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  Did Rudyard Kipling invent steam punk? Arguably, yes.   The other day, an online post took me back to my high school days, when I stayed up through one Saturday night to finish an anthology of Kipling stories. That must have been an earlier collection than the one edited…

Here’s a snippet from the first chapter of my stand alone novel, Fool’s Paradise. It’s the tale of an interstellar freelance operative, who is hired to retrieve something of value from a planet which has descended into chaos. Before long, he figures out the job is going to be a…

Image: The Wizard of ID, The Peasants Are Revolting   I have a serious problem, with revolting characters.   Upon starting to write fiction, I discovered that there are several different ways to plan out a story. The most logical is just that. Write down an outline of how the…

Waking Writer has been kind enough to interview me about my writing. hope you enjoy.

  I will be attending the Labyrinth of ConFusion science fiction convention this coming weekend (1/19-21/24), near Detroit, and have been asked to sit on several panels. One of those panels is titled: The Current State of Short Fiction. Now there are two ways to view this subject, literary and…

I’ll be at the Labyrinth of ConFusion science fiction convention next weekend (1/19-21), Sheraton Detroit Novi Hotel. Speaking in several panels. Reading from one of my books. Look me up and say Hi!Link to the Con: https://lnkd.in/gfg8mCawLink to my schedule: https://lnkd.in/gtYUbYNM My Speaker’s Sessions                                                                                 Friday, January 19                                                             5:00pm EST:…

This is a milestone for me. My first three novels (A Grand Imperial War, A Grand Imperial Heir, and Fool’s Paradise) are on the shelf at the local library; the Grace A Dow Memorial Library (https://www.gadml.org/). A lot of times authors feel like they’re typing into the wind, with no…

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WindyCon 49 Enjoyed attending WindyCon, this past weekend. Met a load of fans, and was on several panels. The 1st one, “Please Note, Post-Apocalyptic Books Have Been Moved to Current Affairs,” was a hoot. One thing I noticed was the repeated discussion of the big, scary AI Menace in almost…

Lord of a Shattered Land by Howard Andrew Jones My rating: 5 of 5 stars This is a fun, fantasy read. Hanuvar is a defeated man, but not a beaten one. The tale is told episodically, with the episodes getting better and better as the book goes on. Which is…