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Tag Archives: psi-tech trilogy
Happy Endings or Not?
Do stories really have happy endings? They do if we choose to stop the tale at the point where the prince slips a golden ring on Cinderella’s finger, or where Beauty kisses the beast, or the princess kisses the frog … Continue reading
Viewpoint
I’m in a Facebook writers’ group for writers of all levels. Someone asked what the POV (point of view) limit was on a traditionally published debut novel. The answer, of course is: there isn’t one. Sometimes you find prescriptive pieces … Continue reading
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Tagged books, crossways, empire of dust, fantasy, jacey bedford, Nimbus, POV, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, reading, rowankind, silverwold, viewpoint, Winterwood, writing, writing advice
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Building a Universe – Law and Order in The Psi-Tech Novels
More about the universe in which the Psi-Tech books are set. The Monitors – Galactic PolicingFormed in 2391, the Monitors are an interstellar policing force largely concerned with providing law in the space-lanes and for those newly established colonies that … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, stephan martiniere, worldbuilding
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Building a Universe – Folding Space – The Psi-Tech Novels.
Early Space ExplorationHumans established several stations on the moon, and a joint scientific facility on Mars by 2050. At the same time commerical expeditions to mine the Kuiper Belt proved successful, and, following a twenty year scientific study, shipyards were … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Folding space, foldspace, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, psionics
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Building a Universe – The Psi-Techs
My Psi-Tech Universe has implant-enhanced humans who have telepathy to a greater or lesser extent, combined with other psi talents. My main characters, Cara and Ben are psi-techs. Cara is a top class telepath with a side order of empathy, … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, psionics, telepathy
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Building a Universe – Power Structures and Personal Stories.
When I started to write Empire of Dust I didn’t really know much about my setting. I didn’t build my universe first and then people is and dream up stories. The people came first, and along with them a predicament. … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, space opera, SpaceX, trilogies, trilogy, worldbuilding
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Style Sheets
Posted on February 7, 2017 by Jacey Bedford There’s a lot of information to keep in your head if you’re writing a book. There’s even more if you’re writing a trilogy or a series. I happily wrote seven books without … Continue reading
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Tagged copy edit, DAW, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, style sheet, writing, writing advice
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The Rule of Three
This post first appeared on David Tallerman’s blog. As humans we look for patterns. Three is the smallest number of elements that can form a pattern. Superstition suggests that three is the magic number, or that both bad things and … Continue reading
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Tagged Amber Crown, psi-tech trilogy, publishing, Rowankind trilogy, rule of three, writing
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Book Blogs
I’ve been posting writing-related blogs every other Tuesday, and I’ll continue to do that, but from now on I’m also going to do reading-related blogs on the intermediate Tuesdays. Yes, that’s right, this blog is going weekly. I blog everything … Continue reading
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Tagged book blog, book reviews, jacey bedford, psi-tech trilogy, Rowankind trilogy, shelfies
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The Geography of Words
Writing science fiction and fantasy involves worldbuilding. Sometimes we take a concept, strip it right down to basics and invent a planet where the sea is pink, the sky is upside down and the dominant life form has seven tentacles … Continue reading
How I Got Here From There
First published on Gillian Polack’s blog in March 2020 for Women’s History Month It took me a long time to get here, possibly too long. If I’d known then, what I know now, it might not have taken so long… … Continue reading
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Tagged book deals, DAW, jacey bedford, milford, Milford SF Writers, misc.writing, psi-tech trilogy, Rowankind trilogy, Sheila Gilbert, writing
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An interview first published in SF Signal
I like doing interviews, especially when the questions are both thoughtful and taxing. Carl Slaughter presented me with an intriguing set of questions way back in 2016. I thought I’d revisit them. CS: Your first series is cyberpunk space opera. … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Slaughter, crossways, empire of dust, interview, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, SF Signal, Silverwolf, Winterwood
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Quantifying Success
A few years ago, Chuck Wendig posted to his Terrible Minds blog saying: ‘It Only Gets Harder Once You’re Published’. (http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2015/08/19/it-only-gets-harder-once-youre-published/) How true. That article really resonated with me. I wonder if authors ever get over the self-doubt thing. When … Continue reading
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Tagged empire of dust, jacey bedford, psi-tech trilogy, Rowankind trilogy, shelfies
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Writers Injuring Characters
I went to visit my dentist for a particularly difficult tooth extraction today, so as I write this I’m sitting nursing a sore jaw as the anaesthetic is wearing off. I can’t deny that I felt a bit wobbly after … Continue reading
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Tagged head injuries, jacey bedford, Peaky Blinders, Promethius movie, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, PTSD, writing, writing injuries
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My Other Journal in a Galaxy Far far Away
In 2008 I started a blog on LiveJornal (and later moved everything over to Dreamwidth, but that’s another story). These days I mostly keep Dreamwidth for book and movie reviews, but in those early days my blogs were much more … Continue reading
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Tagged blogging, Dreamwidth, empire of dust, LiveJournal, old journals, other blog, psi-tech trilogy, titles, writing
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The Long Haul
Now, here’s the thing… when you write a trilogy you are in it for the long haul. To all those people who write a single book, I salute you. It’s not easy. It takes dedication and effort. Now imagine you … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, Silverwolf, trilogies, trilogy, Winterwood, writing
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Jacey’s Quick Book Links
With the publication of Rowankind just a few days away (27th November), I thought I’d post links to all my books. Obviously the (not-so-hidden) subtext is, go out and buy them, but seriously folks, those advance orders for a new … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, jacey bedford, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, Silverwolf, Winterwood
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Finish What You Start – Or Don’t
Unless you stop faffing about re-writing the beginning of your story/novel, you’ll never finish it. Believe me, I know this. I am an expert in faffing around. I’ve spent untold hours/days/weeks/months getting the start of my novels just right. Sometimes … Continue reading
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Tagged beginnings, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, rowankind, Rowankind trilogy, writing, writing advice
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The Gift That Keeps on Giving
My first book, Empire of Dust, launched on 4th November 2014 from DAW and, boy, was I excited. I’d waited a long time for that moment. When I got the first review , from Publishers’ Weekly, no less, I read … Continue reading
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Tagged crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech trilogy, reading, reviews, rowankind, sci-fi, Silverwolf, space opera, Winterwood, writing
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What’s the Psi-Tech trilogy about?
Nimbus, the final book in my Psi-Tech trilogy, is out now. Who-hoo, I have five books out and this is the first complete trilogy. Sometimes big ideas start with a bang and arrive fully formed, sometimes they start small and … Continue reading
It’s Official!
With the Psi-Tech Trilogy completed, and Nimbus now in the shops, I’ve signed a contract for the third Rowankind book, called simply: Rowankind, and due for publication in late 2018 from DAW in the USA. It follows on from Winterwood … Continue reading
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Tagged DAW, historical fantasy, history, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, publishing, Ross Tremayne, rowankind, writing
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Happy Book Day To Me!
My new book, NIMBUS, is out today. Let me say that again because it never gets old. My new book, NIMBUS, is out today! It’s my fifth published book, and the third in my Psi-Tech universe. It represents a milestone … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, Cara Carlinni, crossways, empire of dust, Nimbus, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, publishing, science fiction, space opera, writing
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Bladdered or Shitfaced? The gentle art of word choice and the bogglement of page-proofing.
No, I’m neither bladdered not shitfaced – that’s one of my characters. I’m sober as the proverbial judge, and doing page proofs. Five hundred and thirty four pages of closely printed text – almost one hundred and seventy thousand words. … Continue reading
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Tagged ben benjamin, books, Cara Carlinni, editing, jacey bedford, Nimbus, proofreading, psi-tech, psi-tech trilogy, sci-fi, science fiction, SF, space opera, writing
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