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“Time’s Abyss” Comes Out Next Month!

  Last April, I announced that my novella Time’s Abyss was available for pre-order at Amazon for delivery to your Kindle device on October 15, 2021. That’s just a hair under six weeks now as I write this, and I’m really excited (you can find more links at books2read). With a word count of over […]

Three Weeks Until “Theo Klaagorn, Private Eye”

Three weeks until “Theo Klaagorn, Private Eye”. I’ll post the pre-order link when available. Just three weeks until the 2021 edition of Fall Into Fantasy is available. In 2019, my short story “The Demon in the Mask” appeared in this edition. When I went back to Amazon, I found out that one reviewer last year […]

My Short Story “The Last Astronaut” to be featured in the anthology “Exploring Infinity”

A few years back, I read Richard Paolinelli’s novel Escaping Infinity, which I subsequently reviewed. I found out that although Richard hadn’t planned on writing a sequel, the novel’s fans kept pestering him about it. So he did, or rather, he will, in the forthcoming book “Expanding Infinity.” However, in between this and that, he […]

Another Short Story About to be Published in the Anthology…

This is one of those things I really want to talk about but I can’t give out too many details yet. The publisher hasn’t given me the green light to name names, but one of my short stories has been accepted in an anthology that should become available the weekend after Labor Day (or so). […]

Book Review of “Cibola Burn,” the Fourth in the “Expanse” Series

Last night, I finished Cibola Burn (2015), which is the fourth book in The Expanse novel series by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). As with the previous novel Abaddon’s Gate, it was a little difficult for me to get into at first, but once I was hooked, I was hooked hard. The […]

To Be Published in “Fall into Fantasy 2021”

Since 2019, my short stories have appeared more or less regularly in the Cloaked Press anthologies Spring into SciFi and Fall into Fantasy. I’m proud to announce that my urban fantasy tale “Theo Klaaggorn, Private Eye” will be appearing in the upcoming “Fall into Fantasy 2021.” Here’s a small preview: I left the werewolf in […]

Not the Comic Books I Grew Up With

I received quite a bit of feedback on my last blog post, mainly in social media. So when insomnia seized me by the throat tonight, I re-read some other “controversial” material I’d sampled earlier and figured, why not? I need to kill some time and let being sleepy overwhelm my anxiety (long story). I follow […]

Why Don’t Men (Supposedly) Read Books by Women? Hint: It’s Not Because of Sexism

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi This all started with an article in The Guardian titled Why do so few men read books by women? by M.A. Sieghart (the “M.A.” standing for Mary Ann). Her article (which she wrote to promote her recently published book) is quite […]

Book Review of “Abaddon’s Gate,” the Third in the “Expanse” Series

If you like my work, buy me a virtual cup of coffee at Ko-Fi Finished reading Abaddon’s Gate by James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck) which is the third in the Expanse series. It was a little harder for me to get into at first, unlike Leviathan Wakes or Caliban’s War. Starting things […]

Rejection and Feedback

Random stuff. I haven’t been writing much lately. Okay, I haven’t been writing anything new at all. I do technical writing for my day job of course, and I just finished yet another freelance job updating/refreshing test questions at the back a technology book (it’s actually more interesting than it sounds, pays pretty well, and […]