Tag: Mars

Progress on the WIP: SciFi in the Making – Cover Reveal!

On By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Creative Writer, Fiction, Mars3 Comments

In a couple of days, I'll be announcing the launch (soft at present, as the official launch will occur on 19th November at Fantasticon 2016 in Hull). But, to keep you up to date, here's the cover of Blood Red Dust: Volume 1 (Generation Mars). This is my new science fiction novel. Watch this space …

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Progress on the WIP: SciFi in the Making.

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  The finished MS stands at 82,982 words, which includes the front and back matter. My publisher’s deadline was the end of August. I made it! Fantastic Books Publishing, run by the inimitable Dan and Gabi Grubb, are going to publish this science fiction novel. Yay! Cover design is already under way and the gang …

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Progress on the WIP: SciFi in the Making.

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  Close to the end! I spent a little over two days on the read aloud edit. That’s a demanding task both physically and mentally, but it’s the only way to detect certain mistakes and find those passages that fail to read well. Correcting the errors I found has taken another couple of days. The …

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How We’ll Live on Mars, by Stephen Petranek, Reviewed.

On By stuartakenIn Author, Book, Mars, Review2 Comments

There are times when a book comes into our lives at an appropriate moment. This was one such for me. I’d just spent a few days reviewing the research I’d been doing for a science fiction novel set on Mars. Amongst the websites I’d downloaded to consult on technical issues, I found references to this …

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