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What I'm writing next

I just thought I'd take the time to post what I'm writing about next, since I don't blog as much as I should. I'm currently working on a re-write of my novella Out of Time. Since I published it last year, after working on it for what seemed like an eternity, so I had it published even though it wasn't what it should have been. After about a year or so, I realize it needs more in depth characterization of more than one character, and a lot more details. Those that have read it have told me it's a

What I’m writing next

I just thought I’d take the time to post what I’m writing about next, since I don’t blog as much as I should. I’m currently working on a re-write of my novella Out of Time. Since I published it last year, after working on it for what seemed like an eternity, so I had it published even though it wasn’t what it should have been. After about a year or so, I realize it needs more in depth characterization of more than one character, and a lot more details. Those that have read it have told me it’s a

Author's Gathering place

I just thought I'd let everyone out there know about an author's gathering place called Polkadotbanner.com. You can post your profile, sites to where your books can be found, links to your important websites, how you can be contacted and whether or not you can be contacted for signings or online chats. They even randomly list your book if you become a star author. If you click on an authors' book cover, they can become the featured author for that month. Please help me out by clicking on my Pol

Author’s Gathering place

I just thought I’d let everyone out there know about an author’s gathering place called Polkadotbanner.com. You can post your profile, sites to where your books can be found, links to your important websites, how you can be contacted and whether or not you can be contacted for signings or online chats. They even randomly list your book if you become a star author. If you click on an authors’ book cover, they can become the featured author for that month. Please help me out by clicking on my Pol

My review of the Star Trek movie *spoilers*

I just saw the new Star Trek movie, and I was expecting it to be kind of like “Cloverfield,” which was a total crappy monster movie. Now, I’m a major nitpicker with all things Trek, I prefer them to stick with the canon, so, even though I watched all 5 series and 10 movies, I was expecting this to be like most other re-boots, a total disaster. It wasn’t, it was kind of like Batmans’ reboot, a pleasant surprise. The alternate universe idea was done right, in my opinion.

First off my nitpicks. I’d

Book trailer for my two novels

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Galileo in Don't Mess with Earth

In my novel, "Don't Mess With Earth," Galileo Galilei is a Terran astronomer who decides to go to to Earth to convince the powers-that-be that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around. In real life, he was a normal human who tried the exact same thing and was punished for his opposing views to official doctrine from the "Church." My story goes almost the same way….

In this, Galileo meets Michelangelo who is painting the Sistine Chapel, but had also somehow gotten his hands o

Galileo in Don’t Mess with Earth

In my novel, “Don’t Mess With Earth,” Galileo Galilei is a Terran astronomer who decides to go to to Earth to convince the powers-that-be that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around. In real life, he was a normal human who tried the exact same thing and was punished for his opposing views to official doctrine from the “Church.” My story goes almost the same way….

In this, Galileo meets Michelangelo who is painting the Sistine Chapel, but had also somehow gotten his hands o

Guide to self-publishing

I took a technical writing class this semester and I did my presentation on a guide to self-publishing.

Here is the link: http://www.cliffball.com/Guide.pdf

Roanoke: Behind the Dissappearance

In history, Sir Frances Drake left the colonists at Roanoke Island to go back to England intending to return to Roanoke. Something happened to the colonists, and they left a note saying “Croatoa” which was supposed to be a nearby island. Unfortunately, Drake couldn’t get to Croatoa due to a major storm, so he gave up. History has wondered ever since what ever happened to those colonists?

In my novel, the back story for the colonists leaving have to do with aliens who discover Earth while they are