I just finished Draft 1 of Commer of the Rebellion, Book 6 in the Jack Commer series. It’s too early to judge what sort of novel this is, or even if COTR will remain the final title. I’m already feeling … Continue reading →
Author Linda Nightingale’s review of The Martian Marauders, Book One of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series: Various reviews here have summarized the story. I won’t repeat the details here. I’ll just say that there is much more to this … Continue reading →
Another review by author Toni V. Sweeney, this time for the third volume in the Jack Commer series, Nonprofit Chronowar. Nonprofit Chronowar by Michael D. Smith 5 Stars One minute it’s the year 2036 and Joe Commer is about to … Continue reading →
More characters from the first draft of Jack Commer #6, Commer of the Rebellion, now about three-quarters completed. Joe wondered whether Jack even considered how a dog was going to pack a USSF flight valise, and whether Amav had ever … Continue reading →
Author Toni Sweeney just posted the following reviews of the first two books in the Jack Commer series, The Martian Marauders and Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, and she’s nailed the dynamics of both novels in a way that I don’t … Continue reading →
Not long ago I was astonished to rediscover childhood Jack Commer marketing tools. As outlined elsewhere, my first Jack Commer, Supreme Commander plots unfolded in the fifth grade, and by the eighth I’d abandoned the draft of The Martian Marauders … Continue reading →
Some characters from the first draft of Jack Commer #6, Commer of the Rebellion, now in progress. The text is taken from the rough draft, about two hundred pages so far, and is obviously open to revision. We had the … Continue reading →
I recently realized that I keep blowing up expensive spaceships, and that there’s a new Typhoon spaceship (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) for every book in the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series. Though I skipped a Typhoon in Book … Continue reading →
My novel CommWealth (no, there’s really no exclamation point in the title) has been accepted for publication by Class Act Books. Publication in eBook format is scheduled for June 2015. CommWealth describes a society where there’s no legal claim to … Continue reading →
Or: Wandering in the Wilderness with New Discipline, the Consciousness Expansion of Adolescence, and Many To-Do Lists This is an odd period to write about, and only this year, after I made plans to write about first The Gore Book … Continue reading →
