News and Updates
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Let Them Eat Cake
The relationship between the writer of a series and its reader is a complicated one. I always knew this, even before I began writing or publishing Firmament. I always had very little respect for series creators who knew how the larger story needed to go, but chickened out due to public pressure and caved to the
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“I always liked watching as we approached Earth.”
Fun fact: Did you know that the capitalization rules for our planet depend on the context? If you’re referring to our world in a way that references it as a place distinct from other planets, it’s “Earth.” But if you’re just talking about it in a way that sees only it rather than anything else
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Dear Vienna
I was at the gym awhile back, listening to a playlist made up of every Owl City song ever, when something caught my ear. I was currently beginning my revisions of Firmament: Gestern and so when the song “Dear Vienna” came on, I paid careful attention and was fascinated to find just how well it fit August
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“It was the eyes that hurt him…”
Just in time for the launch of Firmament: Gestern, I have the book’s prologue up! What do I mean by prologue, you ask? Well, it’s a funny story… When publishing the Firmament series, I very much wanted to bookend each book with pieces of a larger, connected saga. I wrote prologues and epilogues for the first couple of