Project Thirteen Hertz
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 15:24Title: Project Thirteen Hertz
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Champions Online
Characters/pairings: Private/PFC Buffy Evans (AKA: Thirteen Hertz)
Disclaimer: You know the routine: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's probably not mine.
Author's note: This is the origin story of one of my Champions Online characters. Don't ask me why she insisted on being released to play, but she did.
Word count: 7,320
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Thanks, Mom! Thanks, Dad!
Monday, July 12th, 2010 10:07Thanks, Mom! Thanks, Dad!
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drained
"Knights in Tarnished Armor" finally published!
Saturday, April 24th, 2010 22:42Yes, that's right. I've finally strapped on my patented Shinji Ikari portaspine, stopped compulsively editing and re-editing, and handed Knights in Tarnished Armor off to a publisher. It's now available as an ebook, in Kindle, Epub, LRF, PDB, HTML, PDF, RTF, and Text formats, for $4.95 a copy (or, if you use Coupon Code SX84W when you check out, you can get your copy for free, until May 7, 2010). For people who prefer a recycled tree edition, you can get it as a 6"x9" paperback for $15.55.
Now, before I lose my nerve, I need to make sure First Contact is clean, set it up for publishing, and then package all the various short stories I've written into an anthology (still working on a title for that) that will get the same treatment.
If anyone can recommend a good, high-quality FLOSS TTS program that I can use to produce an audio version of the book, I'd be grateful enough to send them a free copy of what comes out when I process it through the program.
If quality TTS just isn't available in FLOSS, I may just have to bite the bullet and burn out my vocal cords. If that's the case, so be it, but I really do want an audio version of the book available for my friends who are blind or otherwise need a copy they can listen to.
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accomplished
Reap This! (Chapter 6)
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 00:10Title: Reap This! (Chapter 6)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus/Kad'rianna Salustan, Alexandra Cooper/Lauren Jefferson, Shepard/Urz
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: The Illusive Man gets taken down - or does he?
Word count: 26,083
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creative
Reap This! (Chapter 5)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 19:53Title: Reap This! (Chapter 5)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus/Kad'rianna Salustan, Alexandra Cooper/Lauren Jefferson, Miranda Lawson/Faern'ya Rastain, Shepard/Urz
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: The KiTA invasion, asteroid racing, and Urz!
Word count: 16,683
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creative
Reap This! (Chapter 4)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 19:50Title: Reap This! (Chapter 4)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: The Illusive Man makes his move to punish Miranda ... and we strike back. Hard.
Word count: 22,386
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creative
Reap This! (Chapter 3)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 19:47Title: Reap This! (Chapter 3)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: They called it a suicide mission. Maybe if we were still working for Cerberus it would be.
Word count: 4,646
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creative
Reap This! (Chapter 2)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 19:43Title: Reap This! (Chapter 2)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: What name do you give a geth when you're under fire? How about one that's easy to remember, even if you're not a Biblical scholar?
Word count: 9,187
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creative
Reap This! (Chapter 1)
Saturday, March 20th, 2010 19:38Title: Reap This! (Chapter 1)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Mass Effect
Characters/pairings: Tali'Zorah vas Normandy/Fred MacManus
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: So there we were, decelerating into the Skepsis system, when this insane guy knocked on our airlock door. At 200c!
Word count: 12,746
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creative
Falling into Memories, Chapter 1
Sunday, December 20th, 2009 15:24Title: Falling into Memories (Chapter 1)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Fallen Earth
Characters/pairings: Diana Kinsman(?)
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: What happens when a LifeNet clone awakens with memories of another world - a world where Shiva not only did not happen, but could not happen? How far can she trust her memories? For that matter, how will those memories affect how she sees the world around her, and how those around her view her?
Word count: 4750
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creative
Small Acts of Capitalism
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 19:00Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Characters/pairings: Imoen
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: There's always a deal to be had ... if you know where to find it.
Word count: 4308
Insert fake LJ cut here
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creative
A Visit From St. Nicholas
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 06:44Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Characters/pairings: Imoen
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: For someone who grumbles that he's nothing like St. Nicholas, he's sure generous....
Word count: 3198
Insert fake LJ cut here
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creative
New Clothes and Old Wounds
Sunday, July 12th, 2009 08:56Title: Imoen (Chapter Two: New Clothes and Old Wounds)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Characters/pairings: Imoen
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it’s not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it’s not mine.
Author’s note: Everybody hurts. Some people just cover it better than others, until they have the opportunity to let it out safely. If what's in this chapter sounds even vaguely like anything in your own life, I strongly suggest you contact SAFE.
Unpayable Silence by Mittnatsol, just happened to be up on my Last.fm rotation when I was writing this chapter, so it made it into the story.
You can find every article of clothing in the box, at Pegasus Publishing. I've been shopping there for years. It's the definitive geek's clothing store.
Word count: 3058
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Out of a Game and Into the World
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 07:57Title: Imoen (Chapter One: Out of a Game and Into the World)
Author: Bill Hartwell
Rating: teens
Fandom: Baldur's Gate
Characters/pairings: Imoen
Disclaimer: If you recognize it, and it's not from Knights in Tarnished Armor, it's not mine.
Author's note: Reverse Pandimensional Universal Solipsism applies to role-playing games, too.
Word count: 3741
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First of May
Friday, May 1st, 2009 02:56That's right, it's the First of May.
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creative
Sneak Preview
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 21:47- Current Mood:
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Daughter of Darkness
Thursday, January 1st, 2009 14:07Here's the way one person responded to the devastation.
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
eve-online, fiction, Amarr, Minmatar
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