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 →
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 →
F. T. McKinstry, Double Dragon author of The Hunter’s Rede and The Gray Isles, has posted a review of The Martian Marauders, which begins: This story opens up with a startling image of men in a spacecraft looking down on … Continue reading →
There’s an implied responsibility in being a writer or an artist, fine print in the contract we tend to blow past, so eager we are for the download. And this responsibility is to get objective about what’s coming up from … Continue reading →
The fourth book of the Jack Commer series, Collapse and Delusion, has been accepted for publication by Double Dragon Publishing. I just finished this novel, which showcases the core characters from the series and begins at the wedding of September … Continue reading →
The Martian Marauders has just gotten a review from a new review site, The Nerdasaurus Rex. Review at “The Nerdasaurus Rex” (Mark Turner), April 26, 2012 I downloaded an eCopy (is that a word yet? If not, I am totally … Continue reading →
