Sometimes this novel still feels like a rough draft, sometimes a finished work close to publication. But I finally decided that Draft 2 is done and that I’m working on successive edits of a final manuscript of Supreme Commander Laurie. … Continue reading →
During Draft Two edits I’ve been struck by how nobody wants to pin a solid name on the central anomaly of the universe as posited in the final Jack Commer book, Balloon Ship Armageddon: The n-dimensional sphere represents contradictory and … Continue reading →
Supreme Commander Laurie Draft Two, still in progress, is already 27 pages and 7,858 words lighter. Overall the energy’s high and the story arc’s where I want it; I don’t see holes, extraneous junk, or need for major architectural work. … Continue reading →
When the solar system adopts the buggy SolGrid telepathic network as a defense against alien intrusion, Jack Commer’s impudent son Jonathan James instigates a rebellion against what he considers fascist brainwashing. His tiny army includes his lover Suzette, the wife … Continue reading →
The ongoing stylistic cleanup of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series continues, with Collapse and Delusion, Book Four, just republished by Sortmind Press: Amazon paperback Amazon eBook (Kindle format) Smashwords eBook (multiple formats) Collapse and Delusion picks up from the … Continue reading →
With the shocking suicide of spaceship Typhoon I, the four Commer brothers are reduced to two. After the Final War, the evacuation of Earth, and battle with Martian terrorists, is eldest brother Jack fit to lead the United System Space … Continue reading →
The republished The Martian Marauders, Book One of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander series, is now available from Sortmind Press. Amazon paperback Amazon eBook (Kindle format) Smashwords eBook (multiple formats) After the sale this year of the original publisher, I’ve … Continue reading →
No reader can possibly be prepared for this blog author to include a snippet from a June 26, 1971 letter to my friend Sabin Russell. I didn’t realize at the time how important this paragraph would be in my life. … Continue reading →
Shackism: In the moment, flexible, aware, expectant. Creative disorder. Making pottery in a little shack at the side of an empty desert highway. Hit or miss power. Sortmind: Deep intuition, synthesizing, order, explanations, philosophy, indexing. In harmonious contact with all … Continue reading →
Barbie Malroux, Canterra Art Institute cheerleader and architecture student Witness his miserable entanglement with that girl in math. He groaned to consider his downfall here. The girl was everything he always said he despised. First of all, her name was … Continue reading →
