Welcome back, everyone! It’s past time for an update. I have three projects I’m working on now. I have 450 pages written on Intrepid Force III, but I had problems with it and took a break from it. I’m starting back now. It doesn’t really Read More …
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Tim Wise’s Studio Update
Hi, Everybody, I haven’t posted in a while and wanted to publish a few updates. I’ve got over 80,000 words written on the third Intrepid Force novel, but am considering splitting it into two overlapping books. I’m going to separate the pieces and see if Read More …
Invasion: The Backlot Tour
One of the places I invented for Intrepid Force: Invasion was Heritage Studios in Hollywood. According to the story, it was one of the old Hollywood studios that one of the character’s great-uncles had revitalized back in the early 20th century. The backlot set was Read More …
Invasion: Titan and Me
It was January 14, 2004, and I was doing final edits on Intrepid Force: Invasion when the Huygens module dropped through the cold, cloudy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. On my way home from Orlando, I bought a newspaper and pulled over at a Read More …
Invasion: A Day in History
October 30, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of a momentous event. In the year 1938, terrifying creatures from the planet Mars fled their own dying world to invade earth. Their first cylinder crashed on a farm in Drover’s Mill, New Jersey. After shooting down Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: The Star Wars Generation
I grew up in a great era for science fiction fans. The first Star Wars film came out just as I was finishing up the sixth grade. Movies were slow to reach the small Louisiana town where my family lived, but we visited cousins in Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: Southern Brew
I’m not the first writer or artist to be inspired by my region of the country. Anne Rice lived in New Orleans and set her vampire novels there. Charlaine Harris, whose Southern Vampire novels formed the basis for HBO’s True Blood series lived in Magnolia, Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: My Super Friends
It’s pretty obvious that one of the key inspirations to Intrepid Force was the comic books I was reading at the time, and I lived in a great time for comics. Most of DC’s iconic characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) were products of the Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: Dr. Blood and the State Fair
My second year of college, about a month after I’d finished that second draft of Intrepid, my friends and I took a trip to Shreveport, to the Louisiana State Fair. I wrote about it in my journal, so I still have details I’d have otherwise Read More …
Intrepid Force: A Strange Brew
I’m finishing up my “Three Weeks of Halloween” theme this week with the first book of my Intrepid Force series. Intrepid Force isn’t really a horror novel, but the first third takes place in October in New Orleans, and it does have gas lamps, old Read More …