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The Story of Getting The Descendant Printed
Blog post Number 20 Written:06-06-2021 Uploaded 06-04-2022 I’ll try and keep this to a reasonable length, if I start talking about my book, sometimes I don’t stop. I’m very proud of it. I started life as a fantasy fan. But later because of the influences of Orson Scott Card and BattleTech, I was converted to…
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Tactics and Strategies in Video Games
Blog Post Number 19 Written:06-05-21 Uploaded:05-27-2022 I know this seems kind of off topic since I am a sci-fi author and this is about video games, but I am also a PC gamer, and I love me some hardcore first-person shooters. Tittles Like Squad, Arma III, Insurgency Sandstorm, Ground Branch, Hell Let Loose, Post Scriptum,…
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Character backstory for Captain Lydia Litvak
Blog Post Number 18 Written: 06-04-2021 Uploaded: 05-20-2022 Captain Lydia Litvak is not a happy story, but she’s not a sad story either. Her father was a hardcore career military man, and her mother passed due to cancer in her early teens. As such, her teenage years were hard and lonely. She spent much of…
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Significant Historical Events
Blog post Number 17 Written: 06-02-2021 Uploaded: 05-13-2022 I have a list of topics to write about for these blog posts I have been spamming out, and on that list, one of them is “significant historical events” I’m sure at the time when I wrote the list, that meant something profound, but now I have…
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Backstory and lore of the Balaur
Blog post Number 16 Written: 06-01-2021 Uploaded: 05-06-2022 For a long time, I called the Balaur “dragons”. It wasn’t until after the contract was signed and the book was less than a month from publication that the name was changed from Dragon to Balaur. This was the last significant change to the book that constituted…
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Math for Ship Orbits
Blog post Number 15 Written:05-30-2021 Uploaded 04-29-2022 I know I am bad at math, but bear with me, I have actually done some of the astrodynamic calculations for my books, but really only the second book with… we’ll you’ll see. Anyway, I was trying to figure out orbital velocity, because I needed to know how…
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The King of Hammers
Blog Post Number 14 Written 05-28-2021 Posted 04-22-2022 I’ve got a couple of high school friends, one of which is the owner/driver of an off-road racing team that participates in the Ultra4 league, another of which also serves as the marketing and media coordinator for the team. I like to think of myself as pit…
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Playing Video Games
Blog Post Number 13 Written: 05-27-2021 Uploaded: 04-16-2022 Like most self proclaimed nerds, I play video games. I started seriously playing when Halo 2 was released. That was my first game, after that I played Call of duty religiously. Starting with all three Modern Warfare’s and World at War. But I kept playing into Ghosts,…
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Lore Timeline
Blog post Number 12 Written: 05-26-2021 Uploaded 04-11-2022 Note: I’m sorry I missed my regular upload date last Friday, I had some vehicle trouble and that messed up the whole weekend and I just never got around to it. So here it is, Monday, and I’m finally copy pasting my word doc. Also, notice the…
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Things I have learned
Blog Post Number 11 Written 05-25-2021 Uploaded: 04-01-2022 I have learned a bunch, lots of self-taught skills since the book publishing process started. I came from a small town, living under a rock. I liked it that way, maybe I still prefer it that way in some regards. As I was writing, I learned how…
Chace Randolph 