Once again I’ll have a table at the North Texas Book Festival in Denton, Texas, on Saturday, April 9. The festival takes place at the Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E. Hickory St., Denton, Texas 76201. Hours are … Continue reading →
1. Concerning My Ongoing, Erroneous, but Somehow Charming Conception That the Solar System Really Does Look Like This 1959 Space Map This childhood map of the solar system has remained locked in my mind since I was seven. Whenever I … Continue reading →
I will represent Double Dragon Publishing as well as my own fledgling invention, Sortmind Press, at the North Texas Book Festival in Denton, Texas, on Saturday, April 11. The festival takes place at the Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts, … Continue reading →
I culled this post from the sortmind.com University of Mars page. I’ve always enjoyed this essay as a solid analysis of an unpublishable old novel, but it’s really a blog post, lost on a bazillion pages on sortmind.com, so I’m … 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Writers are told to self-promote everywhere but it’s beginning to seem as if folks are pulling into your driveway at 3 AM and blowing their horn MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! then charging off to blare some other victim down the street. At least … Continue reading →
