<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Aaron Strix-Corvus LaBertew-Author]]></title><description><![CDATA[Embark on extraordinary journeys through our imaginative worlds.]]></description><link>https://www.aaron-strix-corvus-labertew.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:48:14 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.strix-scifi.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Of Oracles and Sirens- Sample Chapter]]></title><description><![CDATA[[The Oracine Order reminds the reader that this information is historical in nature, compiled from a rough draft of the final version of the Approved Histories of Humanity.  Information contained in this record may contain inaccuracies that have since been corrected.] 	 Avery had been thrilled to have the excuse to spend more time with Renata. She was funny and smart, a great friend. And devastatingly beautiful when she was scheming things, which was pretty much all the time lately. He’d been...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/the-great-filter-sample-chapter</link><guid isPermaLink="false">67b8b8d174b6f5de6cb8462a</guid><category><![CDATA[Sample Chapters]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:48:22 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through Light and Shadow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its official, the title for book 2 of the Oraculi Chronicles is "Through Light and Shadow!" My early readers (thank you all!) got to see that title a week early, and today I unveiled it publicly at my book signing at Barnes &#38; Noble in Jordan Creek Mall! The manuscript for Through Light and Shadow is currently going through developmental edits, which should be finished around August 21st or so. The word count for that first draft came in around 107,000 words spread across 40 chapters, a...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/through-light-and-shadow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6fa9e316cff318c185da43</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:00:04 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Debut to Best Seller!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Status Report What a wild two weeks it has been! The launch for Of Oracles and Sirens went great, with around 60 sales in the first week and a great launch party at Pageturner's Bookstore! It was so awesome to see everyone that was able to make it and answer questions about the book. This week saw the launch of the BookBub promo, and the results quickly exceeded my expectations. As of this writing I am somewhere around 445 sales across all my channels, an impressive number for a debut author...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/from-debut-to-best-seller</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ea3e5fbbc0f3ff7449018b</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:24:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Eve of Launch]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report This is the first Behind the Archives post after the launch of my newsletter! The content for these will be largely the same, with newsletter subscribers receiving the updates a few days early, as well as added goodies like download links to artwork from the Oraculi Universe, wallpapers, and other exclusive content. My brain is in full marketing mode right now, with Of Oracles and Sirens launching tomorrow! Marketing is probably one of the...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/on-the-eve-of-launch</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69d4632676401abf0cb34f16</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:01:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Archives - 3/18/2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report Its been a while! I've been pushing myself pretty hard with drafting for book 2 in the Oraculi Chronicles, getting last minute items lined up for the launch for Of Oracles and Sirens, and keeping up with family while squeezing in some downtime to avoid burnout. The good news is that everything for Of Oracles and Sirens is now finalized! I have a launch party arranged at our local Pageturners Bookstore on April 11th, as well as couple more...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/behind-the-archives-3-18-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69badd7ac384c212cc968441</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:39:31 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Archives - Week of 2/15/2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report The crazy pace continued the past couple of weeks! Advanced Reading Copies are out to all my early readers (very positive feedback so far!), I officially unveiled the launch date for the book (April 7th!), and I signed up for my first author event. Writing on Book 2 has stalled momentarily. This book has multiple character points of view right from the start, and I was having trouble seeing where my characters were taking things with the...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/behind-the-archives-week-of-2-15-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69924da9884976137da7bad2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:18:24 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GeekOut, episode 3! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Alien sentient life is easily one of the most common recurring tropes in science fiction. The thought of other intelligence somewhere out there in our universe has fascinated our species for a long time, and may even have roots in our ancient ancestors competition with other humanoid species that evolved alongside us. But how likely is it, exactly, that sentient alien life actually exists, especially life that we might have a chance of communicating with? This question is part of what drove...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/geekout-episode-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6988d09b5275ae5022b726c3</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:13:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Archives - Week of 2/1/2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report These last couple weeks have been a flurry of activity! I've been switching between writing on the first draft of my second book, getting marketing posts out, and approving line edits for 'Of Oracles and Sirens'.  All that plus an unveiling for the book's cover art and getting advanced reading copies out to early readers! I've been a bit busy to say the least. Highlights from the Archive We have a few more entries in the Requiem's Log, as...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/behind-the-archives-week-of-2-1-2026</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697fffa91dce0ff3f104c49e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:17:03 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GeekOut, episode 2!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Out of all of the technologies that we are trying to perfect today, I think fusion power holds one of the largest potentials to really transform our world. Clean, cheap, and abundant energy wouldn’t just lower our electricity bills, it would fundamentally change how we think about electrical power and how we use it. Like most new technologies, this could lead to both good and bad uses, but I believe the potential upsides for outweigh the negatives. First, though, let’s make sure we are on the...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/geekout-episode-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">697ad8c130ffdbbf2ba17353</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:00:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Archives - Week of 1/11/26]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report Happy New Year! The first couple weeks I've mostly been focused on landing my marketing content. I have a good plan for those but I'm not sure I've really gotten TikTok figured out yet. I'm going to stick with my current format there for a bit longer, probably throw in a few different styles of videos to see if any of them perform better.  Since I'm mostly batch recording these videos a few weeks ahead of time, I did some planning for my...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/behind-the-archives-week-of-1-11-26</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6963da983fdcfca79d814e92</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:54:58 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[GeekOut, episode 1! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[What would it take to keep a small town’s population alive, healthy, and sane for a 40 year trip through space? This was the foundational question that informed the design of the Requiem de la Lune, the ship that my book Of Oracles and Sirens is set on. Everything from the structure and layout of the ship to entertainment and options to enable human creativity with limited resources stemmed from this. As a space exploration geek, I have long been familiar with the challenging question of how...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/geekout-episode-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">695c5c4648ab5c2f457c0a3f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:50:29 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Archives - Week of 12/21/25]]></title><description><![CDATA[Selected Record: Of Oracles and Sirens Status Report My manuscript is officially out for line and copy editing! I'm nearing the end of this journey for Of Oracles and Sirens  and I could not be more excited! That said, I am now switching gears into full-steam marketing mode. Thus, I'm making some changes to this space in what I hope will be a more valuable edition of my usual blog posts. Firstly, these posts will be on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis going forward, largely dependant on...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/behind-the-archives-week-of-12-21-25</link><guid isPermaLink="false">694b416e922cfc95692da543</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:11:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Story-locked! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Its been an eventful day! I received the analysis of my 2nd draft from my editor a day early, much to my delight! They stated my revisions were spot on and rounded out the story perfectly, and also pointed out a few small continuity issues they had spotted. After fixing these, they recommend I move on to line and copy editing! I dove into making those revisions immediately, and with everything wrapped up the manuscript is now officially story-locked! This means the only changes going forward...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/story-locked</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6948a9c7cd28170851f5cdcc</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:29:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Off to the Editors! Again!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having completed the edits to the book and then a quick proofread to clean up any inconsistencies, my 2nd draft of the manuscript is officially off to the editors! This time we're doing a targeted developmental edit of the additional and modified chapters to ensure the new character POVs flow with the rest of the book, and that I didn't miss any plot holes with the new content!  I am certain that my editor will come back with some excellent suggestions for changes afterwards, but as the 2nd...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/off-to-the-editors-again</link><guid isPermaLink="false">692f81d3d566b35f04b06a00</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:32:23 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[One step closer!]]></title><description><![CDATA[My second round of story-line updates has been completed! Moving over the summer combined with the stresses of getting our old house ready to sell definitely put a damper on the progress, but with that out of the way I've been moving through the edits eagerly. In response to the suggestions from my editor of the first draft I've adde a couple of point of view characters throughout the book, and I feel like their stories really help fill in some of the gaps. With their additions and some...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/one-step-closer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6920b9b624c04b1753db388c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:28:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sidetracked...]]></title><description><![CDATA[My first couple weeks of time off from work have largely been eaten up with getting our old house ready to list, finally.  Between that,...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/sidetracked</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68b8fdb2c176792a1eba0205</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:07:44 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[On to Act 2!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Editing has begun on Act 2, although having to juggle getting our old house ready for sale definitely keeps progress slow.  Fortunately,...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/on-to-act-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689d42acdf9fab6286afb211</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:15:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act 1 Editing, complete!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Act 1 editing is a wrap! With three chapters added, things are comping together quite nicely. I anticipate adding at least a couple new...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/act-1-editing-complete</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689412c4d9d80408cb225477</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:08:21 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Editing progress, Artwork arriving soon! ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A brief update this week, a day late admittedly as I was catching up with some old friends last night. My second new chapter for the book...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/editing-progress-artwork-arriving-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">688c19e845ab709d6d068dab</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 01:43:18 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progressing on Multiple Fronts]]></title><description><![CDATA[This past week was fairly exciting!  I unveiled the official title for my debut novel, continued building up my audience on TikTok, and...]]></description><link>https://www.strix-scifi.com/post/progressing-on-multiple-fronts</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68816f9fd452706b14954475</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:39:14 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Strix-Corvus Labertew</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>