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Sorry for the few updates, I’ve been working hard on the series. Stennis was out on January 7th, but I’ve been putting winter weather to use and sitting behind the keyboard hammering out book 5. The Depths of War. It’s currently sitting at 51,048 words in first draft, which will mean it

Those of you who’ve read The Anvil of Dust and Stars, this is something that’s in the book. There are small fighting craft called grapplers, they move in space like atmospheric fighters on steroids. They can thrust in any direction simply by gripping the very fabric of space and, using a tracked

If a star goes nova, the kill zone around it will depend on the distance from the star. I’ve read several different estimates. 130 light-years. NASA estimates 25 light-years. Some estimate as many as 450 light-years. These ranges are for a supernova. From Earthsky.org:   Dr. Mark Reid, a senior astronomer at

Hey everyone!  Book 4 is released and available on Amazon. Stennis. I’m stunned by the number of people who bought it already, and by the number of people who downloaded the other 3 books in the series as well. It’s a great honor that each of you put faith in my writing to entertain

Happy New Year to all of you. Let’s hope 2017 is awesome, and doesn’t upset the apple cart any more than it already was by 2016. I was on the radio on January 1st and 2nd (the 2nd was a repeat). Interested in hearing it? This is the link. Damon Alan on

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all got what you want, spent time with family, and had good food. Here at Spacestation Alan, things are great. Orbital Defense Command is signing out to cook dinner.

Hey, it’s been a very busy December. Let me share. First, of course, is the shopping. Man, opening up Firefox and logging into Amazon… that’s killing me! 🙂  I do have three teenage daughters, and shopping for them has been a bit of a chore. Not the shopping itself, but the careful

I haven’t completed book 4 yet. LOL! But I have the cover for Books 4 and 5 pretty much done. When I can’t write, I like to turn to digital art, and covers kill two birds with one nuclear missile. So I not only reveal the cover of Book 5 here, but

Here’s a nice video about the size of black holes. One of the most interesting aspects of our universe, they are the destroyer of everything they touch, but the creator of life itself in the sense that galaxies cannot form without them. No galaxies, no star formation. No star formation, no planets.

An update on book 4 of the Dark Seas series. I have 25 chapters written in first draft, and the story is rolling along quite well. I have to be honest, I’m not always sure what directions things are going to go. Even if I do have an idea, sometimes the characters