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“Onward foo the throg!”

Kind of at loose ends this August.  I’m doing a lot of work to get my Juicy Ghosts books out.  I had a great Kickstarter campaign for the novel, and lined up about 300 backers.  I’m doing final edits on the novel and on the accompanying volume of notes.  And I printed some preliminary proof […]

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Self-Pub My JUICY GHOSTS Novel

So I finished my Juicy Ghosts novel that I’ve been posting about for the last two years. My agent and I sent the Juicy Ghosts manuscript to three smallish publishers who are that crucial notch above being “small presses.”. The first two never answered. And the third said no, he thought the political assassination stuff […]

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Flying Saucer Jamboree

I’m getting the feeling there’s a renewed interest in UFOs, so I’m doing a jamboree post. For my text, I’ve taken some excerpts from (a) my introduction to my novel Saucer Wisdom, (b) my part of a postcript essay that Marc Laidlaw and I wrote for a Stephen Baxter’s novel Alien Contact, and (c)  an […]

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Fishing. Fort Bragg. Art.

Jumping back to my 75th birthday in March, our three kids and their families gathered in our back yard and decorated it with streamers and helium balloons, including a pair of large ones shaped like the numerals 7 and 5. And inevitably a certain grandchild let the 5 slip, and she was worried I’d be […]

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Lots of Book Covers + Fantasy Hive Interview

In March, Jonathan Thornton of Liverpool, England, interviewed me for The Fantasy Hive ezine. I’m reprinting most of the interview here with one change—I’ve started calling my new novel Juicy Ghosts instead of calling it Teep. For illos, I dug out a buttload of old cover images. Q1. You’ve just finished your latest novel Juicy […]

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Seventy Five

I turned 75 on March 22, 2021. Here’s some photos relating to that, and to other things, also some text about the images. No special theme today. Georgia and Isabel came into town to join Rudy Jr for my party. We swung by the De Young Museum in SF to see the Calder and Picasso […]

Renormalization. “The Day We Met.”

There’s this word “renormalization” used in quantum mechanics, or in black hole physics, to describe a situation where the values of your state vectors are rushing off towards singularities and infinities and paradoxes and you — you “renormalize” your coordinate system — like by changing your x-axis to a (1/x)-axis, and then the laws can […]

Finishing JUICY GHOSTS

I’ve been in a bloodlust writing frenzy for the last couple of months, writing all day almost every day, pushing and pushing to finish off my novel Juicy Ghosts — which I’m now calling Juicy Ghosts — that I’ve been working on for two years. It’s pretty much done now. Today’s post is excerpts of […]

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Finishing TEEP

I’ve been in a bloodlust writing frenzy for the last couple of months, writing all day almost every day, pushing and pushing to finish off my novel Teep that I’ve been working on for two years. It’s pretty much done now. Today’s post is excerpts of my writing journals from the last three weeks, along […]

What Shape Is the Scrooge Cubic Acre?

I finished writing my novel Teep this week. Now I’m going to the beach or lying around at home reading Uncle Scrooge comics. And I’ve come across a math puzzle for you! The Scrooge Cubic Acre Uncle Scrooge’s money bin is approximately a cube that’s 100 feet on each edge, making a volume of a […]