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Starship Sakira is on special for .99. Tell your friends

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 check out the deals here .    Pretty cool.  bob
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 Delphi Station is getting some free press. https://ebookdaily.com/bargain-kindle-books/2021-08-20/B081Y3FT8H Check it out and refer your friends.

Delphi Embassy get free promotion

 Hey, Delphi Embassy is being promoted on  https://ebookdaily.com/bargain-kindle-books/2021-07-21/B097QC5W8M You should have already read it:) but check out their other promotions. Bob

Getting some free press again

 Hey, The ebook daily is featuring Delphi Exploration today.  You might want to check out what other books they're featuring since I ASSUME all of you have read Delphi Exploration. https://ebookdaily.com/bargain-kindle-books/2021-06-28/B097SSYBY8 bob
 Book 11 is in final editing.  It will be released in July with preorders in late June. I've only had to do a few rewrites after the beta read, they tell me I actually have to write the stuff out if people are to understand it, on mind melds across the kendle. bob

Delphi Exploration (Delphi in Space Book 7) is now on sale at Audible

  Delphi Exploration (Delphi in Space Book 7)  is now on sale at Audible They were fast this time.  I hope they keep it up. bob

ARRRRRR Oops

 I cannot believe we let a mistake get through all the edited and reviews for Delphi League.!!!!! As many of you know I am usually working on the next book and writing the plotline for the one after that as we finish up the one we're getting ready to release.  When I write, I sometimes just put in a short description of what I want to write about as a move on, then I come back and finish those up when I have the plot nailed. Well, that can lead to big oops.  I was working on book twelve while we were finishing book ten.  And in that book, Catie is dealing with Natatalia's baby who she refers to as her Nephew, she bing the honorary aunt.  Then I went back and filled in the gaps I left in book ten.  So.........  I then used aunt and niece when referring to her baby sister.  None of us noticed it, we must have all been blinded by my fabulous prose.   Anyway, I fixed it and an update should be available.  Doesn't really change the story...

Where does the time go

 I'm just finishing up the formatting for the Next book, Delphi League.  I will prerelease it next week, and it'll be available le on April 6th  You can tell I'm not good with social media or anything that requires me to track time or I would have mentioned Delph League in my newsletter.  Nuts. I just finished the draft for another book, now I have to let it sit for a few weeks so when I read it, I actually read it rather than remember what I wanted to write.  Sometimes there's a difference.  This one I have to have my wife read a few sections to see if I was too lazy with the description of the event.  It's a big deal to the character but not so much to the story, so I might have short-changed it. Oh, well, I have to come up with a plot for my next book in the Stone Series, but Catie keeps jumping in with plot ideas for Delphi. bob

Delphi Federation Audio is now available!

 Surprise, Surprise, the QA guys were quick.  Delphi Federation is now on Audio.
 I finally finished the first draft of the Fourth Stone Novel.  I still need to pick a title:) Now I need to let it sit for a week before I being the first polishing draft.  Then the Editors get to hack away at it:( I hope it will be ready before March. Bob
 I'm sure Amazon and Audible have sent out notices, but the Delphi Alliance Audiobook is now available. Can't believe how long it takes them.  Delphi Federation is in production now.  Jessica should be finished by the end of the month, then it goes into the black hole of QA.,' bob

Delphi Challenge is coming

 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.

Hey, got another promo for the series from ebookdaily. Check out their other deals

Nice when someone helps to promote my series.  Check these out. ebookdaily

People are noticing the series

 Check out our new FREE (to me) PROMO 'Delphi Colony' is highlighted today ($3.99) on eBookDaily.com and in the Bargain newsletter. http://author.ebookdaily.com/d eals/1127122-delphi-colony

I reached my destination, now what???

 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:...

What to do??

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.

Formatting, a matter of choice, yours.

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.

OOPS DRM -- Damn Amazon

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

Wow, Book 10?

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 mist...