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boznz
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Fearless diver, world traveller, and Electronics and Computer Genius who has now found solace in writing novels which fantasise about the unknown, people, politics, AI and the (generally optimistic) future of humanity.
My first three books are a near-future sci-fi trilogy, which has now been combined into a single 370,000 word eBook, and is available as a free download everywhere except Amazon. [https://rodyne.com/?p=1252].
My last novel is a stand-alone techno-thriller available on-line everywhere in e-book or paperback. [https://rodyne.com/?p=1446]
I live at rodyne.com where you can find out everything you need to know, get in touch or even hire me for your next project.
- boznzAs a percentage of theoretical physicists it is probably significant though. A Better question is how much love/money/attention is going into rival theories ?
- As an independent author you can do what you wish. The only restriction is if you are in the Amazon KDP select program then you have promised Amazon exclusive use for a cut of the Kindle Select pie. I also distribute my books on all the other platforms, and for my free sci-fi book host it direct on my web site and on my Ko-Fi shop (the 'buy-me-a-coffee' site). Selling directly and collecting money requires a bit too much work but technically you could do it.
- What a fantastic idea, I have about 30 years of writing, mostly chapters and plots for novels that did not coalesce. Love to know how it turns out too.
- Always has been as an electronics engineer. I always loved designing and building the circuits, but when the PCB came back from the assembly house with a microprocessor in it, that is usually where the grunt work started. As a contractor I see a lot of different microprocessors and architectures, and just being good at C is not enough as you need to know all the register layouts, idiosyncrasies, and how all the peripherals are configured and work. AI has at least been a godsend here as it can condense 1000's of pages of datasheets and erratas into a working example in a few seconds, so writing my test suites or firmware no longer takes forever and I can get on with the good bits :-)
- A shameless trip down memory lane after re-discovering my first Turbo Pascal program
- 17 points
- Would you really want to be that first patient to be revived ?
- Half my spam folder is currently from the same group of people, with similar sales pitches, though one also promised 25 five star Amazon reviews for $200 which is scary if true. The whole blog post just about sums up an indie writers journey, having to become a reluctant marketing person, and fighting the algorithm for recognition; the meme nailed it.
Luckily I came to realise after my first book that writing was not about the sales (though that was the starting goal), but about finally putting all my ideas into a bunch of characters and having them live the life and fantasies I never could in a world I created. I got an email out of the blue this week from somebody who read my free sci-fi novel and liked it, such small things really makes the journey worth it.
- Maybe he has Microsoft Copilot Full-Self-Driving installed
- Damn, just as I ordered Starlink to replace my ADSL
- Only Apple would consider selling millions, but not tens of millions a failure.
- Old codger here, happy to rewrite any of your bloated software to run on a twenty year old PC at reasonable rates..
- DOS was basically bare-metal programming with a few hardware and software calls thrown in. With 50 cent ARM processors these days having the power of an 80's mainframe Bare-metal on $5 dev-board is still my preferred way to go for simple projects that boot instantly and never need updates. I'm currently listening to music on a DOS MP3 player on a throwaway industrial x86 motherboard I built into an amplifier case 23 years ago.
- Weird Question, but who would even collect the royalties from Hitler or Goebels?
- 9 points
- SMS works just fine for me, but international calling is a killer, it's 2025 you would think this would be free by now.
- Another hypothesis. Have AI generate a top 50 list of books, and add a book you want your website to promote into the mix somewhere near the top to increase its sales. Cheap marketing, It wouldn't be the first time.