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Drafting
The Kuiper Dominion, the third book in the NASA Engineer series that started with The Martian Incident
9/45 chapters drafted
Editing
In Pentagon Review
The Saturn Anomaly, the dual-time sequel to my hit The Martian Incident
Crush Depth, the chilling deep sea standalone technothriller sequel to Lag Delay
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Inefficiency
In my last post, I talked about abandoned projects and wasted words. I have only manage to publish a fraction of what I’ve written since I started in 2012. But why is this the case? Why am I so inefficient? In this post I’ll talk through some reasons as to why I think this is…
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End of Feb 2025/Beginning of Mar 2025
Not a terrible month, but could have been better. The Saturn Anomaly Still at the Pentagon in its prepublication security review. I pinged them in the middle of the month and they told me that there’s still a DOD element that needs to approve it. Waiting and waiting…hopefully with a resolution soon! Crush Depth Also…
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Why the Pentagon Can’t Pass an Audit
Posted this to X/Twitter, will post the story here too. I’ve talked about this before, but after I got through grad school I PCSed to Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque and became the mission manager for the STP-2 launch. That launch was a task order on the OSP-3 contract, which had a few different vendors on…
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