Behind the 8-Ball Ready for Preorders

My next ePublication will be the speculative short story “Behind the 8-Ball”: The clock is running down as humanity struggles to find a new home; they’ve opened a gate into the unknown, but need evidence that their new world is on the other side before they go through. Moses can provide that proof, but how could … Continue reading →

Waiting For Thy Muse

I have always enjoyed writing and making up stories, although I can’t say I’ve been serious about it until the last four years. What do I mean, to be SERIOUS about writing? There’s a difference between taking a sprint around the block just for the fun of it, maybe even racing against a friend (or … Continue reading →

Rituals and Resolutions

Here we are in the last full week of 2015 – time once again to engage in that time-honored tradition of planning the resolutions that we’re going to break for 2016. After you’ve been doing this for so many years, it sort of feels like that doesn’t it – a bad joke ensconced as a … Continue reading →

New Release: “Finding Sanctuary”

After generations searching for a home, the colonists of The Promise think they’ve found a it. But is this seemingly perfect world where they’ll find Sanctuary? (A bit of sci-fi, a pinch of fantasy, a slice of horror; a good mix of what makes up speculative fiction. Add in alien spiders – how can you … Continue reading →

Differences Between Novels, Series, Stand-Alone Shorts, and Life (and the Wind-Down of the “Finding Sanctuary” Preorder Promo)

I’m over 7000 words into my 4th Detective Jimmy Delaney story. DJD is short fiction, but I’ve noticed that in both of my SERIES (the other is Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire) the stories (after the first in each series) run longer than most of the rest of my short fiction; out of my … Continue reading →

This Is Bill’s House – a Not So Fable-ous Analogy (and the Last Smashwords Coupon)

This is Bill’s house. We won’t quibble about how Bill came by this house – maybe he just bought it. Maybe it was given to him – possibly by his forbears. Maybe he built the house himself. By whatever laws hold sway in the land where Bill lives, this is Bill’s house. There is a … Continue reading →

“Finding Sanctuary” Available on Pre-order

After generations searching for a home, the colonists of The Promise think they’ve found a it. But is this seemingly perfect world where they’ll find Sanctuary? (A bit of sci-fi, a pinch of fantasy, a slice of horror; a good mix of what makes up speculative fiction. Add in alien spiders – how can you … Continue reading →