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 →
A previous post, The First Childhood Appearance of Jack Commer, covered the origin of my space hero Jack in the fall of 1962 and my elation at writing the story “Voyage to Venus” for a fifth grade spelling assignment. That … Continue reading →
I wrote my first stories in July 1960 in Fair Haven, New Jersey, around the time of my second operation for a head injury in a car accident earlier that year. I was seven years old. My friend Sabin Russell and … Continue reading →
In 2075 Laurie Lachrer 283, a Heroes and Villains of the Thirties robot created as part of a collector’s series in the 2040’s, has joined robot General John J. Douglas’s Robots Rights League. From the fifth book of the Jack … Continue reading →
Consider that the top of the hour is the same everywhere: 10:00 AM in Dallas, 4:00 PM in London, 11:00 PM in Beijing, 12:00 AM tomorrow in Tokyo … There may be some renegade time zone somewhere whose inhabitants insist … Continue reading →
I need to keep reminding myself about characters. Because I almost fell into this trap working on the notes for the sixth Jack Commer novel, Commer of the Rebellion. Boy, I really was straining for a dazzling plot, but it … 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 →
The Wounded Frontier, Book Five of the Jack Commer, Supreme Commander science fiction series, has been accepted for publication by Double Dragon Publishing. Since she first appeared in Book Three, 2013’s Nonprofit Chronowar, Mandy has progressed far from her original … Continue reading →
Cribbed and slightly expanded from a 2013 blog post, where it got lost in the middle. But as I start looking over my notes for a sixth Jack Commer novel, all this rumination applies anew! Notes for a novel have … Continue reading →
Marooned on dead planet Earth, writhing in fever dreams, Joe is dying from the aftereffects of a Martian ice ray along with his brother Jack. From The Martian Marauders: FORGET THAT! FORGET THAT! IT’S BEEN SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN THAT JACK COMMER … Continue reading →
