My new in-progress novel, The Savior Virus, takes a deep dive into speculative anti-aging technologies. I’m interested in reversing my biological age in real life too, a topic I introduced in this post. I’ve been taking Niagen to increase my NAD+ levels, using saunas whenever possible induce heat-shock proteins, and shifting my exercise program toward HIIT and endurance training to increase the length of my telomeres.
Nominations are now open for the 2018 Nebula Awards, for SFWA members (including Associate members). This post lists my fiction eligible for the 2018 awards, and includes reading links. If you read and enjoy a story, please consider nominating it (I can’t nominate my own fiction, nor can the publishers).
I’ll write a follow-up post in a few weeks about the fiction I’ll be nominating myself — lots of great choices this year.
2018 Nebula and Hugo Eligible Fiction
Novel category
The Sky Woman (Flame Tree Press)
âwonderfully entertaining debut novelâ – Compelling Science Fiction
amazon link
audible link
SFWA member forum link (Ch.1-2)
Novelette category
The Icelandic Cure (Omnidawn)
âa strong, thoughtful story that inspires hope for the futureâ – Publisher’s Weekly
amazon link
SFWA member forum link
Short Story category
The Equationist (The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction)
“emotionally affecting and thought-provoking” – SF Crow’s Nest
SFWA member forum link
Purchase back issue
Targeted Behavior (Compelling Science Fiction)
read online for free
Money in the Tortoise (Intergalactic Medicine Show)
IGMS subscription link
SFWA member forum link
Plastic Eater (sfreader.com)
read online for free
I’m in awe of authors who can crank out 5-10K words a day. And there are a lot of them out there. To achieve my own writing goals, I don’t necessarily need to achieve those heroic word counts. But I would like to bump up my productivity significantly.
Ideally, I’d like to consistently write at least 5000 thousand words a week. While that’s an order of magnitude less than many writers, those words still add up. If I can keep that pace up for at least ten months, I’m at 200K words per year. That’s a couple of novel’s worth, or four novellas, or forty short stories, or some combination thereof. (Of course, many of those words will end up deleted, or archived forever, so there’s something to be said for surplus words.)
Monthly pictures of Leia at the $1/mo. membership tier.
Around the first of November I’ll be launching a Patreon account featuring the following rewards:
- Exclusive access to unpublished drafts of my new fiction each month (a new short story or chapter of my in-progress novel) with the opportunity to provide feedback.
- Full and unlimited access to all private blog posts on this site (jdmoyer.com)
- At higher levels, signed copies of my novels, one-on-one consults, invitation to an annual patron dinner (roving location) and many other rewards.
- Monthly pictures of my beautiful mystery-breed dog Leia.
For regular readers, that might bring up the question: What private posts?
So as not to surprise anybody, as of November 1 or so, some of the existing posts on this blog (less than 10%) will become accessible only to Patreon members at the $3+/month tier. Some new posts (also less than 10%) will fall into the same category.
For those who can easily afford the three bucks a month, I’d encourage you to join my Patreon for the following reasons:
- The new Patreon-member posts will be written for a smaller audience, one presumably more like-minded, and will be both more lively and more personal than the public-facing posts.
- Joining my Patreon will allow me to dedicate more time to writing, including both blogging and fiction writing (resulting in more blog posts, stories, and novels).
- It’s fun! I support a number of artists and projects on Patreon myself. It feels great to give back to people whose work I have been enjoying and benefiting from for months or even years.
What do you think? My Patreon isn’t live yet, but I’ve been working on the various membership tiers. I’d be curious as to what kinds of benefits you might want, either as a reader of this blog or of my fiction.
Reminder: On October 1st I launched a book review contest, which is open until the end of year. Review The Sky Woman on either amazon or goodreads, and win $500, two tickets to WorldCon Dublin, or one of about twenty other prizes. Based on the number of entries in past contests on this blog, there is a significant chance that everyone who enters will win something.
In the last twenty years or so, research has emerged that supports the idea that boosting levels of NAD+ (the oxidized form of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) in animals (including mammals) can slow or even reverse many aspects of biological aging, either by activating sirtuins (proteins that regulate key biological pathways), by facilitating cell-to-cell and intracellular communication, and/or by other means. NAD+ levels can be boosted by orally supplementing with NAD+ precursors, including nicotinamide riboside (patented and marketed as Niagen, abbreviated as NR), and nicotinamide mononucleotide (abbreviated as NMN). To a much lesser extent, NAD+ can be increased by supplementing with plain old niacinamide/nicotinamide (NAM), and niacin/nicotinic acid (NA).