Who would ever have thought that the fascist Alpha Centaurian Grid, linking twenty trillion citizens of the seventeen suns of the Alpha Centaurian Empire to their psychopathic Emperor, would turn out to have an important benefit to humanity? I’m working … Continue reading →
Now available on Smashwords in numerous e-formats Just released from six years in prison, unsure how to meet basic needs, biker Harry finds a kindred spirit in Roberta, in thrall to a depraved motorcycle gang. But the passive-aggressive leader of … Continue reading →
My science fiction story, “Perpetual Starlit Night” has been published in the anthology Twisted Tails VII: Irreverence, edited by J. Richard Jacobs and available from Double Dragon Publishing in eBook and paperback formats. The stories in this ongoing anthology all … Continue reading →
What would my or any current writer’s career have been like if there were no Internet or word processing, no eBooks or online publishers? Even if the invention of digital computing machines was inevitable, consider that there was no guarantee … Continue reading →
Despite a strong desire from the beginning of my writing days to write novels, for many years I found myself unconsciously kowtowing to what now seems the tyrannical pedagogical assertion that writers “learn by writing short stories” and only then … Continue reading →
Here are two video trailers I’ve made for the first two books in my Jack Commer series, published by Double Dragon Publishing (and also available from retailers such as amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com): The Martian Marauders Video The Jack Commer, Supreme … Continue reading →
I think a couple years ago I would have thought “Arboreal Ghosts” another “excellent painting” to add to my “body of work.” But what the painting really is, and I think I see this with newly-opened eyes, is another “decent … Continue reading →
This past month Double Dragon Publishing generously allowed me to correct an italics formatting problem that came up in The Martian Marauders. I’d noticed that on the Kindle format, as well as on the paperback version, some paragraphs that are … Continue reading →
Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, the second of four novels in my Jack Commer science fiction series, has just been published by Double Dragon Publishing as an eBook in a variety of formats, all of which can be downloaded from the … Continue reading →
The following is a partial list of discoveries I’ve made in the last few years that have benefited my own writing, and which I also find myself attuned to as I read others’ writing. I’m not trying to pose as … Continue reading →
