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Developmentally editing Surrogate Code

David Bowie: Changes

What if we were able to developmentally edit our lives at the time of death?

David Bowie’s song, “Changes”, has a line that reads: “Time may change me/
But I can’t trace time.”

One of my big whys in life is why we can’t press the rewind button?  If life is a story and we are masters of it, why can’t we trace back time?  Maybe it is because our life is both equally literary (character-driven) and commercial fiction (plot-driven). It’s hard to be two things at once; figuring y...

The Dystopia of War – A Meditation about the Current War in Ukraine

As a writer of Dystopia, I am disillusioned with war. Mostly because I see its connection to power. War isn’t the only method of power-mongers. Diplomacy is too. When you have power in the hands of those with wrong intentions, words can be just as deceiving as war.  I take refugee in poetry today. Today I hope to bring some meaning to the madness.

 

The aggressors’ hands

fumble,

bring down a weeping

of blood

to mar the beauty of wheat-fields

 

And the sky above

is still a poem

even if the sirens...

A Romance Author: The Perfect vocation for an Author

I was told, by an unassuming and well-meaning author early in my efforts to write professionally, that I’d make a good romance writer. As a female author, I’d make enough money writing love scenes, dreaming up those handsome hunks with six-packs who a  female character would pine-over, that I could feed my daughter as a single-mother. Something about that bugged me. I wasn’t sure at first what irked me so much about the suggestion, but after...

The Female Voice – Surrogate Colony on Audible

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The Audible version of Surrogate Colony is now available. Why did I chose Elizabeth Peterson, a female, as the voice actress?  The answer is that there is an issue with representation in literature, especially  Science Fiction, Cyberpunk literature. Science Fiction is dominated by male voices and male characters. In my debut novel, Surrogate Colon...

Weird-Controlling-Tech-Moguls

Surrogate Colony is a dystopian, post pandemic novel that is really a cautionary tale about the dangers of technology. I just read this morning that Bill Gates believes that by 2024 we’ll be having interviews and meetings in the “metaverse” . To me this is deeply disturbing, and quite cerebral to the point of nausea. We have a body. We should breathe. We should touch. We are organic and all have an expiry date. I am not quite sure why some p...

My Interview with USA Today Best Seller, DelSheree Gladden

Here’s a fun and and funny interview I had with DelSheree the other day.

Below is the transcript:

When did you begin writing stories?

It’s a really embarrassing thing to share, but I began writing out of childhood jealousy. There was this girl in grade 1 who was just what you would classify as the “perfect North American girl”.  This was in a time in the 80’s, in small-town Canada, where there weren’t very many people like me: a dark, Middle-Ea...

Guest Interview with DelSheree Gladden

You can learn a lot about a person by their career choices and I think I’ve won the lottery associating with people who write for a living. What is becoming my contribution to a meaningful life, is interviewing people like DelSheree Gladden who is a dynamic and interesting person, as well as a USA Today Best-Selling Author. Please comment below if you have any further questions of DelSheree and her books!

Q: Do you have a musical artist/genre...

The Ties that Bind

There is a sickening dysfunction in complacency and silence. That’s why writers write, artists paint or draw, musicians sing loudly; crescendoing the music despite the complicity and collusion of our tuned out world. They thrive on the edge of normalcy.  

It’s scary stuff being different. Having a story to tell; a muse that won’t leave you alone.

In my novel, Surrogate Colony, the problem with society, Microscrep, is when there is no ...

The Running Writer

Running is very much like writing. It is a solitary, endurance sport. You get up at stupid o’clock, hunker down to the start line and you start putting one foot in front of the other. Or, in the case of writing, one word in front of the other. At first it is refreshing, liberating, and despite being as natural as mother-nature; it is radical. Half way through the exercise it starts becoming attritional, your inner voice starts nagging, like ...

Interview with JP McLean

What is fast becoming the most exciting aspect of book marketing is collaborating with other authors. JP McLean, a fellow Canadian author, and now a Best-Selling author, interviewed me and the outcome is quite entertaining. Check out the action below.

 

Q: Talk about yourself. Your books. What you’ve written so far.
BR: I once went on a first date and after exchanging some pleasantries, he asked me “what’s your crazy?” I was taken aba...