Novel publication by a royalty-paying publisher is a major milestone, and feels a hundred times better than self-publishing. It means a lot that Double Dragon Publishing has acknowledged my potential. I’ve also enjoyed learning much more about this entire process … Continue reading →
Typhoon I Navigation Officer and the third of four Commer brothers. From The Martian Marauders: Jack and Joe swiveled to him. “C’mon in. Shut the door behind you and take a seat,” Jack said, indicating the third seat at the … Continue reading →
The Wounded Frontier has been accepted for publication by Double Dragon Publishing. In Book Five of the Jack Commer science fiction series, Supreme Commander Jack Commer pushes for exploration far beyond Sol in the untested Typhoon V when a star … Continue reading →
My science fiction novel The Martian Marauders was published in 2012 by Double Dragon Publishing. I really didn’t write it in the eighth grade! Well, okay, it’s true that the somewhat dysfunctional Commer family and the history of the evacuation … Continue reading →
Brilliant, argumentative Typhoon I Physician/Engineer who set the standard for all subsequent United System Space Force engineers. From The Martian Marauders: Harri was aware of the other Typhoon crewmen coming up to view the body. A hundred yards past them, … Continue reading →
“Well, all this brings us back to Hergs,” Jack said, “which was the main reason I called this meeting. We received the CogniSort summary on him and I’ve printed it out.” Jack held up what looked like fifty pages of … Continue reading →
When I got a starter camcorder last year I found myself inexplicably unwilling to use it much, despite a long standing desire to make videos and some previous tentative experiments with the video function of my digital camera. I think … Continue reading →
Although I began writing at age seven in July 1960, I stopped after the demise of The Gore Book in the spring or summer of 1961. (More musing is forthcoming on the unholy Götterdämmerung of The Gore Book collaboration with … Continue reading →
I’ve been making my own EPUB versions of various working novels (using the Calibre program, which has gotten good reviews and which I recommend highly) to see how a novel comes across in that format, and to do yet another … Continue reading →
I finally pulled together various Jack Commer images I’ve done over the past couple decades onto one web page. The impetus came from finding what I’d remembered as a mediocre, crudely done black and white sketch for the original Nonprofit Ladies … Continue reading →
