Author Archives: J. C. Conway

Kobo 3 For Price of 2 Sale, Featuring Hearts in Ruin and Other Great Titles

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From October 6, 2015 through October 11, 2015, Kobo is featuring a special offer allowing readers to purchase three eBooks for the price of two on select titles. Kobo calls it a “Buy Two, Get One Free” sale. One of … Continue reading

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What do I Get Out of NaNoWriMo?

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National Novel Writing Month is November. The idea is to pound out a 50,000-word novel during that 30-day span. Thousands of writers and aspiring writers participate in the event, including me. Each participant can tell you what they get out … Continue reading

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Planetary Ingress and Egress: The Space Elevator

We must find a better way to move ourselves, and our stuff, into space. Rocket boosters are messy, expensive, dangerous and wasteful. The potential solutions include space elevators, high-altitude rail guns, and gravity-modification technology. There are engineering problems with each–including the … Continue reading

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NAMIWalks Los Angeles County 2015–Support Mental Health and Encourage Treatment Without Stigma

This Saturday I will join thousands of Angelinos participating in NAMIWalks Los Angeles County 2015–the county’s largest event to support mental health and fight the stigma people affected by mental illness and their families face every day. The money we … Continue reading

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The March of Physics

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I would love to go back to school. Not that I haven’t been fortunate enough to enjoy more than my share already. But there are still subjects I wish I knew better. I think if I could take yet another … Continue reading

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Five Flash Stories Accepted for Anthology

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Five of my new flash fiction stories have been accepted for publication in the flash anthology, More Tales from the Blue Gonk Café. The Blue Gonk is a café that has days in which selected storytellers come to give the … Continue reading

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Crossing the Celestial Equator

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To Those Before Us and All That They Have Done, May We Do the Same

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The Bridge Builder An old man going a lone highway Came in the evening, cold and gray, To a chasm vast, both deep and wide, Through which was flowing a sullen tide. The old man crossed in the twilight dim; … Continue reading

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Elusive Red Sprite Seen From the Space Station

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Originally posted on Lights in the Dark:
NASA photo ISS044-E-45576 showing storms over southern Mexico on Aug. 10, 2015. (NASA/JSC) Let’s take a look back at our own planet for a moment with this stunning photo captured from the Space…

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Pluto and beyond: Voyaging into interstellar space

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