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Raymund Eich

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Raymund Eich files patent applications, earned a Ph.D., won a national quiz bowl championship, writes science fiction, and affirms Robert Heinlein's dictum that specialization is for insects.

In a typical day, he may talk with biochemists, electrical engineers, patent attorneys, and rocket scientists. Hundreds of papers cite his graduate research on the reactions of nitric oxide with heme proteins.

His novels include the Stone Chalmers series of wormhole espionage adventures—THE PROGRESS OF MANKIND, THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD, TO ALL HIGH EMPRISE CONSECRATED, and IN PUBLIC CONVOCATION ASSEMBLED—the Confederated Worlds military science fiction series—TAKE THE SHILLING, OPERATION IAGO, and A BODYGUARD OF LIES—and evolutionary psychology hard scie ...more

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Raymund Eich The single best advice I can give an aspiring writer is *listen to your creative voice.* Not only does your creative voice know how to tell stories, b…moreThe single best advice I can give an aspiring writer is *listen to your creative voice.* Not only does your creative voice know how to tell stories, but your creative voice tells stories that matter the most to you. The more a story matters to you, the more it will matter to readers.

Related to this, *lock everyone else out of your writing office.* A metaphor, but it's a good one. By everyone, I mean *everyone*. Your biggest fans and the people who leave drive-by one-star reviews. Loved ones and strangers. Your English teacher—this is not the place to worry about grammar. Your MFA professor—this is not the place to worry about symbols, metaphors, and themes. And especially not thought police of any stripe. You don't want to write about women or minorities? Don't. Your female characters fail the Bechdel test? That's fine.

Follow *Heinlein's Rules*. Write. Finish. Don't rewrite. Put on market. Keep on market. Repeat with the next story. The more I do this, the more fun I have in my career.

Finally, *learn business.* Understand copyright. You aren't selling a story, you're licensing that story in a certain format in a particular place for a selected period of time. And learn the other aspects of your business. https://kriswrites.com/category/busin... is a great place to start.

Postscript: if you like learning from books, *Techniques of the Selling Writer* by Dwight V. Swain is the single best craft book out there.(less)

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Raymund Eich [2019-02-06] I'm working on a space adventure novel with the working title The Reincarnation Run. It's set in a galaxy with hundreds of independent hu…more[2019-02-06] I'm working on a space adventure novel with the working title The Reincarnation Run. It's set in a galaxy with hundreds of independent human colonies, kind of like the Federal Empire/Thousand Worlds setting of most of George R. R. Martin's '70s and '80s science fiction. I like the setting enough that I might write other stories and novels in it.

Back to The Reincarnation Run. After living in Texas for a while, I heard about ‘coyotes,’ the criminals who smuggle illegal immigrants from Mexico into the United States. There’s nothing heroic about these criminals—they take the life savings of poor Latin Americans and leave them to die of thirst and heat in the West Texas desert—but the concept lodged in my memory.

Sometime after that, I read a news story about the Dalai Lama and realized he’s an elderly man. Infogalactic tells me he's 83 years old. The Tibetans believe each Dalai Lama is the reincarnation of the previous one, and they have a complicated process for finding the next one.

These ideas combined and sparked the novel. In contemporary terms, imagine a people smuggler leading the next Dalai Lama, a child born among Tibetan exiles in India, into Chinese-occupied Tibet to spark a rebellion. It's not as simple as that, of course. Among other things, the people smuggler is wrestling with his own religious background.(less)

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	Take the Shilling (The Confederated Worlds, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Operation Iago (The Confederated Worlds Book 2) 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Progress of Mankind (Stone Chalmers, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 18 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Bodyguard of Lies (The Confederated Worlds, #3) 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reincarnation Run (The Settled Galaxy, #1) 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Azureseas: Cantrell's War 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Confederated Worlds: Take the Shilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard of Lies 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Escape from Conatus (The Incepti Cataclysm, #1) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stealing Fire from the Gods: Six Speculative Fictions 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revelation in Vela (The Incepti Cataclysm, #2) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Can science fiction show average Americans a way to take back their government? Is there a high-tech equivalent to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or All the President’s Men? I’ll explore the concept in this series of blog posts. You can find part one here. “My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove” Last time, […]

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message 8: by E.M.

Nov 21, 2011 05:13PM

Looks good!

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message 7: by Raymund

Nov 15, 2011 02:31PM

Emily, how does raymundeich.com look now?

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message 6: by Raymund

Nov 15, 2011 02:22PM

That's a good reminder that I copy over my books-links pages from cv2books.com.

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message 5: by E.M.

Nov 15, 2011 02:20PM

I will! I went to your site but don't see specific links to your books. Are you going to set up an a-store for yourself with Amazon?

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message 4: by Raymund

Nov 15, 2011 02:17PM

Maybe May 2012? Keep me posted!

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message 3: by E.M.

Nov 15, 2011 02:15PM

Not scheduled yet. They just bought it a couple of weeks ago or so. They'd be just receiving the contracts and all that stuff.

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message 2: by Raymund

Nov 15, 2011 02:06PM

I remember talking about the Jovian moons way back when. Analog! When's it coming out?

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message 1: by E.M.

Nov 15, 2011 02:04PM

I am Ramund's only friend :-)

Oh, and Raymund, that short story you helped me with eight years ago? It's coming out in Analog and still has the character named after you. (You helped me figure out how the Jovian moons would look from Ganymede.)

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