Brawling Beauty descends into Tycho crater on approach to the port. A scene from The Deep System: Boxrunner, the first novel in the series.
The crater geography was created using NASA's Moon Trek so the view is about as realistic as I can get it. It makes th settlement look really small but the crater is 4km deep and 85km wide so London would easily
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I have been reading excerpts from my books on twitter and it's been a lot of fun but social media appearances don't pay freight rates so Beauty is back to work.
I've been playing with ideas for better scene lighting so I can drop the ambient lever the render uses to ry and get more drama. I've also added exterior lighting to the space containers
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Yseult Brenneaux is a troublesome freight captain that knows that in teh Deep System, 'kindness gets you killed.'
When idealistic engineer Ellieana Seyka discovers evidence of a conspiracy to hide an intelligent signal from another star system, she will be torn by her sense of trusting her superiors and doing the right thing - her decision leads her on a journey from which there may
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Book two of The Deep System is complete - the first draft, at least. It has taken 12 months and 3 weeks and is 161,222 words.
It feels pretty good to have finished the second in the series because that means it 'is' a series now and I genuinely think this book is better than the first one. I had so much fun writing some
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The Brawling Beauty engages her reversers as she exits the slipstream vortex back into normal space.
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Pirates be up to no good.
I love my Manatee design - it's so modest and unassuming. It doesn't try to be cool or badass. But I figure if some pirates get a hold of one, it wouldn't stay like that for long.
I haven't done too much to it. I gave it an engine upgrade and at teh front added a missile launcher system
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I've learned how to do custom decals and parts for studio which has allowed me to do two things. Now I can put graphics straight onto the bricks and don't have to photoshop them in after the render every time and I can create small parts for details like lights that standard pieces are too big for.
As the graphics are prepped in Photoshop first,
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“Irrinuuga, this is Tourbillion Crimson Horse. All vessels approaching the Exchange are now subject to inspection. Stand to and prepare to receive a shuttle.”
The water tanker Aquon Irrinuuga holds at 4km from the Tourbillion Orbital Exchange over Titan. I think this is my first rendered scene from Book 2: Proteus Rising.
Irri is a benign ship with a whale-like disposition. She is placid and
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Is it just me or do the Beauty's shoulders look jacked from this angle?
But she does work out a lot so...
While the details have evolved and refined over the years since I first sketched her, the Brawling Beauty's two 'arm and fist-like' booms protruding forwards have always been fundamental to her design and yes... she can throw a punch.
What's that? 'But she's
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I'm still hoping to draw in an agent but I can't sit on it forever so...
The first chapter of Boxrunner takes place on 5th January in the year in which it is set so I thought that would be an apt date, albeit it a few centuries early :) to aim for. This gives me time to query but if self-publishing becomes the preferred
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