Author Archives: George Phillies

This month for many reasons was seriously nonproductive. Telzey has only advanced to 112,000 words.

As of yesterday, 106,500 words on Telzey.

Did a consistency rewrite on Telzey. Side note: Last year, there were countable sales of my Elementary Lectures in Statistical Mechanics, enough to suggest that someplace the book was adopted by a university physics class. I have no idea where.

For what it is worth, on his date I reached 104,000 words on the Telzey novel.

For what it is worth, I have reached 95,000 words on the Telzey novel.

Progress, and a bit of a Chapter The Telzey book is now half-done or a bit more. A major theme will be the Federation’s blind spot, failing to see how technology might be corrupted. We saw that in The lion … Continue reading →

I am now up to 83,000 words, so surely half-done or more. I am currently in a phase where the word count will not change much, though work is being done, because I am blending something I wrote earlier into … Continue reading →

The novel is over 75,000 words. Today was slow on word count, because I was reworking something already written to fix inconsistencies, but I still added 700 words. (Yesterday was over 2000).

A few of you will remember SF Author James Schmitz, who mostly wrote a half century ago, including e.g., The Witches of Karres. His most-memorable character and setting were, however, teen telepath Telzey Amberdon and the Federation of the Hub. … Continue reading →

My New Year’s Revolution, err, Resolution From “Do not call up that which you cannot put down.” “Finish that which you began” I have a series of novels to finish TZA 55,000 words negotiating on rights. Title secret until thenTerrorforming … Continue reading →