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January 27, 2020
How Evil is Google? Read This!
For the record, I’m going to say that the information in the Mercola article Google — A Dictator Unlike Anything the World Has Ever Known is horrifying. I use Google and Gmail all the time, along with a lot of other products and services this story mentions. Oh my stars, they are not only spying […]
January 26, 2020
Mike Resnick, Jaym Gates, and Yes, Go Ahead and Block Me
I’ll warn you now that this one is really long (if you include the screenshots), so if you’re a TLDR person, stop now. Another warning: This is one of my rants about the culture wars that appear to be gaining momentum in the “official” world of science fiction and fantasy. It seems that it’s not […]
Sharing a Lost Moment
“Just because they we lost contact with him doesn’t mean the worst, Amalia.” Nicholas Bishop nearly reached over to touch her hand, but instead, let it join his other one, cradling his coffee cup. He followed the younger woman’s gaze out the coffee shop window. Traffic was heavy, even this early in the morning. Las […]
January 25, 2020
Pre-Order “A Mighty Fortress” Which Features My Short Story “The Deseret War” NOW!
By now, most of my regular readers know that my short story The Deseret War is going to be published in an Immortal Works anthology. I just heard that A Mighty Fortress: A Mormon Steampunk Anthology Book 4 is available for pre-order NOW for automatic delivery to your Kindle device on February 18, 2020. That’s […]
Help “Cloaked Press” Publish Indie Authors!
As my regular readers know, two of my short stories were published in Cloaked Press anthologies. “The Recall” was featured in Spring Into SciFi: 2019 Edition, and “The Demon in the Mask” appeared in Fall Into Fantasy, 2019 Edition. I have another submission into them that I hope will make it into their 2020 science […]
January 18, 2020
TREASURE CHEST: Selected Short Stories is Available Now!
Treasure Chest is Zombie Pirate Publishing‘s first “best of” anthology, a collection of short stories they’ve previously published in other works. Founded in 2017, Adam Bennett and Sam Phillips have produced a plethora of anthologies, giving indie authors like me, the opportunity to have our tales see the light of day and become available to […]
January 16, 2020
My Grandchildren Are Storytellers
It was a hard day, in a hard week, in a hard nine months or more. After dinner, while heating water for tea, I walked into my granddaughter’s bedroom. We’ve reserved one of our two spare bedrooms for her, mainly because when she was smaller and stayed with us, she’d take afternoon naps. It still […]
January 15, 2020
Clockwork Dragons is Now Available!
Today’s the day. My short story “The Mechanical Dragon” is featured in this Zombie Pirate Publishing anthology. I have a hard time not offending anyone. When I write horror, some of my friends are unhappy with me, and while I consider my “Dragon” story to be pretty benign, I know that anything to do with […]
January 11, 2020
“I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” or How to Succeed in Both Offending and Encouraging Readers
On twitter, I happened across a tweet by Cora Buhlert. It was referencing a story written by Isabel Fall for Clarkesworld Magazine called I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter. Actually, I saw that Buhlert was referencing a twitter conversation of someone called The 1000 Year Plan (actually a Marxist blogger named “Gary” who announces […]
January 10, 2020
Update for “A Mighty Fortress: Being an Anthology of Mormon Steampunk”
My short story “The Deseret War” has been accepted by Immortal Works publishing for their anthology “A Mighty Fortress: Being an Anthology of Mormon Steampunk”. This is the fourth volume in this annually released series of tales merging the themes of the LDS church and steampunk. This edition includes my story and 16 others. Here’s […]
