Welcome to my worlds
I write science fiction. There are worlds and space ships, technology and gadgets, but my stories are very much about the people that bring those worlds to life.
I love stories that immerse me in other worlds as if I lived there. I love complex, larger-than-life characters who are credibly driven by their own inner logic – heroes and heroines in their own stories. Even the bad guys. And I love the everyday influence of far-out technology. Not gizmos to be set on a pedestal and geeked over, but tools to be used, part of the furniture, taken for granted like computers and cell phones today.
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I post updates here on an occasional basis – writing progress, new releases, promotional deals, and the odd article on the writing and worldbuilding process. No more than a handful of times a year. If you want to stay in touch, please enter your email address here.
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Best-laid plans and all that … By now I was supposed to be in the final stages of editing. In reality all that has been on pause since the end of January. I mentioned last time that editing, for me, is the hardest part of the writing process, and that means summoning up a lot…
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Since completing the first draft of The Videshi Dilemma back in April, I’ve been pushing chapters through the queue at Critique Circle. Today I submitted the final chapter which will be critiqued by Christmas, completing this phase of the writing process. Now begins the part that I find the hardest: revising and polishing based on…
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About this time last year I had to set up a new website. I’d used Webs since 2014, then they got taken over by Vistaprint. After three years of occasional messages that web sites would be migrated (coming soon) they finally decided that helping website owners with any kind of migration tools was too much…
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Major excitement at reaching a big milestone late April. The first draft of The Videshi Dilemma is complete, at 106k words. Now the fun part’s done, it’s on with the real work of editing, revising, getting feedback, revising some more … I expect this to last into early 2025 before I can start thinking about…
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Since settling into proper “first draft” mode back in October, progress on The Videshi Dilemma remains on track at the moment. However I’m reminded again of something I’ve noticed from previous novels: I’m a slow writer. This is not a reflection of raw writing speed. When I’m on a roll I can comfortably knock out…
Ian S. Bott, Writer and artist 