?

    I haven’t blogged much for the past two weeks because I’ve been busy finishing my latest episode for my space opera series Consortium. The third book should be coming out July 15. I’ll post on here when it is available for pre-order. So, I have a few writing projects (or works-in-progress, as writers say) on…