Eternity's Irys

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News and updates for “Eternity’s Irys” as well as some personal opinion pieces.

  • Progress Report!

    “Final” Stats:48 Chapters99,591 Words426 Pages (with two extra reserved for special features) As of today, my first physical pass of Eternity’s Irys is now complete. I intend to do one more with a softcover copy before calling it 100% complete. I would say we are at the 80% mark. Things still in the works:-Mandala artist’s… Read more

  • Physical Edit: COMPLETE!

    Earlier today I finished reading the entire physical copy of my book and it went so much better than I expected. I really thought it still needed a lot of work, but besides some small things, minor formatting issues, and a retooling of the literal last chapter, I think it’s damn near finished. As you… Read more

  • Behold! Book!

    After five years of drafting this thing and over twenty years of writing in general, I ended 2023 with a copy of my book. Written in Google Docs with the aforementioned Royal Kludge keyboard, formatted in Atticus, “edited” with ProWritingAid, and print-formatted by my brother Paul, my unofficial “publisher”. He had four of these pre-production… Read more

  • Happy Birthday, Q’taxians!

    Happy 5th Anniversary to the completion of the first draft of “The Q’taxians”! How far we’ve come and what a crazy adventure it’s been! Rollercoaster of highs and lows, character growth, real life growth, tons of drafts and discarded novels, all to get us here: Eternity’s Irys. Not once did I want to give up,… Read more

  • It Is Done.

    As of yesterday, the first entry to the “Eternity’s Irys” series, “Two Minutes to Midnight”, is finally complete. I am finally happy with the outcome of five years of writing. Currently, my brother and I are putting together some proof copies. He’s doing most of the technical work I can’t handle as well as redesigning… Read more

  • I almost returned this thing

    Guess I’m glad I didn’t. This is the RK Royal Kludge RK61. Got it on Amazon for $50. I was using one of those cool type-writer keyboards for a while and for a while it worked okay, but typos and missing simple keys like “Enter” started getting out of hand. So I Googled “Best keyboards… Read more