Author Archives: George Phillies

A rough draft of the Telzey Amberdon novel is complete and is in the hands of beta readers. If you would like to see it, please ask.

I finished the first draft of the Telzey Amberdon novel, for which I do not have a title yet. Several friends who asked for a copy of the first draft were sent one. It reached 122,000 or so words.

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).