Science Fiction book, "Gods?"

I'm still working on making some minor corrections to the science fiction book, "Gods?". I should be submitting it to a publisher this weekend. I've also started back to work on the third book in the Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat series. I'm more comfortable calling it a collection than a series as one story doesn't necessarily follow directly behind the other. Still a lot of work to do on it as it will contain around twenty drawings.

Science Fiction book, "Gods?"

I've rewritten the beginning of the book and had to rewrite the detailed outline. Making changes seem to entail a lot of work at times. Oh, well that's the way it is. Anybody else doing any writing? Does anybody want to read sections of my book? I could paste a reasonable amount of it on my web page.

Update on Writing

It seems like forever since I've last visited this page. It has been awhile. I've been revising the third book in, "The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." I've also been working on getting reviews of the first book, "Astronaut Training." Anybody want to do a review? I expect to have some additional reviews start showing up in the very near future. Anybody that has read my book hopefully will do a review.

As long as I'm here I might as well insert one of my Science Snippets.

Why does a refrigerator get cold?

When a liquid is forced through a small hole (orifice) into an area of reduced pressure the liquid expands and usually turns into a gas or at least into a cloud of droplets. It takes work for this to happen. Work is a form of energy which is taken out of the closed system. The result is that the gas is at a significantly lower temperature than the initial liquid. The resulting cold gas is circulated through the refrigerator coils and cools the refrigerator. Excess heat is transferred to the air around the refrigerator by external coils. The transfer of heat to the air allows the circulating gas turns back into a liquid to continue to get colder and subsequently cooling the refrigerator.

Science Snippet, Science fact and writing

I'm going to try to continue with my posting of short science snippets. If anybody gets tired of them or wants something explained please let me know. I'm also working on my writing. I'm trying to convince myself to teach for a short while. I haven't tried it before and I've had many people tell me it's something I should do. I can't know until I try it. We'll see what happens.

What is meant by low pressure and high pressure when it is talked about during a weather report?

Our atmosphere goes through various cycles of low and high pressure. When a weather reporter talks about high and low pressures they are usually in relation to a pressure front coming through the area. A high pressure front usually brings good and warming weather while a low pressure front usually brings cooler and often stormy weather. As the earth turns and weather patterns change winds change and bring a change in local atmospheric pressure. These are often associated with what is termed the jet stream. The jet stream is a band of high atmospheric winds that circumnavigate the earth and to a great extent determine local weather patterns.

Until later

Another Step in Publishing

I expect to receive the first shipment of my second book, "A Visit to the Farm" either tomorrow or the next day. I'll be giving a few of them away and using the others for publicity purposes. I'm about half way through rewriting the book, "The Land of G'lop," my book about a family of witches. I, like a lot of authors, am having trouble getting enough time to work on what I want to work on. I seem to write in short segments--almost on the go. I make it a point to take some of my writing with me wherever I go. This allows me to use my time as wisely as I can. I'm attempting to get a publicist interested in my work so I won't have to spend so much time doing it myself. We'll see what happens.

Finishing a Book

It's often difficult for authors to let go of a book and send it off to the publisher or printer. "I know that if I work on it for just a little longer I can make it better." We all have to adopt the same philosophy that poets have developed. You work on the manuscript (poem) until you're tired or sick of looking at it. At this point you send it off. It's complete. No book, no matter how perfect it is judged to be by others, is totally complete or perfect. An author, reading their own work many years after the work has been published, will often be heard to mutter something like, "I can't believe I got this published, it's terrible." Don't despair, just work, write, get tired of it, and send it off. It's good enough. There are those few of us who can't live with, "It's good enough." These writers will not publish very much. Write often, be prolific and put your work out to be read and looked at by others. So what if some of them don't like it or you have a dangling sentence once in awhile. Make it your style and work every day if it is possible as your work will get better. My set of children's books that I'm working on are an example. Writing a book and doing the illustrations takes me about four months. It takes another couple of months to edit it and do the corrections. I've published, "Astronaut Training," late last year and expect to receive the proof for, "A Visit to the Farm," today or tomorrow. I'm working on, "Moving." These are all in the book collection, "The Adventures of Curtis, Connie, and Cosmic Cat." The books are written for fourth and fifth grade readers. Are they any good? I''ve been told that they are and that I have a good sense of humor and style. Only time and my readers will tell.

Cosmic Cat and Astronaut Training

I attended a couple of short courses; one yesterday and one today. I'm obviously not networking enough and not using social networking to my best advantage. I also need to connect with more people that are blogging. I'm going to attempt to do it--it just takes time. One of the short courses was on social networking such as Facebook. I actually used Facebook once. I though that it was too much of an invasion of my privacy. I'm going to try it again and see what happens. I need to send out some press releases for the new book, "A Visit to the Farm." I sent out one yesterday but I need to get as many out as I can. I handed out a number of business cards at the meetings maybe one of the participants will check out my blog.