Excerpt from Dream Electric

Out of AR an hour later, Tamera scanned the manual in front of her. Rick sat next to her with a glass of whisky in his hand. In the other, a Healthy Stick, the same type of cigarette that Tamera had just been smoking, trailed layers of smoke from his fingers. Outside, the New York […]

Free Science Fiction Book—The Ajnir

My first book, The Ajnir, (just the self pub version, not the publishing house one) will be free for five days starting this Saturday if people are interested. The sequel, Into the Forest, is up on Kindle Unlimited and is available for $5.99 regularly.

A Major Key to Writing Well—Taking Breaks

A lot of people ask authors about their habitual patterns for enhancing their literary capabilities. I am by no means an old or wizened writer. However, I have gleaned one very useful technique in improving my writing ability: it involves something very simple and perhaps less arduous than some might expect. The technique is simply […]

Military Control of Book Acquisitions?

Several months ago, I sent a slush submission into Baen for my new book, Dream Electric. I received this response from the acquisitions department, which was signed by an author by the name of Gray Rinehart: Dear Author, Thank you for your patience as we considered your novel. Unfortunately, it does not seem right for […]

My Rainwater Experiment

For years now, I’ve been using a filter on my tap water. More recently, I tried something less conventional: I decided I would drink rainwater for a few days and compare and contrast my reactions to what I felt with tap water. I realize the placebo effect can be inconspicuous, and I also realize what […]

I, the Book Reviewer

First book review with IndieReaders up yesterday on Legions of Lilith, a modern story about the return of Lilith, Adam’s first wife. I’m planning to write about a review per month there for the foreseeable future. I’m actually impressed with the books I’ve read so far, being as they are self-published. Some are well-written and […]

Are Good and Evil Equal?

An interesting idea occurred to me the other day. Really, it was perhaps more of an intuition than an idea, an idea being what one creates one’s self. The other is perhaps more of a perception than an imaginary construct. The observation I had was this: I notice in some metaphysical and fantasy writings the […]

The Ajnir: An Extract

Chapter V The Departure of Manalk (a movement out of time) In the north, just beyond the Thuresce mountains, the Light Star became veiled by dim, dusted cloud cover. A cloud-made figure, like an enormous painting of a giant creature, sprawled across the horizon, cumulus clouds thickening in behind it. Simkadans had gathered outside, […]

Three Body Problem: A Book Review and Explanation

While I usually don’t go for Hard SF, a recent exemption to this was my reading of The Three Body Problem, by Cixin Liu. The book is a pretty slow-paced, literary sort of read that winds around through the heads of several Chinese government workers involved in a secret space project attempting to establish contact […]

A Review of Harold Bloom’s Arcturus Sequel

Bloom’s disinherited work, A Flight to Lucifer, represents Bloom’s tribute to David Lindsay’s eerie masterpiece, A Voyage to Arcturus. Although the works are similar, it’s worth noting that there are substantial differences, suggesting Bloom wanted to separate himself from Lindsay’s legacy and forge his own variation on Lindsay’s original work. Despite this, the work bears […]