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Dan Gallagher
To the Arel Sea and Aydar Lake areas of the old Soviet Union to take photos of old bio and genetic research sites... but there's one southeast of Aydar that is inaccessible, and it'd be too gruesome to see what's down there anyway.
Dan Gallagher
What was the banshee figure I saw at 13, and does it try to follow through life. It was exactly that, and it tries!
Dan Gallagher
As to recent fiction, please see my answer to the previous question.
As for my financial book: SSFP was to cap a thirty-year career in financial planning with a highly controversial (as to disclosure and approach to FP) with a zero-bias and story-filled help to the widest range of reader/users. I retired at 59 and am no longer licensed; this is how SSFP is without bias or client acquisition agenda.
As for my financial book: SSFP was to cap a thirty-year career in financial planning with a highly controversial (as to disclosure and approach to FP) with a zero-bias and story-filled help to the widest range of reader/users. I retired at 59 and am no longer licensed; this is how SSFP is without bias or client acquisition agenda.
Dan Gallagher
With regard to most of my fiction: I am fascinated by cryptozoology and natural science, especially anthropology paleontology and genetics. That said, please note that am a skeptic of most reports of cryptids... most. I know that science has discovered that genetic traits are chemically marked for dormancy and can be made to express, including personality genes and fantastic ancient attributes, such as saber teeth in cats. I know also that there exists exactly one prophecy that, in one form or another, is common to the mainstreams of nearly all religions and myth traditions: Some form or regeneration of humanity and the animal kingdom, essentially a return of Eden. Between actual genetic research and certain natural phenomena, such a resurrection is can be physically manifested. While I am skeptical of my own scenarios, my stories are based upon is real genetics (including a cascade of lineal change rather than modification of a single animal or human, a process I call the "cascade") and real prophecy. The Pleistocene Redemption, first positing this in 1996, was the first book to ever describe the "cascade" though a few have either copied aspects or independently derived them. So, as I improved it over the last 20+ years, some flippant "literary professionals" dismissed my story premise as having been done before. I could only smirk. Liberty Island Media and I are working to have the last laugh on this!
Dan Gallagher
4 Items:
1. I have a contract with a financial firm to revamp nearly all of its marketing communications, customer-facing and representative-facing.
2. Final revisions of my 1998 novel, The Pleistocene Redemption. These will be re-submitted June 1 2019 to Liberty Island Media, which has assigned specific changes and--sadly--required the arbitrary cutting of length from 105k words to 70,000 (I cannot artfully go below 78,000 and am quite nervous about the re-submission. If LIM declines, I will reluctantly self-publish at the end of the summer rather than cut (more) "muscle" from this project, re-titled Ancient of Genes (AOG).
3. I am accumulating improvements to The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning for Skyhorse Publishing, which will decide on a second edition around the end of June 2019.
4. My Travels Through Flame (TTF) anthology has just 3 of 10 story pairs complete: Pairs 1, 3 and 4 are complete but the second in that series has been set aside for too long. I must complete pair 2 before moving forward with the others. TTF is a sequel to AOG, in the form of short stories, one set in ancient times, one in the near future. These progress like chapters in a novel. (See StoriesAmazing.com for all of my fiction). At least all 20 stories are outlined!
1. I have a contract with a financial firm to revamp nearly all of its marketing communications, customer-facing and representative-facing.
2. Final revisions of my 1998 novel, The Pleistocene Redemption. These will be re-submitted June 1 2019 to Liberty Island Media, which has assigned specific changes and--sadly--required the arbitrary cutting of length from 105k words to 70,000 (I cannot artfully go below 78,000 and am quite nervous about the re-submission. If LIM declines, I will reluctantly self-publish at the end of the summer rather than cut (more) "muscle" from this project, re-titled Ancient of Genes (AOG).
3. I am accumulating improvements to The Secrets of Successful Financial Planning for Skyhorse Publishing, which will decide on a second edition around the end of June 2019.
4. My Travels Through Flame (TTF) anthology has just 3 of 10 story pairs complete: Pairs 1, 3 and 4 are complete but the second in that series has been set aside for too long. I must complete pair 2 before moving forward with the others. TTF is a sequel to AOG, in the form of short stories, one set in ancient times, one in the near future. These progress like chapters in a novel. (See StoriesAmazing.com for all of my fiction). At least all 20 stories are outlined!
Dan Gallagher
Keep a writer's notebook with experiences, details, musings and sources that can later be used in your work. Dare to have life experiences that are dangerous, intriguing, exhausting, etc. so that your writing will be engaging and plausible.
Dan Gallagher
I outline longer works and critique it for logical flaws, plausibility, emotion generation, artful use of appropriate elements of fiction (and dramatic nonfiction) and other aspects. I fantasize what I research, meaning I imagine and even modify scenarios concerning the fascinating things I research. I only write about things with which I have life experiences so that military and action scenes, close calls with large predators, etc. are realistic. I never write fantasy or the types of SF that involve elements that are not plausible.
Dan Gallagher
Observing readers who "got it", were prompted to grapple with serious issues and potentialities, laughed and experienced emotion.
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