Greetings ! This is my website, where I provide updates on my writing projects. This includes professional work(s) and fan-fiction based on existing franchises.
Hello World,
My new fan-fiction story Stargate: Dark Empire is now up on Fanfiction.net. Here is the link:
So, what is this story about ? Well:
Six months after the return of the Destiny Expedition, the Milky Way Galaxy has been plenty of changes for the better. But in the Pegasus Galaxy, a new threat is rising. Soon, Colonel Vale and the crew of Spera find themselves heading out to come to the aide of Atlantis and her allies...
And that's all for now,
Regards,
Ruben A. Hilbers
With Chess Games in Cairo in the edit phase, I have more free time on my hands. Which made me realize that there was something wrong with Stargate Nova Roma.
I finished the story of Destiny, I wrote new chapters in the story of the Milky Way galaxy. But where was the love for the Pegasus Galaxy ?
That said, Stargate Universe - of which Nova Roma was a continuation - was supposed to be a five season deal. And Nova Roma was pretty well wrapped up. So I decided to start a new fan-fiction story to deal with the fate of Atlantis and the Pegasus Galaxy.
That is the good news. The bad news is that I haven't posted anything on Fanfiction.net yet. I'm still working towards a nice cliffhanger to leave the first chunk of story on. Once I get there, I will post SEVERAL chapters and send out an update.
That's all for now.
Regards,
Ruben A. Hilbers
Hello World,
Okay, I have to admit that I am late. Two days late. The original plan was for this blog to be written on Sunday. But stuff happened and now it's Tuesday. Anyway, this weekend was nice and quiet. Which was fine with me. Because it gave me time to finish typing the last chunk of Chess Games in Cairo.
So, next is finding somebody to double-check the text for typo's, missing words and logic errors. At the same time, I'm looking for a picture for the cover. And finally, there is issue of the title...
Chess Games in Cairo is the working title, so I need to consider if I want to keep it or if I want to replay it. (And if I do, what the new title will be.) I'm also going to have to write the a blurb.
Finally, there is the issue of promotion and sales. Yeah, I'm not going to lie. I stink at promotion part and the sales are practically zero. But for anybody who suggests I should throw in the towel. *Points at picture* Enough said.
Anyway, that's all for today,
Ruben A. Hilbers
Hello World,
Yesterday, I realized something I've totally overlooked for years....my blog has is ninety-nine point nine percent text ! Which made me think...~Well, that's kind of boring.~
And at the same time, I needed to clean up my picture folder. So I decided to kill two birds with one stone and added some of the pictures to the blog entries before throwing them out. Which hopefully adds a bit more color to this blog.
And that's all for today, folks,
Ruben Hilbers
Edit: Also, this post puts me at 7 entries for 2021. Which tops the 6 that I wrote in 2020. Who knows ? Maybe one day I will pass the 27 record of 2018.
Hello World,
So, it turns out that if you're writing a blog, it's really hard to keep from repeating titles. When I wrote on 18 March, I was pretty sure that Bits and Pieces was the first entry with that title. But when I came to my blog today, I ran into an amount of doubt. So I checked the archives.
And there was an entry called Bits and Pieces from 2019. Fortunately, renaming is easy. So I turned that ancient post into Vol 1, with the recent ones becoming Vol .2 and Vol .3. Anyhoo, moving on....
Star Trek: Pathfinder
A Play-by-the-Email RPG based on Trek, Pathfinder has been zapping around the universe for years. Alas, the amount of emails/posts has been going down.
And now, the decision has been made to pull the plug. So, Goodbye Pathfinder.
Chess Games in Cairo
I finished writing Chess Games in Cairo. With emphasis on writing. I still have to type a chunk of the book into my computer. And after that come the pre-publishing phase: Finding somebody to check it for typos, writing the blurb and creating the cover.
So it will probably still be a while before it hits stores. But I'm getting closer. And pre-publishing phase gives me time to start researching and cooking up ideas for Vol 4 of the August Smith Adventures.
Any way, that's it for today.
Regards,
Ruben Hilbers
Alas, things are not going to well for Star Trek: Pathfinder. An old-fashioned Play-by-E-Mail RPG, this game tells the world about the adventures of the USS Pathfinder: A Vesta-class equipped with transwarp drive zipping around the Milky Way Galaxy in 2404.
Alas, the amount of post/e-mails was not spectacular and I only have an X-amount of time and creativity to go around. So, after some serious consideration, I decided to quit. And with that, moving on to....
Blog Updates
To begin with, I changed the skin of the Blog to give things a stir. I've also changed the Battlestar Xanthi link so it doesn't just link to the Xanthi stories, but all of my Fanfiction.net work. Speaking of which, I had an NCIS story that was just not happening. So I deleted it. (I'll also have to give my Stargate: Nova Roma blog/site an overhaul some day. But not today.)
So if not NCIS...
....what am I working on ? Besides August novel #3, I'm also trying to rescue my second Space: 2029 episode (Earthbound) from the same fate as my NCIS story. And yes, that means I'm going to kill off Sean Bean (aka Commissioner Simmons) <G> Okay, not really, since it's just a (fan-fiction) story.
And that's all I have for today,
Ruben Hilbers
...Well, sort of. (Because I'm going to promote my family and friends instead)
When I began writing this, I vaguely remembered writing a post called Shameless Promotion once. So I did a search and found that I had indeed done so. So this because Volume 2. Well, sort of...
Because Ruben's Unwritten Rule NR. 1 is....."Never, ever, say you're a good writer." And never, ever PRESUME it either. Or as we Dutch say it..."Act normal, that's crazy enough." Don't toot your own horn. Because if you do, you're an arrogant schmuck. Case in Point...
Harry Mullisch
...the only writer I know to do that, was Harry Mullisch. And he was IMHO an arrogant schmuck. Why his books are still required reading in school, is beyond me. Reading Harry Mullisch sucks the run out reading like a Wraith Queen sucks the life out of the average Pegasus Galaxy native. So, let's quickly move on to the people I will be promoting. Starting with the...
Dutch Only Titles
Sorry, English people, these books are only available in Dutch. So, maybe press that fast forward button. Or not... ☺Up first....I am not the first Hilbers in my family to write a book.
My grandfather Arie was a Vicar and wrote two theological books. "Bijbel and Arbeid." (The Bible and Work -1957) and "Een Goddelijk Beroep" (Divine Work -1962) He passed back in 1990. But he's books are still out there. And I'll give you one guess what the A in Ruben A. Hilbers stands for. Anyway, moving on to....
My sister Rachel Kragt. (That's her married name) Rachel was in a musical called Vet! (Fat!) Aimed at school children, it was about food - healthy and otherwise - allergies, and even sneaking in a lesson or two about bullying. Alas, it been a couple of years. So I couldn't find a link. And finally...
My uncle Roel Steenbergen wrote a book about my cousin Martijn. "Martijn - Kroniek van een Asperger" (Martijn - Chronicle of an Asperger.) I could say a lot about this book, but in suspect that the translation of the title is telling enough. And it's time to get the English folks back onboard by moving on to...
English Only Titles
...the first English link on the list. Which is not to a book, but a CD.
Made by my friend Richard Clogston, it is called...They'll Never Shut Us Up Beside leading his band, Richard is also an aspiring novelist. He has finished two novels and is cooking up his third - a sci-fi novel - right now. His novels haven't been published yet, but he's working on it. Updates as they occur.
I'm also pretty sure that Ann Montague has a novel out there. Alas, I couldn't find it. So you will have to settle for a link to her LinkedIn page. To wrap this up, I want to say that I met both Richard and Ann playing Star Trek: Pathfinder, a Star Trek Play-by E-mail RPG.
And that's all I have for tonight,
Ruben A. Hilbers
