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  Consider yourself warned. Talking to a writer is risky business.   We should come with a hazard sticker; “Be Advised! Anything you say may be used in my work.”   Simply put, there are only three sources for what a writer puts down on paper. First is imagination, which,…

Ancient Roman mosaic, buckled by earthquake, https://www.world-archaeology.com/features/discovering-roman-mosaics/   During the battle of Waterloo, Wellington, the British commander, is reported to have said to his staff, “I saw this ground last year, and kept it in my back pocket since.” (https://gjscloset.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/meet-your-waterloo/) Meaning that his keen military mind had made note of…

  For an upcoming novel, the narrative demanded that a character be flung off of an asteroid, and spend about 30 minutes falling back to the surface, because of the lower gravity involved. As originally written, the chapter is set on the asteroid Ceres. However, a little voice in the…

  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…