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November 1, 2019
It’s NaNoWriMo!
November marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month and while I am not working on a novel right now, I had a spark of inspiration regarding an old one.
If you read DARCY, thank you. It was planned as a first chapter in a larger story but that petered out after about seventy pages. Good news is I was able to mine it for other works. (Note: Don’t delete work that doesn’t seem to have a future. It might somewhere else just not where you initially planned).
DARCY will remain a solo short story but the concept it was going to be part of, that of a father raising a daughter on his own while things go bad, has new life. So I’m anxious to get on with it but just not yet.
My focus, regarding fiction, will have to remain on CHASING MAGIC until I get that out. So I’ll be penning away at that during NaNoWriMo while the rest of you write that next great novel.
How do you write that novel? Dedicate 500 to 1,000 words a day for this month and string them together. At the end, you’ll have at least a novella. It’s a start.
Tell me what you’re working on. Be part of the writing community by joining in the conversation here or in social media with your progress. Use the hashtag #NaNoWriMo in the Twitterverse. And we’ll see what we can have done by December.
October 28, 2019
On the Somewhere in the Skies Podcast
While attending the Michigan UFO Con-Tact II conference this year, I had the chance to sit down with Ryan Sprague and talk a bit about CHASING DISCLOSURE, ancient aliens and of course, UFOs. The latest Somewhere in the Skies Podcast is now available with that conversation including Tim Woolworth, and Cheryl Costa.
October 23, 2019
Projects and Stuff
When the guys at Conspiranormal interviewed me quite some time ago, one of the final questions was what I was working on now that CHASING DISCLOSURE was released. I always wondered what General Nathan F. Twining thought about the flying saucers he signed off on in a September 23, 1947 letter to a General Schulgen over at the Pentagon. Twining’s letter confirmed the phenomenon was real but didn’t know what to do about it or where they elusive saucers were coming from. His letter suggested a group form to study the problem and obtain an answer. That project was the predecessor to Project Blue Book, Project Sign. And we all know that neither Sign nor Blue Book (or Grudge in between) got an answer. In fact, we know Blue Book officially folded in 1969 after the Condon Report came out and said there was nothing to it. So my question was, did General Twining ever change his mind regarding the subject matter? He died in 1982. So maybe he said something somewhere to someone or in writing.
October 16, 2019
Government Doesn’t Have the UFO Answer
A strange thing about the UFO community and those seeking answers about UFOs is the accusation that the government has the truth on the UFO phenomenon and isn’t willing to share with the public. It’s sort of strange. What makes anyone think the government is the sole proprietor of this information?
October 9, 2019
Podcasting is Killing Books – Sorta
Sometime ago, Sam Harris noted on his podcast (exact reference eludes me) that writing books wasn’t as effective as his podcast in communicating to his audience. Someone had asked him why he wasn’t churning books out anymore and although he didn’t say he wasn’t going to write one again, the reason for the lack of one was due to his podcasting. His rationale was that he can interview someone on a topic of interest and in a matter of days, have it edited and uploaded to the InterWebs for all of us to enjoy. In contrast, if he were to examine the topic in writing, it would take much longer. And finally, he could reach a wider audience because more would listen to a podcast than read a book.
I can see the point. But it doesn’t mean I’m happy about it.
October 2, 2019
A Sitchin Time
How I once thought the work of Zecharia Sitchin belonged in the history section of the bookstore, came to learn how faulty it was and after penning an essay on it, recieved a snotty letter from the man himself.
October 1, 2019
CHASING MAGIC – It Begins!
If you read CHASING DISCLOSURE first of all, thank you. It was a labor of love finally contributing something to a subject that’s been with me since childhood. I dedicated the book to my father who had the TIME LIFE series of books on mysteries and watched IN SEARCH OF with Leonard Nimoy. He and my grandfather would talk about Von Daniken’s hypothesis and UFOs and cryptids. I remember him talking about a neanderthal skull that appeared to have a bullet wound in its head. What exactly was around back then shooting neanderthals? (Answer here)
August 21, 2019
Michigan UFO Con-tact II
Seems we were just all together a few weeks ago but nope, nearly a whole year has passed since the first Michigan UFO Conference. Please join me again, this time for a two day con in Houghton Lake, Michigan!
June 28, 2019
BECOMING FANTASTIC available in Skeptic Magazine
BECOMING FANTASTIC, my article examining why some accomplished people embellish their already good name with wild tales is now available in this issue of Skeptic Magazine. Catch it here![image error]
January 3, 2019
UFOs: Why Humanoid Aliens? Why So Varied?
My latest Skeptical Inquirer article is now available for public consumption, out from behind a paywall. Enjoy!
Ufology is replete with varing descriptions of UFOs and their occupants – so much so that concluding an alien intelligence is piloting them goes against the more logical conclusion that the only intelligence behind the phenomenon is the human brain itself.
