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For the next week Earth Interstellar will be available for purchase on the Kindle for $0.99. Get your copy now as it will be some time before it goes on sale again!
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EI is having a good start and my first reviews are in on Amazon.com (note: I do NOT pay for reviews - I'm too cheap to want to pay for them). I am especially appreciative of a review from Steven L. Fritz. In it he says, "This book got off to a good start with the Prologue, not always a good approach but it works well here. The stakes of the story are laid out here, not fully understandable until the end. The author has used his Cost (sic) Guard experience to create a very believable world of interstellar ship combat. Few writers bring the verisimilitude he brings to shipboard life, but it always serves the story.
Humanity is a minor civilization in an interstellar war. Their value to the overall galactic civilization is minimal except as proxy warriors. The weaponry described is innovative and believable and the battles between humans and another proxy species are well described. The characters are an ensemble but a few main characters come to life in interesting ways. Overall, a fascinating read." That's a great review as he has hit the nail on the head of what I was trying to accomplish in Earth Interstellar. Thank you Steven! Earth Interstellar is officially published for Kindle and print on Amazon! It just feels so good! Today I published my second book (that went on sale last night around 10PM, but you know, today is still the publish date because that's what Amazon said it would be). If feels amazing to finally have it out there after nearly a month of "available for pre-order."
46 Kindle and 2 print book sales in 8 hours takes pressure off, But my high anxiety continues as I wait impatiently for that first review to be posted. I hope you buy it. I hope you enjoy it. And, I hope you write a great review on Amazon and/or Goodreads so others know to check it out! All motion is relative. You have heard it, so have I. So, if all motion is relative there cannot be an actual slowing of time for an object as it approaches the speed of light, because there is no actual speed of light. There is only a relative speed of light - That is light's speed between an observer and an observed object is not the same as the speed of light in relation to the Universe.
Hell, the name of the Theory of Relativity means it is about the observation of time relative to another object. Time stops for the object from the observer's point of view only. Which means bupkis EXCEPT relative motion has an affect on the perceived flow of time for the observer due to the relative motion changing the perceived energy state of the emitted light (or energy). In relativity we "see" a change in the energy state of photons due to phase shift (expansion or compression of the flow that decreases or increases the energy state of the photon to the observer). The change in energy state for the observer is caused by the compression (or expansion) of the spacing of photons (for lack of a better descriptor) as we perceive them. What is not accounted for in the interpretation relativity is a photon stream with an energy level of visible light will be shifted into lower energy states as an object moves away and decreases the rate (increases the spacing of the photons in the stream) - which is what phase shift is. But, take it further - Relativity says that the spacing will continue to increase as you accelerate away and when you approach the speed of light the spacing becomes so great the perception of time flow is slowed until it stops. - That is the photon is moving at the same relative speed as the OBSERVER and has nothing to do with time flow for the observed object. As an aside, if the object reverses course and returns to its original starting position relative to the observer, the amount of observed time slowing will necessarily equal the observed time accelerating as the object returns (no matter what relative velocity it returns at) so that time when the observed object gets to its original starting position, the observer and the observed will once again be equal in perceived time. I may be wrong, but damn if this does not make a lot more sense than the wonky explanations I see trying to say time stops as you approach the speed of light for an object when all motion is relative. If you add up all the motion for a person standing on the Earth just for the rotation of the earth + the rate of movement of the Earth around the Sun + the rate of movement of the Sun around the center of the galaxy + the movement of the galaxy within its cluster of galaxies, you have potential velocity of 600,000+ miles per hour. What is that relative to? Do we have to adjust for that motion when determining the speed of light if we send two observed objects in different directions? No - because the objects ignore the other motions because "All Motion is Relative." S So, until someone finds the absolute motion of the universe to measure against, there can be no stopping of time for an object as it approaches the relative speed of light from a separate point of observation. There can only be the appearance of the stopping of time to the observer.
Edits are complete on Earth Interstellar: Proxy War and I have sent off pdf copies to my beta readers. I cannot be happier about my start to 2018 with my second novel so close to publication.
Feedback so far has been outstanding with a few suggested tweaks and encouragement they are really enjoying the book. I hope to have final comments within the next week and have it off for final formatting with my illustrator at Cover Mint (www.CoverMint.design) by next week. Look for Earth Interstellar in February 2018 on Amazon.com for Kindle and most anywhere for print (you may need to order it until retailers catch on). The only reason for a delay will be if Ingram Spark's publication schedule of their catalog for booksellers pushes it back a few weeks (fingers crossed). It has been a good year for me. I published my first book, Nova Academy, back in April and my second book, Earth Interstellar: Proxy War, is in final editing and cover creation.
If you liked Nova Academy, you will be glad to know Nova Academy: Bases & Lairs (Book 2) is well underway. I've completed 48,000 words out of what will likely be a 100,000+ word novel. You can find Chapter 1 of Book 2 on my website to get a peek at what is coming. 2018 Looks to be a good year as Earth Interstellar will be published by February and Book 2 of Nova Academy I am hoping to finish by mid-year. That will free me up to go back to writing Galaxy.Net (a rough draft Chapter 1 of it is also posted on my website). If I show a little discipline I expect to put out 3 books in 2018. I recently came up with two new concepts for novels that I'm excited about. I'm going to wait on giving details for them until I get going on the writing, so look for future blog posts for details. Thank you to everyone who has purchased Nova Academy. I know the early version had a fairly large number of grammatical errors. I've fixed those problems, however, and you will not see them in any future novels I publish. I had a pretty steep learning curve becoming a writer and learning to keep my excitement in check long enough to get through a proper editing of my books was one of those lessons. |
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