Weeeeee'reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

Anypony miss me? Probably not but fuck it all I'm back and on the attack! Mine burn out LITERALLY lasted till late June, add in a mix of being insanely busy and trying to redevelop this "social life" thing I've heard so much about would have kept my writing on the ropes any way. But I'm back and with a long awaited Dead Seas update to boot. I can't promise this is going to stay as regular as we all want, but by the goddess Dead Seas WILL be finished at the very least.

In other interesting news I've been approached by a pony about a Vidya Game (combat flight sim of course) that's based on Stormrider's universe. I'm pretty enthusiastic about the idea, maybe he'll even let me do some writing for it. ;)

Other Universe news there's a spin off coming from another writer who's focusing on the bomber side of the air combat family. Sounds pretty promising and should be a good read.

and finally DARPA and the US Military are apparently fans of mine: IRL Storm cannons

So I completely forgot to update this page and I feel blood horrible about that. I haven't been able to write at all for just over a month and a half. I've knocked out some fluff related stuff for other franchises but I just can't wrap my brain around ponies. My brain's a complete slag job and I'm trying to focus on non-writing creative endeavors for the time being to let my skull heal. I was literally working on three stories at once in March and wrote a solid 20,000 word novella for the Mass Effect 3 ending stuff I did. In a month. I also got more of SR:DS done in that time then I did of SR:LO in three months! So getting slagged shouldn't be too surprising. I will be trying to crank some more out however especially with the school year ending so I can get my proofreaders back!

So fillies and colts here's the deal, I was sitting around and bullshitting with some bronies and came up with an awesome idea to expand the Stormriders into a seriously hardcore trilogy. Taking the epic up to 12 and generally breaking out some serious win. It required some serious rewrites to the end of Dead Seas but I can do it and I'm planning to do it, but I need your help. Your support is what keeps me going so let's publicize the hell out of this project! If Dead Seas ends with 50+ trackers (we're already half way there) I'll for sure be doing the final part of the trilogy which is tenatively titled "Ascension". That is the ONLY hint you people get about the nature of the next story line. Trust me it'll make ALOT more sense at the end of Dead Seas.

On to important IRL stuff:

Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow, the 23rd of February is a day that will be remembered for a long time. In the hell of war that was the island of Iwo Jima, six men on Mount Suribachi, five Marines and a Navy corpsman stepped into immortality while raising the second flag the war torn island. Their photograph happened to taken by Joe Rosenthal.

Of the six men who are now icons of the United States and legends of the Marine Corps three of them died in what was some of the fiercest fighting in the Second World War. Their names were Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, PFC Frank Sousely, PFC Ira Hayes, PFC Rene Gagnon and PM2 John Bradley. These men are regarded as heroes by many even though they would dispute it till the day they died. So in honor of that don't use today to reflect on them, on the act of raising the colors over Iwo Jima, take time instead to think about the many thousands of Marines, sailors and soldiers who fought and died on goddess forsaken spits of rock across the pacific, the men who never came home and traded their lives in the resistance of tyranny. Those are the real heroes, even to today.

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue"

                              -Admiral Chester Nimitz, referring to the Marines and sailors who took Iwo Jima

Semper Fidelis,

Pony Marine

To learn more about the flag raisers and the battle of Iwo Jima I recommend the excellent novel Flags of our Fathers by James Bradley (son of John Bradley as it happens)

Dang it's been awhile since I wrote one of these eh?

Well the big news for the week is that after months and months of slaving away at my baby, Luna's Own has finally been completed, with the epilogue/chapter 12 coming out sometime this week followed by the credits and a fan art page. So you'll see one or two more updates on Luna's Own. If you enjoyed and tracked Luna's Own I'd like to heartily encourage you all to track it's sequel Stormriders: Dead Seas. I've noticed at least a few ponies here and there have made the switch and I hope the rest of you come to. It's the people who like reading it that make all of this work worth doing so knowing that you're along for the ride all the way only makes that better for me.

Stormriders: Dead Seas

If you're just joining us for Dead Seas, and one or two of the folks tracking seem to be, I invite you to check out Luna's Own, you can jump in to Dead Seas with out having read Luna's Own but in my personal opinion Luna's Own kicks ass and it is a great read.

Also debuting recently is Equestrian Mythology and Lore, which is more a short story grouping with Dr. Whooves and Ditzy Doo (I'm still not calling her Derpy lol) as a framing device. Thanks to those of you who are tracking that already! I promise I haven't forgotten you guys. I'm just going to get Dead Seas started up and then the goal will be to write alternating chapters, that said it all depends on my free time and inspiration!

Equestrian Mythology and Lore

Thank you all again and I'll see you on the light line!

Semper Fi,

PonyMarine

This is Edward R. Murrow with CBS news in.. *shot*

Hey everypony, especially you Stormriders readers out there. I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a happy holidays and to let you all know Stormriders is no where near dead! Chapter 9 is awaiting editing and chapter 10 will be in the same boat probably before the new year depending on how much time we have left. If they do get done in that time frame I'll probably hit you all with a double update as a way of apology! After that it's just TWO chapters left for us all before Stormriders Luna's Own completes it's planned story arc. BUT for those of you who are fans of everyone's favorite dynamic trio, alcoholic Captain and infuriated Major I'm already planning out the arc and starting to write a sequel the prologue and at least one chapter of which will be published concurrently with the final chapter of Luna's Own.

The sequel is tenatively titled Stormriders: Dead Seas and will feature all of the surviving major characters from Luna's Own, possibly a recurring bit player or two AND by popular demand (a few PMs.... by which I mean two) more screen time for everyone's favorite Princess of the Night! I won't reveal any plot details or even a teaser... right now... but I if you guys press me... well... yeah I'm easy to pressure.

Merry christmas and happy new years everypony.

Semper Fidelis,

PonyMarine

The nicest compliment my writing will ever be paid is the comparison I received via private message here on FiMFic saying my writing style reminded the user of Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allison of X-wing Rogue Squadron fame. That's one of my favorite series and I'm a huge fan of all of Mr. Stackpole's works. Being mentioned in the same sentence as some of my favorite authors with out me even managing to sneak any references in yet is quite the honor.

Fic works:

Stormriders:

Some great progress on Stormriders, chapter 4 is ready to release on time and on target, and chapter 5 just needs a few finishing touches before my elite editing/revision team takes to it with their shining machetes of the English language. Chapter 6 also has a portion written and is gonna hopefully be nice and fleshed out by the end of the weekend. Also as of chapter four going live I'll have hit just over 10k words and with the positive responses I've been getting from here I'm going to go ahead and submit Stormriders to Equestria Daily for the first time and see if the brony community at large is ready for pony top gun.

New Fic Project:

I'm currently working on a new project that will run if/when/and on top of Stormriders called Equestrian Day Dreams, all of these are taken from my own dreams and random thoughts about the world of Equestria and expanded in to brief and hopefully amusing little one shots for everyone to have a nice laugh or giggle at. The first of those is about half way written, and will hopefully publish some time next week. Sneak preview: "Cutie mark crusaders tattoo artists! Yay!"