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Grogan lives with his spouse in Northern California.
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Blog postMy science fiction book (Shoulder Fairy) has been published for three months now, and I decided to get a book trailer made for it.
I went to Fiverr.com to browse the possibilities of getting a good video made for my book for a cheap price. One offer looked interesting: an “awesome” book trailer for $25. After I selected added features (90 seconds, voice-over) the total came to $140 (US dollars).
I was concerned about how good the video would be, assuming free science fict1 year ago Read more -
Blog postMy book ‘Shoulder Fairy’ is online now. I noticed it was available this morning on Amazon. I rushed to publishdrive.com to see how many I sold. One. Yes, a sale! (And yes, I was the customer).
This time around I used publishdrive.com to self-publish. I am using a free trial account there. I can have a trial account as long as I want. That means Publishdrive does not take a cut of the book sales revenue. It distributes to several ebook stores, and the stores take a cut of course, but n1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI had a goal to publish my new science fiction book ‘Shoulder Fairy’ in 2019. I am a little late. My cover designer Dario is still working on designing my cover. I am now waiting on the cover and one additional appendix story from Anthony. I hope to publish by the fifteenth of January 2020.
Originally I was going to use an illustration of an alien landscape viewing down from the sky from Felipe for my cover. See below. However, it was not wide enough to fit the front cover and the spi1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postMy latest science fiction novel “Shoulder Fairy” will be submitted to publishdrive.com to be published simultaneously at various online stores at the end of this month. That means no one can buy it till a few days later, in January. I am just waiting on the cover to be finished and some last few appendix items.
This last little bit I am just waiting for contributors to finalize their pieces. I can insert the twelve internal illustrations tomorrow I suppose. I am eager to finally have1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI hired various freelancers for science fiction short stories. These stories are mostly backstories for various characters in my novella. To make my ~38000-word novella into a full-sized book, I am making an appendix in the book with hired short stories and science reports relevant to my novella. I plan to put the name of the actual author above each short story.
Below, I have included one of those stories. For this story, I asked sharonbae from fiverr.com to read my novella, choose a1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI hired three different people from fiverr.com to create a book blurb for my new ‘Shoulder Fairy’ science fiction book I expect to self-publish next month. It will be my fourth book.
Creating a blurb for this book is a little tricky because the story is difficult to explain in just a few words. The worst case is “The book is about a salesman goes to another planet to sell electronic tablets.” While that is true, it’s missing the motive, the obstacles, and the dangers that the salesman1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI was excited (as always) to receive the results from my editor, and I want to share my editor’s general comments about my book. This editor is from Scribendi.com. Editors from Scribendi.com are always anonymous (editor number 1479 in this case) so I don’t know if it is a he or a she. Here are his/her general comments:
Hi, and thank you for the opportunity to edit your book. Before I go into detail about this edit (and how much I enjoyed reading your novel!), I’d like to apologize for1 year ago Read more -
Blog postI hired an editor to critique my science fiction manuscript. In his report, he suggested I have a map made since it was challenging to keep track of all the locations. I like maps, so that suggestion excited me.
At Fiverr.com I found quite a few fantasy map makers. I chose exoniensis. I wrote up a list of locations with a brief description for him, he created this image. The price was US$68 (with a modest tip) and I got this color version, a black and white version, and various other2 years ago Read more -
Blog postFor the science fiction I am currently writing, Felipe Lira has been providing the illustrations. He has created eleven illustrations so far, and I believe he has agreed to five more.
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Earth’s Ambassador to Planet Sonik
I had recruited Felipe from twine to come up with a picture for the front cover of the book. After that, I had expanded the story quite a bit. I hired him to create more illustrations for the book interior.
Book Cover Illustration
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Blog postIn my last post, I had started a contest at Freelancer.com for ideas for a specific chapter of the book I am writing. I got 13 entries, but only seven are visible at the link unless you log in to Freelancer.com.
I loved most of the ideas I got and it was a tough choice choosing the one official winner. I chose the entry from Faith I to be the main winner and to get my $100 prize. But then I decided to buy the ideas of three others as runner-up winners (at a lower price they2 years ago Read more
A remote world. An unorthodox mission. A strange companion.
After traveling in stasis for years across the interstellar void, Robert Vasquez lands on the planet Sonik orbiting the Procyon star system. His personal mission is to educate the natives of what some consider a backwater world. In this pursuit, he soon runs afoul of the local human ambassador Garth Knight, who wants to keep the natives ignorant—and easier to subjugate.
Robert recruits several natives to his cause, but some oppose him, including a large band of renegades bent on galactic conquest. They harbor secrets about Sonik beyond the knowledge of most other natives. Yet Robert has learned even deeper secrets buried in the planet’s ancient archives. In the process, he also acquires unusual companions among the native fairies and tarlocks.
How far will Robert bend the rules to succeed on his mission? Can education and technology triumph over bureaucracy and imperialism?
Illustrations inside.
Tomek mène une vie en apparence calme en tant qu'ingénieur spatial pour l'Empire Azten interstellaire des Mondes Fédérés.
Toutefois, personne ne sait que durant ses fréquents congés, il travaille bénévolement pour les forces de l'ordre de sa planète. Ainsi, il traque des criminels reconnus et les livre à la justice. Réputé pour se pencher sur des affaires dont personne ne veut volontairement s'occuper, Tomek utilise le nom de code "Négatif Zéro" pour se protéger lui, et ceux qu'il aime.
Tomek se lance sur l'enquête de sa vie lorsqu'il poursuit les responsables de deux crimes majeurs : l'un concerne la mort de milliers d'agriculteurs, victimes d'une supposée peste, et l'autre, un tueur en série qui utilise une drogue mystérieuse pour obliger ses victimes à lui céder la possession de leurs biens avant de mourir.
À mesure que Tomek lève le voile sur le mystère qui règne derrière ces agissements, il est convaincu que justice sera rendue.
Mais la sombre organisation Trident nourrit d'autres projets lorsqu'ils découvrent qui est vraiment Négatif Zéro. Alors qu'ils resserrent leur étau sur lui, en utilisant des gardes impériaux corrompus comme hommes de main, Tomek doit se battre pour sa survie.
La suite de Négatif Zéro démarre tambour battant puisque notre intrépide concepteur de vaisseaux spatiaux se retrouve durant quelques minutes sous les feux de deux croiseurs d’élite appartenant à la flotte impériale Azten. Après avoir défié directement l’Empire Azten des Mondes Fédérés, Tomek se dirige vers la surface d’une planète confinée, Baktu.
Coincé depuis presque un an sur cette planète où la technologie n’est guère évoluée, Tomek a trouvé un foyer. Il est même tombé sous le charme de Spri, une jeune baktie.
Mais les Baktis ont préservé un secret à l’égard de cet étranger. Un mystère qui pourrait l’aider à retrouver la créature qui a enlevé son ami Claymore. Cette même confidence explique pourquoi la planète a été mise en quarantaine par le gouvernement Azten depuis près de deux siècles.
Pendant que Tomek traque des monstres sur cette planète tranquille, une guerre civile a éclaté au sein de l’empire. Sans compter que l’organisation Trident n’a pas oublié leur ennemi juré.
En outre, l’armada de Golanta fonce vers Azten, détruisant toute forme de résistance sur son passage…
Baktu étant situé à la frontière de l’empire, comment les Baktis vont-ils gérer cette menace par leurs propres moyens ?
Tomek vive uma vida aparentemente quieta como engenheiro de espaçonaves para o Império interestelar Azten de Mundos Confederados.
Ninguém sabe, entretanto, que durante as frequentes "férias" de Tomek, ele é voluntário da polícia do seu planeta, rastreando criminosos condenados e entregando-os à justiça. Conhecido por assumir casos que ninguém mais assumiria, Tomek usa o codinome "Zero Negativo" a fim de proteger a ele e aqueles que ele ama.
Tomek assume a investigação da sua vida quando ele rastreia aqueles responsáveis por dois grandes crimes: um em que milhares de fazendeiros morrem de uma praga suspeita, e outro em que o assssino em massa usa uma droga misteriosa para forçar as vítimas a entregarem seus bens antes de morrerem.
Assim que Tomek desvenda o mistério por trás daqueles responsáveis, ele está confiante de que serão trazidos à justiça.
Mas o sinistro grupo Tridente tem outros planos em mente quando eles eventualmente descobrem quem Zero Negativo realmente é. Enquanto eles chegam perto de descobrir sua localização, usando guardas imperiais corruptos como capangas, Tomek deve lutar pela sua vida se quiser sobreviver.
The fight for justice never ends—and as four-armed navino lawyer Claymore is about to learn, no one can be trusted to do what’s right. So, he decides to take on the organized criminals infiltrating his beloved government, even if he must do it alone.
After the abduction of his niece, Shaylor, Claymore begins investigating a shady organization known only as Prong Three. Following the trail of corruption and kidnapping, he discovers that his target is just one small arm of a major operation called Trident—and that taking it on means risking everything, including his own life and freedom.
Behind it all is the one known as Master, whose grand plans lead to a full-on civil war between Trident and the official government. Both sides are working under pressure. If they can’t find a compromise soon, their chances of defeating the much more powerful alien force preparing to invade are slim.
Claymore must figure out how to stop Trident, but the criminals’ top leadership is already tracking him. Together with government agents—and any allies he can find—Claymore must disrupt their advanced technology while evading capture.
If they find him, it will be too late.
After being stranded on the low-tech planet for almost a year, the human Tomek has found a home—even falling in love with a young Bakti named Spri.
But the Bakti have been keeping a secret from the foreigner—a secret that could lead him to find the creature who abducted his friend Claymore. The same awful secret also holds the answer to why the planet has been isolated by the Azten government for the past two hundred years.
Meanwhile, as Tomek hunts for monsters on the tranquil planet, a civil war has broken out in the empire and the sinister Trident organization hasn’t forgotten about their clever nemesis.
Then there’s the Golantan armada that’s heading toward Azten, crushing all resistance in its path…
With Baktu located at the edge of the empire, how will the Bakti manage to resist an invasion on their own?
Hermione's ready for another child. Her first, a son, will soon be relocated to the wilderness. She's hoping for a daughter, a more permanent family member with whom to share her life. Without the money for a hunting license, however, Hermione can't access the preserves and hunt a male.
Help comes from an unexpected source—a human male hunting a fugitive from off world. The human's willing to pay for information leading to the criminal's capture.
Although Hermione finds dealing with an alien male distasteful, his money makes a hunting license possible, and his tracking technology makes locating a healthy Bisbani male easy. Even so, Hermione's not sure she's doing the right thing, and she might be right.
Jimm Grogan's tale of gender inequality, romance, and reproduction calls to mind the short stories of Robert Heinlein. Also included is a free sample from Grogan's new novel, Negative Zero.
A trained vigilante finds himself on an interplanetary run in Jimm Grogan’s thrilling debut novel, Negative Zero.
Tomek lives a seemingly quiet life as a spacecraft engineer for the interstellar Azten Empire of Federated Worlds.
No one knows, however, that during Tomek’s frequent “vacations,” he volunteers for his planet’s police force, tracking down convicted criminals and delivering them to justice. Known for taking on cases that no other volunteer will touch, Tomek uses the code name “Negative Zero” in order to protect himself and those he loves.
Tomek takes on the investigation of a lifetime when he tracks down those responsible for two major crimes: one in which thousands of farmers die of a suspected plague, and another in which the mass murderer uses a mysterious drug to force victims to hand over their wealth before dying.
As Tomek unravels the mystery behind those responsible, he is confident that they will be brought to justice.
But the sinister Trident group has other plans in mind when they eventually find out who Negative Zero really is. As they close in on his location, using corrupt imperial guards as their henchman, Tomek must fight for his life if he is to survive.
Jimm Grogan earned an associate’s degree in electronics and a bachelor’s degree in computer science before launching a career as an engineer for Hewlett Packard, Inc. and PMC-Sierra, Inc.
Grogan currently lives with his spouse in Roseville, California.