Ken Farmer

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I was born in Arkansas, but grew up in Oklahoma and Louisiana. Coming from a reading family, I was introduced to books at an extremely early age and soon had a bookcase full of my own.

I was a child of the dawning electronics age, and after my military service in the Marines I began as an engineer for IBM and saw the birth of the personal computer – a time when a nerd, to use a term that had not yet been invented in today’s context, had to build one with loose parts and a soldering iron.

Somewhere along the many years of college, I dropped the techie's usual distaste of liberal arts and discovered the pleasure of living a fantasy experience by writing historical fiction. Coupled with an intense interest in ancient history, it became my major
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Ken Farmer Actually, your comment on language would be humorous to my friends. I have been submerged in the Republic for so long, that even my coffee shop talk g…moreActually, your comment on language would be humorous to my friends. I have been submerged in the Republic for so long, that even my coffee shop talk gets some amusing questions as to my lingo. "The coffee is more goodsome this day than on the yestereve," tends to make strangers think I am an import to this country.

Anyway, thanks for the kind comments. Champion of Rome (working title) is almost halfway finished.

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Ken Farmer I am about 80 percent into Champion of Rome. It will probably be finished this month, but it takes at least another month or two for proofing. I have …moreI am about 80 percent into Champion of Rome. It will probably be finished this month, but it takes at least another month or two for proofing. I have learned not to skip on that part.

Starts about 525 BCE, which, of course, it about fifteen years before the Republic was formed.

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More on self-editing.

I have been testing Grammerly as one of the tools for proofing and it is a definite help. Actually, a really good help. It is definitely NOT a "submit book and receive perfectly edited text in return." Far from it.

But, it will find many hard-to-see-by-the-author errors and the continual referencing back and forth from the text column to the suggested error lists somehow makes the mind reset and se Read more of this blog post »
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