Delphi in Space

 Delphi Challenge, book nine, is coming out on Jan 5th.  It's available for preorder now.   The next book Delphi League is at the Editors. I'm actually working on book four of the Stone Series.  I've got a beginning, middle, and end, but now I have to write all the parts in between.  It was really hard to switch series.  It took three weeks before I quit writing the Delphi Series in my head.  I hope it doesn't take that long to switch back. bob

  Hey, I'm struggling to find another good science fiction series.  My preference is no galactic wars and I prefer the ones that work on the science (Hard science).  But I am a sucker for a good space opera.  I'll put this on my blog , send me your recommendations and if I really like one, maybe it'll appear below.

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 As you can tell, I'm not a great blogger.  I'm doing this one as a way to procrastinate working on my latest book. When I started my Delphi in Space series I had a clear goal of where I wanted the series to go.  Not the end, but a major milestone.  That goal has driven my writing for the first ten books.  Number ten has just gone through its second draft, so don't get too excited,  It takes three to six months to complete a book. Anyway.  I sat down to write a rough draft of book eleven when I realized that I had arrived at that major milestone and really hadn't thought about where I would take the series after that.   OOPS! Well, I managed to get a good draft for that book, but it was tough and I'm very nervous about book twelve, the one I'm avoiding now.  I have a basic outline and some chapters sketched out, but to make it an interesting book, I'm going to have to stretch my writing skill a bit.  I hope i don't break my fingers:)

As you can tell, I'm a terrible blogger.  Keep forgetting to post stuff that's on my mind until it's too stale to bother with. I've finished the first draft of book ten.  Now I need to let it sit for a while before I go back and try and finish it. I'm playing around with a book four in my Stone Series.  Wonder if my mind is agile enough to deal with both series at the same time.

One of you recently pointed out that I am not following the usual publishing guidelines for formatting.  I'm using the guideline for Non-Fiction instead of the typical fiction template.  I'm doing it because I like the extra white space, I think it makes it easier to keep track of where you are, who's talking, etc.  But of course, I'm writing for you guys, so maybe you don't like it.  I have to admit that I almost exclusively read my books in word since that's what I use to write them and what my editors prefer for correcting all of my mistakes.

I inadvertently clicked enable DRM for my latest release Delphi Exploration.  Amazon cannot undo the mistake unless I republish it.  But I I do that I lose all the sale rankings.  And we're closing in on #1 in science fiction.  DAMN DAMN DAMN.  Won't make that mistake again. bob

As you can tell, I'm not much of a blogger.  I need a teenager to interview me each day and do the blogs😊 I'm in that awkward place between finishing the second draft of book 9 and trying to tune up the plot of book 10.  That means I go looking for anything to do.  Even editing, or formatting.  I just started formatting book 7 as an e-book.  It's due on Amazon in a few weeks for the July 21st release. I always delay that work to the last moment because I find issues in later books that require mods the book being readied for release.  I was dealing with some aliens in book nine and realized that I was having to defy the laws of physics based on something I just guessed at in book seven.  So I had to go back and rework all the timelines to make the physics rational. Then I found this cool macro that lets you pull out all the proper names in the book; it's not perfect but I didn't have to write it.  That lead to the discovery of lots of little mistakes.  Fortunately

Blame it on Covid-19 Some of you may have noticed that book six wasn't available through KU.  Oops, I missed checking that box when I did the prerelease.  It is now available in KU.   One of my fans, noticed it early this morning and let me know. Cabin fever, that why:) bob

Finally.  What a long process to publish one.  But it's here,  Starship Sakira, Audio Version.

I'm 1500 words into book 9.  It looks daunting,  70,000+ is the goal. Funny how before the stay at home order, I preferred to stay home and write, now I've got cabin fever. Book 6 becomes available for preorder in three days and available on the 21st. book 7 is in the final edit round, and book 8 got by the beta reader without major change.  I should be raring to go on book 9.  At least I have the plot:). Maybe I need to social distance myself from the news. Everyone, stay safe.

When reading and even when writing Science Fiction, we sometimes forget just how far apart things are. The fringe of our solar system is beyond Neptune, whose orbit is thirty AUs, thirty times farther from the sun than Earth.   Jupiter is only five times farther.     When writing book five, Delphi Alliance, I carefully calculated the distances and times.   In Delphi Federation, I used those numbers, but I glossed over the extra distance from forty-fifty AUs to sixty.   And in book seven, I used the numbers from Delphi Alliance.   Oops.   My wife mentioned to me that the travel times seemed short.     After assuring her that I had run the numbers multiple times, I thought, hey, why not.   I ran them again, and Oh shit, I was off by weeks.   I panicked.   Necessity being the mother of invention, I spent the day and night trying to come up with a way out of my problem without having to rewrite books seven and eight.   Then when I was working on the timeline, I set up the ca

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