Valentine's Day Tribute - How I turned my Military SF into a PR Space Opera

      When I started planning the current WIP, I didn't have any romance in mind at all. It was going to be straight up Military SF. I don't think I even had any major female characters. As the ideas percolated I changed the sex of one of my major characters to a female, and then hit on the idea for my MC as a vampire and the entire scope of the book changed completely as did the POV. I had in mind to do a first person story from the vampires POV.


      A lot of time passed in the real world while all these gyrations were going on and in the midst of it my wife started reading again. When I say she started reading again I mean she started reading voraciously. It all happened more or less simultaneously with me trying to develop my story arc. She started really getting into the paranormal romance books.

Help me with my Query Letter!

Query Letter for Bulletproof Soul

I am seeking representation for my completed science fiction space opera novel of 110,000 words, titled BULLETPROOF SOUL. It can be sold as a standalone novel, but begins a trilogy which traces the action through a series of intrepid events and political intrigue.

Making Progress

It's been a slow week at work and fairly stress free.  Lack of stress is a good thing for my muse, and I've been able to make good progess this week.  I did around 4,000 words this week, not bad, and the good part is my primaries are finally meeting each other at the 80k mark.  I have a novel length book now for the Sci Fi genre and have a ways to go yet to the end.  Editing will likely cut it back again, since I want it to be tight.


I'm targeting 1 March to be completely done and I work better with a deadline.  I'm enjoying some down time and filling it with shopping and writing and time with family.  It just doesn't get much better than that.


Merry Christmas everyone!