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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19048342597246557252014-12-14T15:48:27.852Zthe Free Planet novel seriesFree Planet¹ CUSTODIAN, Free Planet² LIBERATOR, Free Planet³ REAPER,Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-21399250014717518762014-12-14T08:58:00.003Z2014-12-14T15:48:27.873ZReaper (free planet #3) recommencing - ideas coming thick and fast - Kumiko (war world #3) first draft completionduring a recent extended week's holiday from my regular (bus driving) day job, I put in a good few hours per day i.e. a good few thousands of words per day, into Kumiko (war world #3). Kumiko was at the 52,000 words mark when I started my 'holiday' -- this was a mixture of 39,000 words of eight finished chapters + 13,000 words of extra notes etc. At the end of the holiday Kumiko was a much more finalised 13 finished chapters and a healthier 63,000 words. It'll be a little more than this when I've finished polishing it, but that's cool for now. Yes, I type fast when needs must and I can restructure a whole novel on the fly (as I had to here) under strict time/motion constraints.

What this means is that (while there are a couple of narrative threads to tidy up in the Kumiko first draft and a general spit and polish on the technical aspects of War World's ranks and badges) I'm happy that I've done all I can with that side of the Earth story and can now focus upon Reaper (free planet #3) as Xmas 2014 dawns and the publication year of 2015 for the tandem third parts in the Free Planet vs War World trilogies looms. I have a few more lieu days of holiday next week, so I've ample time to pen a good wedge of Reaper stuff.

The important thing is THE DREAMS HAVE STARTED. And by this I mean, "I can always tell when a novel needs to start because I start getting insistent and specific dreams about it. I've had TWO very important i.e very Reaper-relevant early-morning dreams already this week, so my Writer Mind (lol) is nagging that I 'crack on with it'." Yes, I realise the dream content is arbitrary and subjective, but I seem to know where all this material fits in - like magic. Reaper has over-grown enough now, and the story begs to be clipped and shaped. Like a hedge. Fun'd...

Running total: 20,000 words, and rising.Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-14135063675903968482014-08-04T08:23:00.000+01:002014-11-10T09:29:38.656ZReaper FP #3 - ORGANIC vs CRYSTALLINE - third split narrative

FEB 28th 2014
this happened, the genie escaped the bottle, I can't put it back in. I was there, like a good little writer, hammering away on the keyboard, re-writing chapter one (again), then re-arranging and restructuring chapter two (nipping an tucking, adding and taking away), now having a go at chapter three of 'free plane #3' novel Reaper and it just WHAM BAM THANK YOU MAM'd me.

CUSTODIAN (fp #1) was The Custodians vs You The People.

LIBERATOR (fp #2) was Civilian vs Military.

REAPER (fp #3) turns out to be Organic vs Crystalline.

Yeah, I know, I was surprised by that development, too. I certainly didn't expect to go in this direction with book three. In fact, nowhere in the detailed plan I have for the conclusion of this three-book series is there any mention of crystalline existence. But there it is.

It came from an examination of the old Patent Database - the Custodian Liberation aka McCardle and Hoskins finally get their finger out and start sifting through the Privatised Creativity, Passion and Kinship Store of ancient inventors for the good of mankind rather than the cynical furtherance of the Profit margin. And there it was ... the elixir of life, or at least the bridge to everlasting life.

Of course, I realise I've put a narrative cat among my pigeons. Do I care? Yes, it's giving me a headache, but I do this for you, sweet nectarous reader, so that you can find some succour in your daily grind.

MARCH 16th UPDATE: I was actually considering giving up (for profit) writing for good last night. I came this close to never finishing WATCHER or REAPER. I thought, "Why should I when I alraedy have the novels in my head?" what do I need to gain from commercialising my talent? But I made a major discovery today. And that's powered me on to get these two books finished this year.

In February, I 'got inspired' to start writing about CRYSTALLINE EXISTENCE in REAPER (free planet #3). It's based on my ideas of a Sentient Water Planet i.e. Earth's real presence, its ancestry. I thought of the least likely crystal that could be out there i.e. a WATER BASED CRYSTAL that grows from salt water (with a special catalyst, nudge wink) the way salt is harvested from water.

Today's major discovery is a real mineral called RINGWOODITE that has 15% by weight of water trapped in it. I'm loath to call 'my crystal' Ringwoodite but there's no reason why I can't have a more purified form of the crystal as the basis for the Eternal Life & Homes (albeit undersea) in this third book. The crystalised memories of the ancestors forming the structures within which Free Planet will live its life?

AUGUST 4th UPDATE: REAPER (free planet #3) novel is on the blink while I'm busily writing KUMIKO (war world #3) novel. The Free Planet narrative and the War World narrative are kinda connected, or have become connected over the final stages of their respective trilogies. Is it a Free Planet or is it a War World? I like that it's happened this way, as it's less convoluted than if I'd planned a dual-trilogy series from the get-go.

Yesterday morning, during a lovely 9 mile jog in the woods and along the river, I received (from the ether) a generous wedge of narrative resolution to add to the Crystalline/Organic thrust of the Reaper arc, just free stuff wedged into the waking dream that is my writing process.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-89211532798316621912014-05-19T20:09:00.000+01:002014-05-19T20:09:03.734+01:00Gene Brewer - author of K-PAX - 5***** review for Liberator

here's a FIVE STAR review of my latest Free Planet novel LIBERATOR, from one of my favourite authors Gene Brewer (K-PAX series):

Mike Philbin's Liberator does more than continue where Custodian (Book I of the Free Planet series) left off. By this time the premise is picking up more steam, the characters have become more real, the storyline more accessible, the indictment of our social and political norms more scathing. Mr. Philbin's wordplay is truly striking and original. The images stick with you. There are moments of tongue-in-cheek humor and his wit is increasingly biting. This is an author who gets better with every book. He is someone to watch. [LIBERATOR on Amazon]

Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-9514424639301306022014-03-25T16:21:00.003Z2014-11-10T09:27:06.100Znew FREE PLANET trilogy cover?

don't ask me if this is for real or anything, there's every possibility I'm deluding myself about my ability to finish book three in the free planet series and I'm not totally convinced this idea is any good yet, but...

I've just been playing around with the idea of bringing out (or selling on to another publisher) the idea of the FREE PLANET trilogy, as one book. The three separate parts of the proposed book would sport the names of the separate novels Custodian (2013), Liberator (2014) and Reaper (2015).

FREE PLANET was always envisioned as 'one book' but then it got a little more involved, became a second, then third book (potentially) so I thought, "Maybe this is the time to show you what I've been working on as a cover idea for such a trilogy," were it a) possible or b) attractive to publishers.

It'd be about 80,000 + 60,000 + 60,000 = 200,000 words as a book, which is quite a wedge of words. Just a thought... back soon.

APRIL 13th UPDATE: for those of you going, "Where did the updates on Reaper (free planet #3) go?" fear not, I am still, technically, working on it. It is still destined to be released in 2015. Watcher (the project I'm writing at the same time) is dominating my thoughts right now, is all. As you'll see from the new War World TRILOGY cover, it's Free Planet's real competition, and I'm not sure which'll win, yet.

Reaper has not been put on the back burner, in fact I'm going to make myself write some more of it right now to push the book past the 20,000 word mark also. Yeah, maybe that'll do it. I'll try to make myself write more Reaper before I allow myself to write more Watcher. In reality, I'll probably finish Watcher first.

"Who watches the watchers?" indeed.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-62369764754908264582014-02-22T08:12:00.002Z2014-06-30T14:07:10.397+01:00Reaper FP#3 will be twenty chapters, how do I know?

I know because I just adapted the 2,000 words short story of 'what happened to the hunted-to-exhaustion Janey and Timmy' (you'll remember tham from the tail end of Liberator FP#2, if you read it) for use as a structural device throughout the novel.

It's done already. It's in the can. Finito.

I decided to split this 2,000 word Oral History of Timmy Brecke into chapter starts, each paragraph of this 'short story' precedes the action of each chapter of the yet-to-be-written novel. I sensed that (as it was 2,000 words) it would be nice if it came to about TWENTY CHAPTER beginnings, hundred words a-piece.

And it did. Exactly twenty paragraphs. 20 chapters.

I was very surprised by that, and it felt like 'some kind of sign'. That means I can write Reaper in chunks of 4,000 words giving me a novel total for FP#3 of anywhere around the 80,000 words mark. We all know my 'guesstimations' aren't always reliable and we all know that whimsy, inspiration and good old randomness can insinutate its way into my novel writing process but there it is. Day of the Reaper is officialy GO, GO, GO and there's lots to say about 'why Free Planet took four years' to really gets its arse in gear. Why the world nearly had to end, twice. And why you'll shit your pants when you see who was behind what. There really were so many counter/parallel FPS simulators going at the same time, and the PPI or PATENT PROTECTION INITIATIVE was very well funded by T.H.E.Y. i.e. You The People, so no fucking surprise there then.

We'll find out what happened to Timmy and Janey, we'll see if this near-ruined homeworld eventually became a Free Planet.

FOUR MONTHS LATER UPDATE: as the War World series and the Free Planet series have organically intertwined in the last year or so, Reaper (free planet #3) will be probably remain on hold until some narrative issues in Kumiko (war world #3) have been ironed out. Reaper is due to be finished, then, some time AFTER Kumiko has finished.

Or at least until the threads and connections between the parallel projects have been finalised, not necessarily 'set in stone'. Oh, set in stone, Mike, I like that. SET IN STONE.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-35272920721968862372014-02-07T21:05:00.002Z2014-07-30T08:13:47.505+01:00Free Planet 3 - REAPER - 2014 cover concept

don't ask me why I'm releasing this visual interpretation of the Free Planet 3 narrative so early. I say 'visual interpretation', as are most covers, but it's not 'really' what REAPER'll be about. I mean it's not set in space, it's not a Space Opera and no invading alien presence is due. At least there's no plan for such yet.

Though I have a really good idea where this third Free Planet novel may go, I haven't started to work on 'Reaper' yet. In fact, I don't intend to for another maybe six months or more as my main focus this season will be the STALKER'S GUIDE TO... novel.

"Why not make the third novel in the Free Planet series take place all on the same day," the day when it all happens. The day Free Planet 4 Real is born.

It's still gonna contain the same narrative elements I'd always intended to include, but I'll cram it all into one day. Dawn to Dusk, eight months after the events in Liberator. Have it a non-stop marathon of intense emotional and physical drama. Wear down the reader as it'll undoubtedly wear down the characters.

This will be the day when the old (Commercialised (Consumerist (Corporate))) world ends and a new one begins. This will be the day when mankind finally begins to see the 'great gift he's been bequeathed' and the thing he nearly ruined with his Quest for Profit/Asset/Conquest.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-39017449186379626682014-01-29T13:53:00.000Z2014-02-09T20:39:05.558ZFree Planet #2 novel: LIBERATOR - available now - everywhere!

click to buy paperback

Not everything that appeared to happen during the Custodian Liberation happened as a result of Free Planet. There was another parallel drill going. As there always is in the need to know compartmentalised military game. It's just the way it is. Deal with that, and mankind can move on to the next level of politico-military tactician Zbigniew Brzezinsky's Grand Chess Game.

Custodian (the first novel in the Free Planet series) showed how a group of Oxford University rebels could rework The Industry to their advantage, to YOUR ADVANTAGE. But was the resulting 'free planet' really all it pretended to be? Is there another (parallel) free planet simulation being run? A military drill? Real 'terror'?

Liberator (the next novel in the Free Planet series) shows what really went on FOUR YEARS AGO when you thought a 'brave rebel world' of Diversities, Floating Homes and Freed Humanity were taking place. In this novel you'll discover THE REAL REASON why 'free planet' happened.

And you're not going to like what you find!

Oh, and in case you haven't seen it before, here's the book trailer for Free Planet #1 novel: CUSTODIAN

yes, I used the same incidental music for both book trailers, uniformity of purpose. Sir, yes, sir.

Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-10985153922529871392014-01-27T11:21:00.000Z2014-02-23T20:51:31.952ZNo, the Free Planet series isn't based on the Star Wars series...

here comes the Black Tsunami...

STAR WARS

In A New Hope, the Empire is trounced.

In Empire Strikes Back, the Rebellion is trounced.

In Return, the Jedi return... hmm.

FREE PLANET

In Custodian, the Indusry is trounced.

In Liberator, the Military reveal their hand.

In Reaper, we're talking about THE BROKEN CHAIN of the Black Tsunami.

Just thought I'd share that observation with you.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-7508004764776575852014-01-06T19:17:00.002Z2014-02-24T10:28:02.831ZLIBERATOR FPS2 - 69,000 words - first draft complete.

published 2013

Well, I didn't expect that to happen like that...

There I was, writing away, somewhere close to the 66,000 words mark. I had the two final chapters to flesh out, still. But I also had 'four assigned alternating military/civilian chapter slots' to fill before I got there. And one more part-written chapter before that lot.

Then suddenly, I realised, "It's done."

I deleted those four empty chapter slots, lifted my hands from the keyboard, then shared the news with a good friend of mine, "It's done," I grinned. And she said what a good doggy I was. Patted me on the head while my inner tail wagged and my tongue lolled out. I'm such a good doggy woggy. I am, heh heh heh.

published 2014

LIBERATOR's looking like it's gonna be about 69,000 words or so. It was written in four months in longhand into two notebooks, like my War World 2013 summer novel TANDEM. Plus ending LIBERATOR here leaves all the afore-planned intrigue and 'denoument' for the third and final part in the Free Planet trilogy, REAPER, to come. What I mean by this is 'I didn't spoil the original book three premise' by trying to cram it all into book two like I nearly did at one point in the last few days.

I'm not even gonna bother with a teaser chapter from book three, as I did at the end of book one. I know where this story's going. And maybe you do too. I certainly don't feel like I need to convince you to come along with me for the ride of your life. You're in or you're not.

ONE HOUR LATER UPDATE: upon further consideration, moderate editing, furtive typing towards a resolution of 'the unfinished last chapter but two' and whatnot, "Yes, that's it," it's done. I'm now very close to a feeling of TOTALLY PSYCHED.

But that could also be down to the massive amounts of filter coffee I've quaffed all day on my mega-marathon writing binge devouring five or six different music CDs for this narrative-via-character finale, including classic Slipknot, Asalah, Camelspotting, Gorecki and Koto Music of Japan.

Twelve straight hours of non-stop typing. From eight o'clock this morning until now, eight o'clock at night. And still a few more paragraphs in me before the night's over.

SIX DAYS LATER UPDATE: I went back in and 'reworked' Civilian Chapter One and Military Chapter Four, which are technically 'imposter chapters' wedged into the beginning of the book once more than half the book had been written. I'd decided to properly cover 'the last four years' of Free Planet with these two summary chapters, before getting into the 'meat and two veg' of the second novel's narrative proper. So, my editor, who helped me finalise the Custodian (free planet #1) manuscript, has a copy of the first draft of this Liberator (free planet #2) manuscript, so let's see what her 'fresh pair of eyes' see.

EDITORIAL UPDATE: my editor's going through the Liberator manuscript with her fine-toothed comb and I've received some wonderful initial feedback, "It's a very strange book, by the way. Strange even for you!"

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-45932711229675254242014-01-04T21:56:00.005Z2014-01-06T16:31:50.369ZLIBERATOR FPS2 - 66,000 words - guest appearance by Jane Louxis

published 1989 by Creation Press

if any of you have been following my writing (career) over the last few decades, you'll realise that I have 'quite a thing' for one of my earliest creations, the deadly and dangerous white-skin red-haired Jane Louxis who cored out the central role of my 1989 Creation Press novel Red Hedz - that's a painting I did of her there years before the book came out.

Jane's gone under many names in different books I've penned (writing as Hertzan Chimera) and in several different short stories. I love this redhead character. She's my psycho-sexual muse and (as you can imagine) is quite horrific once she gets gets her pscho-sexual rod on.

As you'll have heard from this morning's rambling rantorial CRASHLANDING a scriptment of mine for the REAL 'ALIEN' PREQUEL i.e. not Ridley Scott's Prometheus (which seems to be a franchise reboot or (cough) parallel story to Alien) was banned from 'said forum' and it spurred my ire to resurrect the old enigma Jane Louxis. Jane likes to sexually murder maim kill, in the name of art. Can this sales-crippling knee-jerk reaction be termed Negative Inspiration?

I'll be adding several elements of that (reposted) 'crashlanding' scriptment into key scenes within the LIBERATOR universe, just for shits 'n' giggles. This isn't some petty inclusion (except that it might be) as I'd already added Jane Louxis into the death-bed testimony of an ealier Liberator witness and she's at the very end of the book. I won't say how, or why, obviously. But this morning's petty event allowed me to pour all my ire and anger and disdain and spite into the Jane Louxis character's re-definition for FPS2, her Literary Resurrection after years in the forehead-popped ether floating about looking for a purpose. We find out why Jane's the way she is. We find out about the plethora of intel-invented stories that have supported and widely spread her legend throughout the G3 or Global Gambling Game arena. We find out why she's so feared among the gambling cognoscenti.

We don't even know if Jane's her real name or whether her kind have actually consorted with Satan. Yes, book two of the Free Planet trilogy is VERY STRANGE. And I can't work out whether this constant reversion to The Lake of Psycho-Sexual Effluent is helping or hindering my artistic liberation. Suffice to say, you're going to fucking love LIBERATOR, or I'm sending round the Bovver Boys.

CURRENT RUNNING TOTAL: 66,000 words, and rising fast (in fact, I've updated the running total THREE TIMES since this post was written last night). Liberator is now on what is known in horse racing circles as its Home Stretch. God bless private non-disclosure-agreement censorship on the 'net, and aggravated ire-generation. This is the future of mankind, BANNED TO DEATH.

Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-78293618144164158832013-12-24T07:29:00.000Z2014-01-16T06:40:05.184ZLIBERATOR FPS2 - Xmas Day Chapters - 58,000 words running total
while the book is still at 50,000 words, there are two chapters that have been 'introduced' into the narrative and given their 'chaptorial' place withing the 40-chapter index but are stubbornly resisting being written.

It's a 'me' thing, I've just been ... reluctant to lay the brickwork, point the gaps.

Both chapters deal with The Mighty Quins: the eponymous chapter is a 'four years ago' chapter showing how the quins became involved in the LIBERATOR narrative, the other chapter Safari (which comes directly before it) shows how these children are hunted down for their usefulness by the Black Pentagon leading towards the latter part of the book.

New titles, headings and positions for you, eh? Excited?

DECEMBER 25th AFTERNOON UPDATE: hmm, well, that didn't go 'exactly' as I 'might have planned' but the two missing chapters (mentioned above) have been written over the course of a single play through of Riuchi Sakamoto's THREE. I'm wondering if I can even write LIBERATOR without having his music playing in the background. It's like some sort of intellectuo-narrative free-forming talisman that my flying fingers can't do without. This book.

Running total: currently 54,000 words. And I don't feel I'm any closer to 'really' understanding how LIBERATOR got here or where it might go during its pre-amble towards the final chapter(s) which have already been written out. So many loose ends right now, and I'm not convinced it's worth being too tidy about how many of them are tied off. A little blood is a good thing in an action adventure, right? Except this shit is 'narrative blood' and that might erk the reader ... like I care.

DECEMBER 29th UPDATE: and having crashed headlong into a bit of a dead end, I popped out the other side within Cloud City. A crackin' scene, lots of revelations. Lots of tied off ends. Lots of new narrative to explore. 58,000 words is the current running total. 10,000 or so to go, I guess. Where to start REAPER FPS3. Who knows?
Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-28047866513046083012013-12-12T21:15:00.002Z2014-01-15T19:08:22.803ZLiberator FP2 novel - 50,000 words - subtle restructuring, new chapters, motoring along...technically, I'm 45,000 words in.

A couple of the later chapters are still to type in from notebook, but I'm confident they'll amount to about 2,000 words per chapter.

I've gone back in and ADDED two earlier chapters #2 and #3 so that the whole Free Planet world (four years after Custodian) is fully fleshed out, so that the reader has no misconceptions that this really is a TOTALLY DIFFERENT world to the one the Corporations nearly ruined.

Kinda really enjoying this book still; as you can see from the racing word count, it's becoming quite an obsession.

TEN DAYS LATER UPDATE: this morning, I added another two chapters, slotted them into positions 3 and 4 in the 40-chapter index. Just to add another layer of understanding (for me as much as) for the reader. This way we both get to understand what's gone on, what's about to happen, and why I'll stab that back of both of us with LIBERATOR FPS book #2 revelations. The book's anywhere near 50,000 words or so (I haven't been keeping track over the last few hours), or it will be once I fold in that 'still not typed in' stuff. I have the notebooks open in front of me for the 'afternoon sessions'.

EVENING UPDATE: yeah, final tally came to one hundred and twenty words under 50,000 at the end of today's manic session. There are still a couple chapters that need content, so it's technically over that Magic 50 already. Just gotta type in the rest.

I'm really at my most Hertzan Chimera-like this novel, my most Loki-like, of dirty old bastardness. And lovin' the gruesome trip, man.Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-41357297723392515012013-12-08T11:44:00.000Z2014-01-21T16:56:44.451ZLiberator FP2 novel - 35,500 words - 2014 cover image

just hammered through the 35,500 words first-draft mark of Liberator (free planet novel #2) and I'm now MORE CONVINCED THAN EVER where this trilogy's going and how and when and why it'll suicidally crashland into Planet #3, Reaper in 2015.

Oh, yes, and that is a first look at the new cover design for LIBERATOR: free planet #2 (this cover's far more relevant to the extreme horror content of the book than the stand-in design that was 'borrowing' a non-copyright image from off the net).

I'm not necessarily a big fan of draggin shit out for the sake of a series, so I've upgraded one or two ideas from Book 3 to happen in Book 2 ... I did this not because I've run out of ideas (yet) for Liberator FP2 but because I have ADDITIONAL ideas for Reaper FP3, and it'll make loads more sense when you read what I did and why, some years later when I reveal the randomness of my writing process, the Channeling of Narrative via Character.

Trust me, I'm a Machievellian.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-21747922551223464232013-11-29T20:32:00.003Z2013-12-08T11:44:18.941ZLiberator FP2 - brought to you by - Ruichi Sakamoto's THREE

quick post: the first 31,000 words of the Liberator Free Planet novel #2 has been brought to you in assocation with the Ruichi Sakamoto CD "Three". I've been replaying this inspirational CD every single time I've been typing in from the notebook(s). Crackin' stuff.

Ruichi Sakamoto is the ex-keyboardist of 80's goth band Japan, and Three is his solo album dealing with his instrumental and audio film score work such as Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (the Bowie film), Seven Samurai and The Last Emperor. Here's a track list:

1. Happy End
2. The Last Emperor
3. Bibo No Aozora
4. High Heels
5. Seven Samurai
6. A Flower is not a Flower
7. Still life in A
8. Nostalgia
9. Tango
10. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
11. Ichimei (Harakiri - Death of a Samurai)
12. Tamago 2004
13. Parolibre

Basically, PROPER RECOMMENDED writing accompaniment. I hope my words in this novel do his pianoing justice.

TWO DAYS LATER UPDATE: I haven't read a novel for weeks while I've been obsessed with Liberator FP2 but it arrived, David Baldacci's The Hit (book two of the Will Robie government assassin series), so I'll not be writing for a while. I'm in reading mode, hundred pages into the book, and lovingn it. I realised I don't like David Baldacci's presidential/detective books, but I 'love' his Robie series. It's probably because Robie works 'outside the law' or 'outside common understanding' of the way the world really works. It's a sick (amoral (corporate (war))) place, and one that's perfect for novelisation.

WEEK LATER UPDATE: The Hit was great, can't wait for book three. Currently, I'm reading "The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter" by Malcolm Mackay while still writing the Liberator FP2 novel. I'll obviously do another update on FP2 soon, so stay tuned.Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-28879014272629130582013-11-26T21:48:00.000Z2014-01-29T19:18:47.257ZLiberator FP2 novel - 28,000 words - Military vs Civilian
so... I've re-assessed how many words Liberator currently is, by discounting the couple of pages of rough notes at the back of the book, and it comes to 26,000 words. They'll all get written up in full anyway, so I'll add the totals up without them.

More important than that, I've finally resolved a big quandary I was having with the first part of the book. Basically, I fell in love with one of the side characters and started to fully flesh out their story. I was going to do this anyway, but in a less linear way. The book was in danger of just becoming 'that character's story' from A to B. And I didn't want this book to be just that.

So, I drew some spidery diagrams of the narrative elements I'd come up with so far, then went in and listed the most important threads of narrative direction, then decided that the alternating-chapter structure used in Custodian FP1 (namely, CUSTODIAN vs YOU THE PEOPLE) had to be replicated/emulated in this second novel as cleanly as possible. And analysing all the possibilities of who has allegiance to whom or what the decision has been made.

Liberator FP2 will be split between MILITARY and CIVILIAN, alternating chapters, this way I can follow my main-thread obsessed-with character-progression and also address the issue of the 'four years previously' (shit you were never told, about 'this iteration' of a free planet) that I'd intended to examine this time out. I've already re-organised the entire book thus far written into this split structure up to and including Chapter 17. Hopefully, this has been the right decision. I think I have enough psy-ops revelation in here to support such a strong structural adjustment.

TWO DAYS LATER UPDATE: I had the fear... it only lasted for a few minutes, but it was intense. I had the fear that reaching the end of the first notebook would exhaust my creative urge to finish this second Free Planet novel. But "No!" not at all, the second notebook inspired a classic outpouring of character-driven wordage from one of the stars of Custodian FP1 who never really got to say her piece. You'll like this, and it ties into the four years ago military sample that's at the back of Custodian. You know, if you bought it.
Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-3078304662606474312013-11-22T18:41:00.000Z2014-01-29T19:19:04.205ZLiberator FP2 novel - 25,000 words - plus I know where the narrative is going, yay!

thanks to my (misplaced at the time?) faith in the simple act of 'writing to character', I now have an absolutely solid and foundationed reason WHY for the Liberator FP2 book. I'm writing it in long-hand again, just like Tandem and I'm at the end of notebook one, which means I technically have another two notebooks of that length, shape and style to go.

Twenty-five thousand words per notebook would give me an estimated novel of 66-75,000 words, more or less, depending on how the novel goes. And I'd be more than happy within that range. How did I do it? How did I find my story?

I simply kept asking the twelve or thirteen characters I've allowed to vent their spleen, "What's the story?" kept demanding an answer to this question of my invented characters as I gave them a platform for their thoughts.

But what's the story, Mike?

Well, you'll have to wait, won't you. Wait until the book's finished and available to read. But be assured it's NOTHING LIKE YOU'D HAVE IMAGINED where the second part a Free Planet trilogy (that began with Custodian) might have gone. I've allowed the characters to take this story into an insane place - as it had to for such a 'free reign' writing engagement. I'm actually getting excited that this story will actually seem like I meant it that way.

But it wasn't me. It was the characters. Writing the reason for the narrative that slices them open and lays their 'raison d'etre' all over the floor.

DAY LATER UPDATE: of course, things are moving on a pace and, as you'll see from the URL for this post, it was only very recently a 23,000 words update. It's now at the 25, 000 words and interest is still rising. Unfortunately it's rising in ONE SPECIFIC BRANCH of the three-branch narrative I'd hoped this book be. So I'm fully exploring the one aspect of the story that's really taken my affection (can't help it) while the other two planned aspects are being hinted at in sporadic chapters here and there but not expanded on to the degree of detail.

Of course, I'm now not sure what I'll do. Where the break-off point, where the fold-in point (or points) will occur. I keep wanting to move the already done 2nd 3rd branch chapters to later in the book but that would leave it too linear as an opening. I could 'easily' ABANDON this initial-interest aspect where it's at NOW until later in the novel, then come back (after 2nd 3rd branch expansion) and show where the other two aspects affected it. Only more writing-to-character will testify to either solution. There may, of course, be more than one solution. Something 'character' hasn't hinted at yet. Kinda scary but kinda interesting is the writing process, for me.

:)
Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-4204713179888010002013-11-17T10:23:00.002Z2014-01-29T19:19:22.104ZLiberator FP2 - 17,000 words and counting...
well, it's still racing on aplenty.

Since my last update (four days ago @ 11,000 words) the book has now risen to 17,500 words, as of this afternoon. If you're in (Oxford) town centre and you wanna say "Hi!" in a faux-American accent, just drop by the Calendar Club stall in the Clarendon Centre and do so. I'm very approachable and don't bite, unless otherwise directed.

As of this week's narrative/character investigation, I realise that the cover (while relating to 'organic metamorphosis of the narrative' via its characters) actually relates to another uber-important inter-stellar twin-like union expressed elsewhere in the story.

Anyway, intrigued yet? Time for an exclusive (first draft) excerpt yet?

Hmm, here goes:

It'll be my fourth birthday, soon. Me and Sally and this Free Planet. We're all three of us intimately linked by the moment of our births. We're a trio of rowdy teenagers not knowing what to be yet. How to act. Who to look up to. To respect. To protect. It's all up in the air.

And four years isn't very long to cram in all the social accidents that amount to one's upbringing. Here on Free Planet we've always had to 'learn on the fly'.

I can't believe it's all gone so fast. One minute me and Sal, that's my non-identical twin sister, were hatching out of a massive owl egg. The next moment Puberty is upon us both and the whole world looks, smells, tastes, feels different. The wants of youth got biologically re-prioritised in the blink of an eye and our dad's considering, actually Considering, enrolling me and Sal in the Arranged Marriage Market so we can have wives/husbands chosen for us by the Free Planet housing system. That's the way it's done now, it's all left to the sniffing abilities of the communal Floating Home Diversities that flutter and flap and sing like bees across the liberated sky like protein floating in the human eye.

Most of my peers, and there aren't that many of us, aren't sure if they want to be part of some continued biological experiment 'for the good of free planet'.

"Isn't that right, Sal?"

"Not many of us, Tim."

"You said it, girl," there's not that many of us hybrid originals, born of this free planet. Like someone thought it would be a bad idea to have a go at making more of us once we hatched. I mean, it's not even that. Don't they know? Haven't they even at least got suspicious that their kind can interbreed? The re-wilded? Can't they scent it? Don't they have some sort of animalistic detectors up their snouts and beaks that'll make this truth transparent to them?

Or are they afraid of committing a bestial act under the gaze of the Flockers? Is that how 'mating among their kind' might be judged? Like bestiality? Like some sort of original sin?

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-17659887076153085162013-11-08T21:49:00.000Z2014-01-29T19:19:54.116ZLiberator - I think I'm just going to have to 'write the fucking thing'

I have all these wild and wacky ideas for where Free Planet #2: LIBERATOR 'could go' and I'm just getting nowhere with it. It's a stalled project that's looking too far up its own righteous anus to be anything worth reading or writing.

I think I either a) have to forget it and just write something else entirely different or b) just forget all this 'scripting shit' and take the fucking bull by the horns and JUST DO IT, and screw your gay trademark claim against my use of three words. Just screw it.

There's no other way to face what will be an insanely obscure lifestyle, four years after the Free Planet simulation has been set in motion by the Morans That Be. Only the stream-of-unconsciousness totally-liberated-writing-mind approach will work with this book.

Literally, there'll be nothing like it ... until it happens ... so why worry about 'getting it right' or making it 'enjoyable for the reader'. It's gonna have kinks. It's gonna have issues. Hell, the whole planet's gonna be a real-life 'learning experience' so why shouldn't the book about it also be?

So, just write the fucking thing and publish it became the simple answer. It's not that hard. It's just words making sentences making scenes making chapters wrapped round characters on missions. I'll leave all the ruptured artery suturing for Free Planet #3: Reaper.

DAY LATER UPDATE: well, it worked. I have the first real chapter in the first real writing of the first real draft of the first real.... where was I? Oh, yes, the JUST WRITE IT ethos panned out. Exculpatory gold. And by that I mean, once I'd decided to TOTALLY GIVE MYSELF TO THE WRITING OF LIBERATOR the words came flooding out. Fourteen hundred words of it, today.

I don't need no stinking script. I just need to allow the old Hertzan Chimera writing machine to take the bull by the fucking horns and get on with it. I already had a list of characters to write about, and that's been listed out now, twelve characters. Job's basically writing itself.

ANOTHER DAY LATER UPDATE: man, this is easy as fuck. I knew it would be. Once I'd made the decision to just write the effin' thing. Ah, what a delight, what a joy, what a release. I'm back, I tells ya, Hertzie's back. And with a vengeance.

So, opening chapter's the military Free Planet sim goes live chapter that's at the end of the Custodian novel FP1. Second chapter's an insight into the Floating Homes that are made from twelve rutting party goers halfway through book one. Third chapters a reet good rough-up in the form of the Borstal Boys or Flockers..

FLOCKERS!

..the literally fascist free planet police statesmen who can do whatever the fcuk they want to ANYONE WHO GETS THE WRONG IDEA or thinks about taking the piss out of the Free Planet non-profit ideal of Creativity, Passion and Kinship. Anyone dares do owt, they gets their arse raped right proper. I've been stuck on narrative/plotholeriddling island for the last few months thinking too hard about where this middle book might go. Stuck on 6,000 words or so. I know where book three's going, so no worries. Now I'm on 9,500 words and I'm back in the writing seat, where I always have the most fun. Hacking away at the sweating coal face.

Chapter four's for tomorrow, in the notebook, long hand ... I'm not which, of the twelve chapter/characters I've decided to concentrate on for FP2: Liberator, it'll be yet. But I'll know when I start writing it. I'll probably get a message on the way in to work. A transitionary book of insights. Insights. Nowt wrong wi that for the second book of a planned trilogy, eh?

13TH NOV UPDATE: currently at 11,500 words and still going... I rewrote an entire chapter yesterday (about one of the young survivors of the Custodian novel) that's less concerned with 'narrative' and more concerned with 'character'. And it's working. There'll be another chapter today, possibly the dad, the role taken by you-second-person in Custodian. Either him or Timi, we all remember Timi the re-wilded dinosaur-dog, don't we?
Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-60875342336082782202013-10-20T10:17:00.004+01:002014-01-15T19:07:04.782ZLiberator - free planet #2 - back on track
after a brief (two months) distraction with the TANDEM (war world) novel project, I've picked up the reins of the LIBERATOR (free planet #2) novel and started to 'really see' where such a Natural Lottery-derived world might take humanity. Again, like Custodian, it's a split narrative novel. Where that was shared between You The People and The Custodians, this time out it'll be the conflicting viewpoints of We The People and The Monsters from Hell.

Four years since the events of Custodian (free planet #1) novel, the world is a radically different place and the quest for 'freedom' is blazing along apace. I'm currently 6,500 words into the doc version and I'm not sure whether I should invest in another mega-notebook, a-la-Tandem writing month, while I'm based in Oxford's Clarendon Centre helping out a friend with a spot of retail work for the saison de Noel and get the guts of this thing spooling nicely in my down time.

It'll not be a pretty hippy kumbaya novel -- oh, no sir no -- of that you can be assured.

The EMPIRE STRIKES BACK analogy might be worth wheeling out at this point. What mankind thought was his victory or his 'right to freedom' or his 'free planet' might not have been exactly how this particular war was lost or won. There might be a more sinister Corporate War narrative afoot that neither You The People nor The Custodians were party to. Something the other two parties might have to learn of the hard way, as turmoil starts to set in and Free Planet begins to rot from the feet up.

The CORPORATE WAR OFFICE might yet get its revenge...Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-43217373114787245672013-08-29T08:00:00.000+01:002013-08-29T13:17:18.360+01:00Custodian - Amazon reader review - Gene Brewer, author of K-PAXCustodian received a reader review from non other than the writer of K-PAX, Gene Brewer. He had warned me up front that it wasn't going to be a totally positive review, and he did go into his thoughts on that. But most importantly, he was very complimentary of the writing and 'couldn't stop turning the pages':

Mike Philbin's new novel isn't really a novel. There isn't much plot or development--most chapters are a lot like the ones that came before. Whatever it is, however, I kept turning the pages. Some of the images are astonishing, all are powerful, and there are moments of good humor. Mr. Philbin is a good writer, and his choice of words and syntax are sometimes striking. More importantly, the book is a scathing indictment of the socio-economic-religious culture we have become. It sticks with you long after you've finished it. Well worth the read.

Excellent.Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-22846790261827721032013-08-21T08:44:00.006+01:002013-08-21T08:44:44.949+01:00Custodian - first five star customer review - Amazon reader GiggsyJust back off my European hols (where I spent four weeks 'totally off the grid' doing nothing but relaxing and writing a new novel called Tandem) and this lovely FIVE STAR customer review of my Free Planet #1 novel Custodian is there on Amazon, from reader Giggsy:

Mike Philbin is back with another anti-corporate tale, another novel where he immerses you, the reader, into the book as a character. And he's getting good at it.

This is likely his strongest work to date.

His dystopian near-future seems so extreme at times, so odd, and so far away. And yet when you realize he's blending non-fiction (aka "The Truth") in with the fiction, you begin to realize just how near we are to losing our planet. He offers an unique presentation of his ideas that doesn't have boring economics theory, generic propaganda, or political lies.

Nice, thanks!Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-4597223551924510312013-07-19T07:48:00.001+01:002013-07-19T07:51:44.251+01:00The Oxford Times - Local Author slot - Mike Philbin's Custodian novel

the Oxford Times has just featured Mike Philbin's new novel CUSTODIAN (Free Planet¹) in their online Local Author slot - click the above image to read the editorial or click the novel title to purchase direct.

Mike Philbinhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-60700165613159112732013-07-01T06:39:00.002+01:002013-07-01T06:39:33.815+01:00The Research Notes of Miss Asalah Al Faghorithis is a 100-page Kindle publication that supplements events in the recently published Custodian (free planet #1) novel.

We meet central character Asalah Al Faghori who not only creates, inspires and manages the Custodian Liberation but is also the genetically enhanced host of the Natural Lottery show that infiltrates the GES or Global Evertainment System.

This digital diary allows us to witness her increasingly warped logical and frighteningly academic solution to the prison-world insanity of what she sees as the Corporate War Machine's ruination of her once-beautiful home world. We see how she comes to understand that only a 'rewilded' world, a 'de-consumerised' world, a 'jail broken' world can save mankind, as a supposed-Custodian race.

The owl-based cover refers back to the Messianic flavour of my 2008 novel Planet of the Owls but also alludes to the Moloch-worshipping i.e. Bohemian Grove's Skull & Bones, ritual symbology that will only really make its presence felt in Liberator (free planet #2) when it's all too late for our young heroine to attempt to rectify.Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-56958050377137260352013-06-14T19:44:00.000+01:002014-01-29T19:20:54.763ZFree Planet¹ novel CUSTODIAN - published - available in Amazon Kindle, ebook and paperback formats

today, Friday the 14th June 2013, Free Planet¹ CUSTODIAN has been published on Amazon Kindle (buy now), various other ebook formats (buy now) and paperback format (buy now). Many thanks to (my editor, format guru and BFGS co-writer) Alex Severin who ensured that this 82,000 words novel was the best it could be.

What's Free Planet¹ CUSTODIAN about?

A group of Oxford University's finest minds, the eponymous Custodians, offer mankind a technological 'get out of jail free card' enabling them to slip from under the yoke of Corporate Slavery to THE INDUSTRY.

Radical elements within the student body engage themselves in the Patent Wars and start a TV show called Natural Lottery that broadcasts to the global Evertainment System, every night, 7-9 p.m., all channels, full spectrum dominance.

You are taken through a physical relocation of your corporate arm of The Industry from Dusseldorf to Oxford. You are 'made redundant' in the most spectacular public fashion and your world starts to (literally) crumble, or pixellate, around you.

Scene from the Opening Chapter:

Asalah Al Faghori will die tonight and we shall share the moment of her passing so that she can fulfill her promise of a brand-new future so far denied the inhabitants of this cruelly commercial world.

 She will die so that you the people can understand Creativity.

 She will die so that you the people can translate Passion.

 She will die so that you the people can share Kinship.

 She's not going to die strapped to a chair receiving four hundred stab wounds from some 'lunatic home invader' like unlucky French biochemists. She's not going to be discovered in some GCHQ safe house, zipped into a locked pink sports bag, decomposed well beyond the few days since her demise. She's not going to be discovered with her wrists slit in the wrong way, undigested paracetamol in her gut and no blood near her corpse in the woods.

And from a Later Chapter:

1) You have to clear a human turd off your desk. Not a toy one. Not some practical joke piece of moulded plastic. This is a real human turd. Someone would have had to squat down, right there on your desk before you got in, to lay this length of steaming brown pipe. You can even see where the anus muscle has crimped off the tail of it, begging like a clever puppy, its front-paw in the air.

2) The email flag pops up cheerily and it's a collection for your funeral. Enough money has already been pledged to buy quite a nice casket. Seriously, that is not right.

Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-1904834259724655725.post-87061780411737944072013-06-08T20:05:00.002+01:002013-06-11T10:56:16.874+01:00Welcome to the Goodreads crowd...

if you've arrived here via the Event Invitation on Goodreads, welcome.

Make yourself at home. The wait is almost over. Custodian is available soon in ebook, Kindle and paperback. As you'll know, I've already set up the CUSTODIAN page on Goodreads, so that you can start Recommending it and mark it as To Read etc.

While you're here, on the Free Planet novel series blog, add yourselves to the Followers list for all the latest updates and features of this blog dedicated to the release of the Free Planet (Custodian¹ 2013, Liberator² 2014 and Reaper³ 2015) novel series.

If you can find any virtual wine, grab it before it's all supped. Otherwise, plug your Evertainment sockets in and assume the uploading position, corporate slaves.Mike Philbinhttp://email@example.com


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SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
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ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
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"In the past year we've seen a lot of stabilization of WebRTC. You can now use it in production with a far greater degree of certainty. A lot of the real developments in the past year have been in things like the data channel, which will enable a whole new type of application," explained Peter Dunkley, Technical Director at Acision, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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DevOps Summit 2015 New York, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The widespread success of cloud computing is driving the DevOps revolution in enterprise IT. Now as never before, development teams must communicate and collaborate in a dynamic, 24/7/365 environment. There is no time to wait for long development cycles that produce software that is obsolete at launch. DevOps may be disruptive, but it is essential.
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"People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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Nigeria has the largest economy in Africa, at more than US$500 billion, and ranks 23rd in the world. A recent re-evaluation of Nigeria's true economic size doubled the previous estimate, and brought it well ahead of South Africa, which is a member (unlike Nigeria) of the G20 club for political as well as economic reasons. Nigeria's economy can be said to be quite diverse from one point of view, but heavily dependent on oil and gas at the same time. Oil and natural gas account for about 15% of Nigera's overall economy, but traditionally represent more than 90% of the country's exports and as...
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The Internet of Things is a misnomer. That implies that everything is on the Internet, and that simply should not be - especially for things that are blurring the line between medical devices that stimulate like a pacemaker and quantified self-sensors like a pedometer or pulse tracker. The mesh of things that we manage must be segmented into zones of trust for sensing data, transmitting data, receiving command and control administrative changes, and peer-to-peer mesh messaging. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ryan Bagnulo, Solution Architect / Software Engineer at SOA Software, focused on desi...
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"At our booth we are showing how to provide trust in the Internet of Things. Trust is where everything starts to become secure and trustworthy. Now with the scaling of the Internet of Things it becomes an interesting question – I've heard numbers from 200 billion devices next year up to a trillion in the next 10 to 15 years," explained Johannes Lintzen, Vice President of Sales at Utimaco, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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If silent disco dance floors with touch sensitive 3D cubes, live projections, chiptunes, synths, and audio-visual interfaces designed with plenty of dials and knobs are your thing... you're gonna need a change of pants for this month's show.
Clay Lilliard - is one of the four founding members of COLLABnART (http://www.collabnart.org/), and is here to make you "fall in love with the process" of making and showcasing killer art. COLLABnART has put together numerous events featuring interactive installations, screenprinting, live mural painting, live sculpting, video art projection, acro yoga and glass blowing, to name a few.
Mike Behrman of TXchip - the sound tsunami AKA DJ battle champion "The Mysterious H" has returned to Austin and is here to geek out about interfacing old sound chips, making hybrid synths, and homebrewing hardware and software instruments for your ears' delight. Check out other TXchip artists and events at: http://txchipmusic.com/
Mickey Delp - the chief inventor behind Delptronics talks to us about his interface design showcased at Fantastic Arcade. Delp's customized surface for the arcade version of the video game Panoramical was the buzz of this year's event. The Alamo Drafthouse described the experience as "creating instant compositions of audio and form, mountains rising and boiling away, clouds making way for stars and black rain." http://delptronics.com/
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Who says hockey news is slow in August?
After a summer in which the New York Islanders made tons of noise off the ice with acquisitions and upgrades to the lineup, they continue to generate plenty of sound from the boardroom as well.
Vote of confidence for the coaching staff so they don't feel like lame ducks? Check.
Goaltending an issue? Trade for and sign Jaroslav Halak and sign Chad Johnson. Check.
Forward depth an issue last season after a rash of injuries? Sign Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin. Check.
Replace Peter Ruttgaizer on the pre and post game show with Shannon Hogan to usher in a new era before Barclays? Check. (although, admittedly, that was an MSG Network decision and really had nothing to do with the Islanders themselves).
But wait….there's more.
The sale. Islanders fans all around social media were waiting (impatiently) for Charles Wang to move on from owning the club for the past 15 years which has seen seemingly endless rebuilds and a failure to make an impact in the National Hockey League standings.
Frustrations were heightened to a fever pitch when it was found that Andrew Barroway, a hedge fund manager based out of Philadelphia, was in talks to acquire the club from Wang for the price of 420 million dollars then later backed out when he was alerted that there was a better offer and his 'handshake' deal with the current Islanders owner would not be honored.
Rumors of a second party were in question. Was Wang just playing Barroway to get him to up the ante to a new asking price of 548 million? After the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Clippers sold for 2 billion dollars, one could not fault Wang for seeing if he could maximize his return and cut into his alleged 20 million dollar per year losses.
In business, things change daily. It is a very fluid situation and anyone who has had experience in the business or financial markets knows that nothing is done until all the official paperwork is signed, sealed and delivered as the saying so appropriately goes.
As things would turn out, there was indeed a second group that came in with the higher offer than Wang sought.
Jonathan Ledecky, former co-owner of the Washington Capitals with Ted Leonsis and outlet mall conglomerate Scott Malkin were the pair that stepped up to the plate and paid the new bounty for what was once one of the most glorified franchises in hockey history.
Anyone who looks at the Forbes valuation of the Islanders (under 200 million) should understand that potential owners take a look at the future valuation of a franchise based on where they are going, and not where they have been.
With the roster re-shaped and Barclays Center (along with its guaranteed revenue stream) looming on the horizon, the reason Wang was able to get almost 5 times the Forbes valuation seems pretty clear.
The Islanders released this presser to members of the media after the sale was announced through New York beat writer Arthur Staple.
People who have been a fan of this team for a long time and have seen the rapid decline from Stanley Cup champion to mainstream media folly in combination with the new generation of Islanders fan who have lived through the successes of the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers deserve to have some good news thrown in their direction.
News that gives them hope outside of signings and trades. A message that the team is indeed moving forward in a new direction, one where the light at the end of the tunnel is very much on and shining bright and not just a dead end from which they have to turn around and go back to the station.
But there are still questions that will have to be answered over the coming months before the National Hockey League board of governors vote on the sale terms in December of this year.
With Charles Wang being in majority control for the next two years before the new group takes over, what kind of influence, if any, will they have in front office personnel decisions? The safe assumption is that most, if not all, of what we see at the top of the Islanders organizational food chain will remain untouched for the foreseeable future. Garth Snow will remain the team's general manager and Jack Capuano, albeit on a shorter leash than ever before, will be the head coach. But I would think they have to really put on a show to impress their future bosses to stay in those positions of power.
What impact will the Andrew Barroway lawsuit have on the sale? Many assume, and rightly so, that Barroway will not go quietly. He is a jaded former potential owner of the team and has taken steps to embarrass Wang with publicity that we all know Charles hates with a passion. He must know that a handshake deal is not going to hold much weight in court and will probably file an injunction, placing the finalizing of the deal in limbo until his litigation is dealt with. Does he accept the 10 million dollar 'back-out' payment from Wang and settle out of court? There is only one person who knows the answer to that question and it sure isn't me.
How does this affect the move to Barclays Center? Do the Islanders actually have a chance to re-locate or possibly even come back to Nassau Coliseum? My first thought on this is no and no. The National Hockey League has by-laws in place that prevent a new owner from moving the club to a new destination for seven years. Barclays Center has been dying for another tenant to pair with the New Jersey Nets and the Islanders failed negotiation with Long Island politics provided what seemed a perfect marriage. A guaranteed revenue stream does not hurt either. Brett Yomark and company will be paying 50 million assured for the life of the lease and with television contracts, New York is sitting pretty 70-80 million in the black before each season even starts.
As far as the Coliseum goes, I would doubt Kate Murray and her band of politicians would all of a sudden turn around and welcome the discussion. Especially with Bruce Ratner and his group's plans to build a smaller venue that might hold the American Hockey League affiliate now based in Bridgeport.
What do we really know about Ledecky and Malkin? Well, there has been hardly a comment from either with the news being so new and the Islanders themselves declining comment until the BOG approval. We can only go by past history and quotes from people who have worked with the pair. Dominik from Lighthouse Hockey had a fabulous summary of them in his column yesterday, which you can read right here. No sense in me re-hashing it when he did such a good job.
For now, nothing changes on the ice. Capuano has to lead his troops into training camp on September 18 and they all have to own the same mind-set they had on Monday. There will be a lot of decisions to be made in regards to line combinations, player cuts and possible trades to upgrade the defense.
With or without a trade on the blueline, this promises to be one of the most competitive camps the organization has ever seen.
Even when all the questions are answered and full terms of the sale are released to the media, the team will be defined as they should be.
Wins, losses and their final standings place in the Metropolitan Division.
The Stanley Cup does not care who owns the team. It presents itself as a shiny 34.5 pound reminder that the team with the most heart and soul gets privileged to a summer romance.


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Talks on debt, budget break down as Republicans pull out
Republicans on Thursday pulled out of bipartisan talks aimed at finding a way to raise the federal debt ceiling, triggering fresh fears of deadlock that could roil financial markets and kick the economy back into recession.
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The day in D.C.CIA hearings: Gen. David Petraeus said that if confirmed as CIA director, he would arrive alone at the agency's headquarters, leaving his Army uniform and extensive military staff behind, as he shifts to the head of the "silent service." Petraeus assured senators that he will not impose a military hierarchy at the CIA and will encourage a culture of constructive give and take. "I wanted this job," he told senators.
Pot ban: U.S. Reps. Barney Frank, D-Mass., and Ron Paul, R-Texas, introduced a bill that would remove marijuana from the list of federal controlled substances and cede to the states' enforcement of laws governing pot. The legislation would eliminate marijuana-specific penalties under federal law but would maintain a ban on transporting marijuana across state lines. It would allow individuals to grow and sell marijuana in states that make it legal. The bill has no chance of passing.
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WASHINGTON — Republicans on Thursday pulled out of bipartisan talks aimed at finding a way to raise the federal debt ceiling and cut trillions of dollars from future federal budget deficits, triggering fresh fears of deadlock that could roil financial markets and kick the economy back into recession.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said they wouldn't participate further because Democrats were pushing for higher taxes in any agreement.
The Republicans' withdrawal from the 7-week-old negotiations, chaired by Vice President Joseph Biden, staggered but didn't doom prospects for a deal.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have warned that failing to increase the nation's debt ceiling by Aug. 2 risks a U.S. default on debts, which could convulse financial markets and lead to renewed recession.
It's likely that President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, will become more personally involved in crafting a plan to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit by Aug. 2, the day that government borrowing authority is expected to run out, while dramatically cutting deficits.
"The goal of these talks was to report our findings back to our respective leaders. The next phase is in the hands of those leaders, who need to determine the scope of an agreement that can tackle the problem and attract bipartisan support," Biden said Thursday. "For now the talks are in abeyance as we await that guidance."
Experts are concerned there may not be enough time to get a detailed plan enacted that would satisfy nervous financial markets before the deadline.
"They really are playing with fire here. I don't know where it ends," said Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan budget-watchdog group.
The projected fiscal 2012 deficit is $1.5 trillion; over the next decade, the government is projected to amass nearly $7 trillion in deficits under current law.
The Biden group, which has been meeting regularly since May 5, was trying to iron out a detailed agreement that would cut deficits by at least $4 trillion over 10 years. It hoped to have some kind of blueprint by a week from Friday, giving lawmakers time to review the plan, offer changes, write up the deal and push it through Congress.
There were some glimmers of hope. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., a member of the bipartisan group, said "there's a lot of time" to reach an agreement.
Boehner put an important smidgen of distance between himself and Cantor, a doctrinaire conservative. Boehner was vague Thursday about just what would constitute a tax increase. Asked whether he was talking about increases in tax rates only or whether he also opposed closing loopholes, Boehner said, "We have been opposed to increasing tax rates."
He was asked whether he supported Cantor's decision.
"I understand his frustration," Boehner said. "I understand why he did what he did."
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SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The Dutch have taken their domination at the Olympic speedskating oval to a new level.
They aren't just hoarding most of the medals.
SOCHI, Russia (AP) — The Dutch have taken their domination at the Olympic speedskating oval to a new level.
They aren't just hoarding most of the medals.
Now, they're keeping it in the family.
Michel Mulder led another sweep by the Netherlands at Adler Arena on Monday, edging teammate Jan Smeekens by 12-thousanths of a second. Mulder's identical twin brother, Ronald, got the bronze.
"It is a dream, of course, to come here, me and my twin brother," Michel Mulder said. "It would be the perfect scenario to be 1-2, but together on the podium is amazing."
It was the first gold medal ever in the men's 500 for the Netherlands, which also became the first country to take the top three Olympic spots in the sport's most furious race.
Smeekens led after the first of two heats and the scoreboard initially showed a tie after he crossed the line in the second leg, based on hundredths of a second. After a bit more tabulating, Mulder had the gold with a total of 1 minute, 9.312 seconds — carried out to the thousandths of a second in the official results to show just how close it was.
The silver went to Smeekens in 1:09.324, while Ronald Mulder grabbed the bronze with the fastest run of the day, 34.49 in the second round to finish at 1:09.46.
"I didn't really realize what time I needed," Michel Mulder said. "In the past, I have lost races by one-hundredths a few times. It was so unbelievable."
Indeed, he lost to Mo Tae-bum by that margin at the 2012 world single-distance championships in Heerenveen.
"Now, Olympic champion," Mulder said.
Mo, the defending Olympic champion from South Korea, was fourth this time. The other medalists from the 2010 Winter Games took the next two spots: 2010 bronze winner Joji Kato of Japan was fifth, followed by countryman and reigning silver medalist Keiichiro Nagashima.
Smeekens led after the opening heat, putting up a time of 34.59 seconds to claim the coveted final race of the second round, which meant he would know the time to beat.
Turns out, he just missed.
When the scoreboard flashed the unofficial time, Smeekens slapped his coach's hand and rocked his head back in delight. But it's common in speedskating for the timing system to make slight adjustments, and the celebration was premature. Smeekens time was adjusted upward just enough to turn gold into silver.
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Well, here are some rocks, and no that is not my shadow it is the rock itself before you ask
I like how the sun caught the frost on these they were sparkled. I even like how the frost is visible in the foreground and the hill is in soft focus.
It was good to see you all again and I look forward to seeing the rest of the photos from the meet.
Thanks the Davie and Wilma for putting up with us all and for tidying up the kitchen.
Thanks for looking and for any comments.
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This looks as good as I thought it would. I like the inclusion of the out of focus hills, gives depth. What makes it for me though is the frost and the quality of light on the rocks.
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Early morning winter frost cannot be beaten, and with the low sun light blasting down on them, magical
Bet it would be chilly in the trossachs sitting on these rocks eating your cheese and pickle sarnie !!!! he he
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I took lots of shots of these rocks - may load another version soon for you Pete. Good to see you again too.
Dare say it would be very chilly there eating your lunch Davie.
I also like the hills in the distance I loved it there.
Thanks for all your comments and votes.
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