Book Three coming soon

Okay, here's the deal. The Belt Loop (Book Three) is well enough along that I can speculate on a release date: Sometime in the first week of December. Call Miss Cleo and confirm my psychic prediction. Since I can control the horizontal, the vertical, the focus, the sound of this story, the release date just serves to push me to write more each day instead of sitting here reading. I like reading almost as much as writing and sometimes that hurts my production.

History Repeats Itself © 1991 R. Jones
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Just as in the drawing above, there is a lot of strange stuff going on in the universe and this picture is my feeble attempt to show it. Completed during Easter Week in 1990 and subsequently published the next year, this is one of my favorite images. I was sitting on top of Conifer Mountain in Colorado when I drew this and, at a height of 10,000 feet was probably suffering from oxygen deprivation of some sort.

A lot of my writing is derived from snippets of story ideas I have dreamed up over the years; stories about the future, about space, about time. Science fiction is a wonderful place to lose oneself in any and all three of the aforementioned dimensions. In Book Three I make mention of Colonial Navy ships lost to the void, ships that approached folded space at speeds pushing the limits of causal uncertainty, destined to reappear where- and when-ever, but certainly not in the place they set out to travel to. Who knows, maybe they wound up in this drawing.

New Month

Greetings to all. Well, October is upon me and I have two things staring me in the face. The first: my birthday is this month and I'm not so much enthralled by the two very crooked numbers looking at me. Oh well, it could be worse. There is only one remedy to stop the aging process and I'm not quite ready for that cryogenic tank yet, too much dang work to do. Secondly, I have to put The Belt Loop (Book Two) to bed. The book finished at almost 97,000 words and all of the editing has been done. I only have to go back and check a few continuity facts from Book One to make sure that my facts in Book Two agree with those previouly published.

Finishing a novel is a major undertaking for me. It starts with an idea, is nurtured through its growing pains, it reaches a pleasant old age and then it gets published. Not many other endeavors have given me the same feeling of accomplishment.

The Great Ashtray Nebula © 1991 R. Jones
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It's hard for me to believe that this drawing of mine is now 20 years old. Boy, time really flies when you're having fun.

Look for The Belt Loop (Book Two): Revenge of the Varson to be available on October 5, 2011. Continuing with the saga starring Captain Haad, Commander Yorn and the rest of the crew of the Corpus Christi, find out what happens to them as they limp back into port and run smack into a Varson uprising.

When Book Two goes live I will post the appropriate link here.

Robert.

Update: The Belt Loop (Book Two)

I've been very busy the last two weeks getting the second installment of The Belt Loop ready for publishing. It should be right around 100,000 words and continues the saga from the first book.

Lot's of interesting things in this story, as much of it is told from the other side: the alien perspective. Needless to say, the Varson Empire is not a happy place to be. Humiliated in their short war with the humans some ten years back, the Varson plot and plan their retribution against the Second Fleet of Elber Prime and the action is non-stop and riveting.

And, as is typical of stories from the twisted left-side of my brain, there are a lot of plot twists and the tale eventually comes to a rousing finish with a lot of sustained battles taking place between the warring fleets.

I am hoping the book will be ready sometime during the first week in October, 2011, depending how much time is devoted to edits and re-writes.

Nest post: Excerpt from The Belt Loop (Book Two): The Varson Uprising.

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The Omega Point © 2000 R. Jones

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In the Meantime. . .

Wow, very exciting two weeks. My new novel went live, I participated in a blog tour and got two 5-star reviews for my second novel, The Hand Is Quicker.

What am I doing now? Well, writing, as if you couldn't guess. What am I writing? I have two books in the works: The third Danny DeVille novel and Book Two of my space opera series. Right now I'm encouraged to continue the Belt Loop series and get another deep-space adventure published before the end of November. The initial response to Book One in this series has been positive and I am anxiously waiting for my first review. But the work goes on, and I will still try to keep my fans interested enough to join me in another far-fetched tale centered around what I know least about: The Universe.

One Universe: Some Assembly Required. © 2007 R. Jones
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