COLLABORATIONS & COMMENTS

The risk of posting a Collaborations page, of course, is that someone may run off and develop an idea or create a similar storyline.

The benefit of asking for opinions and impressions of your work from people who have no reason to hold back candid but courteous suggestions, however, outweigh those risks. Besides, copyright proof for each of the following stories has already been filed. If you have the time and inclination, here are seven of the author’s projects currently in various stages of completion. Submitted for your feedback:

GREAT NATIONS DARE TO EXPLORE

The galley of this book has been printed for proofing, although the author has invited several prominent space-related subject matter experts (“SMEs”) to contribute to an additional chapter of essays on various strategic topics, such as “Risk,” “Vision,” and “Space in National Strategy.” The book is in legal review with NASA so please refrain from copying any of the images or text or claiming them as your own.

Most punctuation or style inconsistencies will be caught in final editing, but you are welcome to point them out. The author requests your insights, examples to help illustrate points, logic misfires, and confusing or unclear trains of thought.

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FOLLOWERSHIP: THE MANUAL

This book is available in paper (First Edition) through Amazon.com and digitally for download on kindle.com (Third Edition). The book is a collection of tenets and lessons-learned collected from Great Followers.  The Third Edition includes additional tenets.

Submitted for your constructive criticism, especially to solicit new tenets, identify unclear connections, clarify points, and add insightful examples (personal or historic).

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DAYLIGHT

This book is in that proverbial “gleam in Daddy’s eye” phase. It’s pre-conceived as a follow-on book to the author’s first publication, “This and That.”  Unlike the first book of stories and poems written for a mostly younger audience,” the author plans to include a section titled “Things Too Dark to Ignore” for more mature contemplation.  Most of the works included in this book are unpublished drafts: the author exercises all copyrights.

Submitted for your constructive criticism, insight, and comments.

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UNBROKEN THREADS

Intended as prequel books 1, 2 and 3 to the author’s Flatcreek Tales series, these 35 or more short, almost independent, chapters together tell the story before the stories.  Like Flatcreek Tales, the books will be written as read-out-loud bedtime fables, each with a gentle core lesson or point.

Most punctuation or style inconsistencies will be caught in final editing but you are welcome to point them out. What the author hopes to gain from your comments are your philosophic insights, subplot ideas, and the identification of confusing descriptions and unclear settings.

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T. CRATER

This kernel of a story may simply be added as chapters in the author’s work in progress, “Daylight,” a follow-up to “This and That.”  If the storyline shows promise, however, it may become a book of its own.

Submitted for your suggestions and plot twist ideas.

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THE THEORY OF TRUTH

Much in the vein of the author’s book on Followership, this book is targeted at a business audience, although its precepts may have much broader applications and relevance.  It attempts to use geometry as an analog to the construction of truths.

Envisioned as a short read and, currently, in little more than an outline, it is posted and submitted for philosophical discussion, insights, and constructive criticism.

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ARTHUR: A SOLDIER’S STORY

This book presents Arthur’s 200-page diary of World War One experiences written between 1914-1919, adding background, additional research, and other historical perspectives.

Envisioned as a 60,000-word novel, with a first draft almost complete, it is posted and submitted for discussion on what’s missing, organization, suggestions, ideas for subplots and threads, and general constructive criticism.

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