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Writing Update
I've been cranking out books the last several years and haven't really talked about them as much as I probably should have. Here is a list of everything I've published, along with the Amazon links. Almost all of them have an element of alternate history and a hint of mystery to them.
My Books by Publication Date-Newest First
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Kirkus Review: The Necklace of Time
I have been meaning to post this for a while. Kirkus reviewed my novel The Necklace of Time a few months ago. They say some good things about it. Complete Review follows:
TITLE INFORMATION
THE NECKLACE OF TIME
Dale Cozort
Self (256 pp.)
$14.95 paperback, $4.99 e-book
ISBN: 978-1-07-434380-4
July 24, 2019
BOOK REVIEW
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SHifting To a New Blog
As of mid-March, I'm shifting much of my blogging to a WordPress site. It's at:
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General Principles For Your Alternate Timeline
If you really look at what would happen in an alternate timeline after something significant changed, you realize that events are so inter-related and there are so many points of individual decision that within a decade or two what happens in that alternate timeline is pure guesswork, no matter how metriculously you think it through ( Read more... ) -
Alternate Prehistory: What If More Than One Human Species Had Survived?
A series of recent discoveries has made it clear that the current human species is only a fraction of human diversity as it existed in the last ice age. Very different kinds of people lived then, enough different from modern humans to make all of our racial differences look trivial.
First the discoveries, then some alternate history speculation:
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Writing: Measuring Writing Progress
It's hard to measure progress in writing. Quality improvements are what we should really be going for, of course, but it's almost impossible to measure quality improvement. We can measure quantity of writing, at least in rought drafts. Words per day is pretty simple to track and I find that setting a minimum goal is a good way to motivate myself. ( Read more... ) -
That Didn't Last Long- My New Year's Resolution on Blogging
A bit of harsh reality: Blogs that don't get updated regularly--at least once a week and hopefully every day--don't get a lot of traffic. Even if people like what you say, they don't keep coming back if you stop posting for weeks or months at a time. I understand that, and one of my New Year's resolutions was to blog every day this year. I got a ( Read more... ) -
Mini-Book Reviews
The Short Drop by Matthew Fitzsimons isn’t alternate history or even science fiction, but it’s pretty good. It’s a thriller about the daughter of a Senator who went missing ten years before the action takes place. Ten years later, the first clues about the daughter’s disappearance show up. That leads to a very well done mystery with lots of twists ( Read more... ) -
TV: Some Good Stuff
Not related to science fiction at all, but my wife and I have gotten addicted to Jane the Virgin. It’s an absolutely hilarious pseudo-Spanish soap opera, deliberately over-the-top. Jane is saving herself for marriage with her cop fiancée, but is accidentally artificially inseminated with sperm from a wealthy childhood crush, decides to have the ( Read more... ) -
Time Travel/Alternate History Reviews
Reading: I read two time travel books recently, with very different approaches. Split Second, by Douglas Richards takes an interesting approach to time travel. In this book, the time traveler can only go back a fraction of a second. Note: What follows contains some spoilers about the setup of the time travel in Richard's world.When the person or ( Read more... )