You heard it here first: This website right here is relaunching.
We will have launch in T minus ….
7 days.
Next Monday I’ll be swapping this site over to the new one, all bright and shiny and ready to take Elite:Dangerous into the next year and beyond.
Its not just a blog or a place to link to my youtube and face channels. Its going to be a portal to drive connection between you and me, for you to become part of the Garry Clan folklore and for me to share my Elite fiction.
Good combination? I sure hope so. The proof will be in the cake (unless the cake is a lie…)
To help launch the site I’ll be running a competition. More info on that during the week. . . .
Kickstarter
Fantastic Books Publishing‘s kickstarter campaign to audiofy its Elite:Dangerous fiction is going well. We’re a shade under a third of the way there in terms of the funding with alot of time still to run. We’re having a lot of fun in the comments section, even starting up some small bits of fiction. There is a story line behind this kickstarter. A gathering of pilots led by Commander Dan with Senator Drew of the Prism solar system waving the flag. But there are traitors and spies in our midst.
And why is the Garry Clan getting involved?
Even if you have no interest in the fiction or audio books, I highly recommend chucking in a solitary buck (at the minimum) just so you can get access to the daily video updates and the evolving story from that. You’ll get value for money just from that alone. The elite dangerous community is really getting behind us and we also featured in the latest Frontier Developments newsletter.
Novel progress
I received the complete reviewed manuscript back from the publishers last week with instructions to ‘have that back to us in a few weeks will you old chap?’
Holy crap was my first response. My second was to ask for an extension. However, I’ve been ripping through the very minor edits in good time so I’m looking good to have this edit done this year. Here’s the ol’ fancy progress meter to show you where I”m at:
Word Count:122,683 (down from 124,644 in the Beta edit)
All the edits suggested by the publisher have been small things, a nip here, a tuck there, but the effect is eye opening. I’m pretty sure this story will be finishing below 120,000 words which will be great. I’m predicting 115k at this stage. We’ll see 🙂
Commander’s Log
A reminder that Episode 11 came out lately where I have quite the discussion on the recent designs coming to light in the design decision forum archives.
So come on in and have a listen to: Podcast # 11: ‘Discourse at Veedze’
Newsletter
Geez, talk about the last minute. The November newsletter is almost complete, I’m just waiting for you buggers to tell me what engineering design/concepts/ideals that relate to Elite:Dangerous you would like me to discuss. No feedback last week, so should I assume the engineering section of the newsletter doesn’t tickle anyone’s fancy? Anything else you would like to see in the newsletter instead? hit me up in the comments or email me at john_at_andherethewheel.co.nz
Garry Clan Trailer
If you haven’t already seen this, check it out below. Its awesome*, with a killer sound track that really hits the mood of Elite:And Here The Wheel.
*(because I said so).
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Exciting times, coming up guys and gals. Come back next Monday for something very special!
Cheers,
John
And Here The Wheel 
Hi John, sorry for not responding last week. If you could discuss the origins of the current Jumpdrive/Frameshift technology that is supposed to be in the game that would be fantastic. Or maybe the impact it has had on the variuos kinds of professions that are connected to that. Like:
– What does it mean for stations that were generally in the outback? More profit from their goods or easier acces to other goods?
– Engineers on stations laid off because of the new technology or new jobs because of a bigger drive to get a ship with new technology?
– Wat was the push to invent this technology? Was it intented as such or did some nutty professor stumble upon this tech? Or was it stolen from the Thargoids?
– Has Einstein been proven wrong or right by this technology? Does Einstein still matter in 34th century and who are the main names in that field at that time and what did they accomplish? (Quantum Physics I mean)
– What happened to all the ship owners and their ships containing previous tech.
Hi Juuriaan
Great ideas there. Most of that is actually already been developed by Frontier Developments and is available as background info for the writers. I think there may be some scope there for me to work an angle. I’ll see what I can do.
Thanks for the ideas
YW!
Just so I understand: what are you planning to do with thiese ideas? Just stuff to write about in your next blogpost?
My next newsletter which should be out later this week.
Owh John… one other thing:
I was listening to your latest podcast the other day and I noticed a lot of hiss effects on the t’s and s’s. you might want to try and repair that next time you record that. It was almost painful to listen at.
Still I chronically fall asleep whiile listening to both your and LaveRadio’s podcasts 🙂 And that is not out of boredom but your voices are somehow soothing to the mind.
Cheers!
Hmm, thanks for the heads up. The only thing i changed was the headset microphone. Perhaps its time to go back to the old one.
Cheers,
John
I looked for your podcast thru iTunes and couldn’t see it, am I missing something?
I used the itunes link on the podcast page earlier today and that showed it. Have you tried there?