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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The Videshi Dilemma is now available in paperback and e-book formats on all the major online sites (Amazon, Apple, B&N, Kobo etc.) A reluctant heir to a corporate empire is blackmailed into joining an interstellar expedition to save an alien race from extinction. Also, Wrath of Empire is currently on sale for $0.99 (down from…
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After a few last intensive rounds of editing, The Videshi Dilemma is with the book designer to finalize the layout and prepare PDFs to upload. The last two months included painting the cover art. I like to take progress photos along the way, so you can see the image as it evolves. I work in…
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Since my last update in June, things have picked up. Since then, I finally managed to make progress on the editing front. Slow and halting, but progress. I’m now into the final stages of editing The Videshi Dilemma, and have to start thinking seriously about cover art. With a fair wind, I expect to arrange…
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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…
Ian S. Bott, Writer and artist 