I've completed a book called "Crafter's Passion" which is going up on the Kindle Scout system in a few days. This time I'm trying a human main character -- not an uploader, not a furry, who... okay, he gets a few raccoon parts late in the story, but only on his game avatar. (I can quit furry whenever I want to, man.) Anyway, sticking to a basically regular guy and hoping that that makes him more relateable than some of my other main characters.

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While trying to finish a novel (>95% of the way through draft 2) I've been fooling around with game design in Unity.

http://kschnee.xepher.net/code/unity/Ethos/ , more commentary at https://kschnee.deviantart.com/art/Unity-Game-Experiment-Ethos-720259792

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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609070/inside-the-moonshot-effort-to-finally-figure-out-the-brain/

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Wow, it's been a long time. Not much to say on the pony front, which is why I haven't been checking in here -- no Optimalverse stories by me lately or even much of Tales. I've got a book called "Perspective Flip" up on Amazon, a short story collection about transformation, and there's a mythical creature transformation collection coming up soon.

I've got too many projects I want to work on!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071V9B4JX/
"Thousand Tales: Learning To Fly" is now available for pre-order! The Kindle edition arrives on May 5. The print edition can't be pre-ordered but will release on around the same date.

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Book's ready to publish. Unfortunately, the artist who delivered character line-art and encouraging background sketches has fallen off the face of Equestria for the last three weeks, so the book is indefinitely delayed for lack of cover art. I've started asking around about alternatives and so far I've got a "no, thanks" and a "I could do this for $100-150 (vs. the original $50) but could go lower since the work's largely done". I'm antsy. Hopefully this'll all get resolved real soon now

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105.4K words, and the second draft of "Learning To Fly" is complete! The next steps are some mix of taking a break from it for a few days, and fixing up the proposed new opening (which will make this even longer), and doing a spellcheck (done!). After those, I need to do a proper edit because this is 2/3 new material and bits of it are probably stupid. Would anyone like to beta-read?

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I'm heavily rewriting and expanding "Learning To Fly", the story about a pegasus uploader. The original was around 35K words and this one's over 52K with several K of old material yet to re-add! Don't know if it'll be full novel length though.

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https://lexington-games.itch.io/tempest-tale

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NCAER2M/

Now available: my new short story collection, set in the AI/uploading-focused world of "Thousand Tales". It's got dimension-hopping griffins, a white mage, a giant-riding pixie photographer, and at least one felon.