Month: September 2026
If You Give a Writer an Idea
One thing leads to another. Essay. 300 words, 2-minute read. If You Give a Writer an Idea By Ray Tabler If you give a writer an idea, he’s going to tell a story. If he wants to tell a story, he’ll have to write it. If he wants to write…
Operation Bedrock Cover Reveal
Tanks versus dinosaurs. What’s not to love? My next novel, OPERATION BEDROCK, volume 1 of the Containment Protocol series, will soon be available from Cannon Publishing (https://www.cannonpublishing.us/). The brass has ordered Lieutenant Booker and his platoon of Abrams tanks through the portal to another universe. Dinos, volcanoes, and sexy predatory…
Getting Too Close to Indie Publishers
A shining dream. Essay. 500 words, 3-minute read. Getting Too Close to Indie Publishers By Ray Tabler. “…Don’t get too close to people. You’ll catch their dreams…” – Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dreams I recently learned some interesting facts about independent publishers. There are nearly 70,000 indie…
Novel Origin Stories
TRIZ and the rizz. Essay. 1500 words, 8-minute read Novel Origin Stories By Ray Tabler Where do ideas come from? I really don’t know. TRIZ is an organized, methodical problem-solving technique, created in 1946 by Soviet inventor and science fiction author, Genrich Altshuller. The acronym is from the Russian words…
Good News Bad News
Star Trek vs Mad Max. Essay. 1100 words, 6-minute read. Good News Bad News By Ray Tabler I have good news and bad news. First the bad news. The robots are coming to take our jobs, enslave us, and maybe exterminate us. (Terminator, Westworld, The Matrix, Robopocalypse) The aliens are…