Patrick J. Larkin

I'm an author specializing in historical, military, and espionage thrillers -- from RED PHOENIX (with Larry Bond) to THE DEVIL'S FORTRESS (with Dale Brown).

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Just dropped a new YouTube Short for THE LAST PRINCE. It's challenging, but fun, to fit content inside the 60 second limit. And this one reveals the origin of the story...
https://t.co/gycXae9Zkr

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[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@scottrkrol My dad, some of my younger brothers, and I used to play seasons...until my parents gave me AH's 1914 for my 10th birthday.

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Exactly! And my dad had rules to account for different sizes and types of guns firing, etc. (The rules are somewhere -- either in my house in a box...or in my parents' house in a box.) All-Star was published by Cadaco, I think. Here's a BGG link I just found. https://t.co/5pXUTAW0ct

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@JulieCFrost "Simplus Lens Solution." Yes, my life is sort of boring...

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Just. So. Cool.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

Time-lapse of today’s Starship flight, from liftoff to splashdown, in just 150 seconds. 🚀

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Unfricking real! Starship is just floating in the Indian Ocean after the most amazing reentry and soft landing. They may have to sink it themselves....

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Starship Flight 13 looking good so far! Hard water landing for the booster, but it made it all the way back to the zone...and Ship is in space, getting ready to deploy operational Starlink satellites. (This is a lot more like the future I was promised as a kid...when I wrote my first book on astronauts and rockets at age 7...in 1968.)

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@dvorahfr Very nice! How do you achieve such clarity of the imagery?

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Chapter III: North to War of THE LAST PRINCE is now available in four shorter, easier-to-watch in a sitting, episodes:
Part I: https://t.co/SAzhJKYCq0
Part II: https://t.co/eYNBBTNbJG
Part III: https://t.co/kEVTmGMBL9
Part IV: https://t.co/1YwdlFKXTP

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Chapter II: Into the West of THE LAST PRINCE is now available on YouTube in three, easier-to-watch episodes:
Part I: https://t.co/z9d6wEIhAQ
Part II: https://t.co/Yu9VlBJVSt
Part III: https://t.co/WERo1e4VvA
#TheLastPrince #HistoricalFiction #AlternateHistory #AIGenerated #AIVideo #AIArt #GrokImagine

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@scottrkrol Hmm...adjust 1930s director avatar to look like a Goth baddie. Create modern background image. Use Grok Imagine to animate avatar consuming what might appear to be a...no, no...that's either wildly illegal or unethical...or both.

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

THE LAST PRINCE has been an experimental project -- an attempt to tell a long-form story as a cinematic visual novel. I've released 3 chapters so far, for a total of 40 minutes. But I'm beginning to think those segments are too long for today's fractionated attention spans. One possibility would be to recut those chapters into specific scenes (3-7 minutes or so) and rerelease the story in that format. I would really appreciate thoughts and comments.

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[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@scottrkrol 10 million views?! [Eyes Tide Pods thoughtfully....]

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

I've already gotten a few views...though no real followers. It's definitely been worth it so far. (The interface is being a little clunky about letting me add to my placeholder channel description, but that's a problem for later.) Otherwise, it was very little work to add the channel.

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@RantyAmyCurtis MacGyver almost six years ago...not long after we discovered the chewed wood on our front staircase...Good thing he's cute.😉

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

@TRUBLUMOJO @monsterhunter45 Wrong. But do live on in ignorance.

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Honestly, he could hire a couple of talented writers, a couple of talented Grok et. al. prompters, a couple of talented video experts (to handle transitions, etc.), and a good composer -- and they could create a good-to-great film within months. (All for well under $200K and probably a lot less.) I'm nowhere near skilled and I've produced 54 minutes of THE LAST PRINCE in just a couple of months, for a couple of hundred bucks in software subscriptions. The tech is improving rapidly.

[Patrick J. Larkin @PatrickJLarkin1]

Thanks to advice from Fly Unfriendly Skies (@scottrkrol), I've also uploaded the long-form chapters for THE LAST PRINCE, and some shorter videos onto my new Rumble channel.https://t.co/FF8Yw341qL

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