Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Book Signing

Hello again,

Will be doing a book signing and book sale (for donations, to benefit the St. Louis Crisis Nursery) as part of the St. Charles County Library Annual Local Author Open House, look for my table and posters of my book covers, I will likely be somewhere in the maze of tables.

Date/Time: 19 November 2015, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM CST
Location: Spencer Road Branch-Community Commons 427 Spencer Rd, St Peters, MO 63376

Last blog I forgot to mention a children's pseudo-fiction book Meiklo's Day Home, which features simple words, and fun drawings of our rat-terrier Meiklo, in his real behaviors.

It shows that book as featured, but I will bring copies of all of my books, including my latest kid's space books. Good fun every time.

if nothing else, browse the group of authors and support them too, and if you come by, feel free to ask questions about my books, or anything I might try to explain.

thank you as always, and humbly yours,
Bryce


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Hello all my readers and want to be readers, or those just curious!

I write four kinds of books (mostly):

  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy
    • So Far, Just Web of Ice, Gossamer Crystals,. though I have another one that is finished and in edit.
  • Science and Engineering, for kids and adults
    • You Will ___ Space (TM)
      • Guides with experiments, that teach kids of all ages the basics of space exploration and colonization, including engines, habitats, spaceships, spaceflight, etc.
    • Fishes and Whales (TM)  Series
      • Simple fun, and verse, with colorful drawings of real fish, whales, dolphins, manatees, seals, sea lions, invertebrates, etc. in real ecosystems, with identification guides at the end. Each book focuses on a locale or type. The latest was focuses for example on coral reefs.  The next book will focus on the Arctic Ocean and Circle, the next after that on Africa's Rivers. 
      • A spin-off series of upper grade level and up short books that focus on food webs, morphology, and other fish ecology and ichthyology topics. 
      • Note, if you liked any drawings in those books, I keep an e-store to market those. Just search for the species and my name. 
  • Fishing Travel Books.
    • The last book was focused on the Branson area and Lake Taneycomo. A new book (see below)  is 40% done.
  • Puppy and other books
    • Meiklo's Day Home,and  Poor Bucks Trial are examples.  Cute books just because I wanted to put puppies in books. Poor Bucks Trial is a fictional story, though the locale is roughly Busch Wildlife Area in Weldon Springs, and the 1970's. Meiklo's Day Home is about my dog, Meiklo, and features many of his typical behaviors.
Current Projects:
1) Just released You Will Design Spaceships, and soon to follow will be a kids book on spaceflight including orbits, landing, docking, and interstellar flight, You Will Fly Spaceships, targeting January 2016. I originally combined the two spaceship books, but broke them up to add more topics and experiments. After that maybe a book on Space Farms, since I have some professional papers published on the topic, and am building a new model for one.
2) I am doing up a new fishing travel book, focusing on target of opportunity fishing and a few major locations in the USA, formatted a bit differently than the Taneycomo Book.  TBD on date for that one. 
3) Have a new Sci-Fi novel done, new universe than the previous book, may debut on Amazon Scout in early 2016/ late 2015.
4) Look at a rewrite  of Webs of Ice, Gossamer Crystals under a new title based on some very good feedback by my friends.  Will be expanded and grown up a bit, likely more than the 50K words now, maybe minus some illustrations. Look for a prequel of that book in novel form sometime next year. 

Thank you for all your support and future support, 
Bryce