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June 24, 2014
Unpublished Prologue for Wizard of Time #3
With The Edge of Eternity (The Wizard of Time – Book 3) coming out next week I thought I’d post a few related things this week.
Below is a prologue that I had originally written for the novel, but decided to cut as it wasn’t absolutely necessary. However, it does set up the external story a bit, and I figured folks might like to read it anyway. It’s not as thoroughly proofed as the novel, so please forgive any typos.
Unpublished Prologue for Wizard of Time #3 :
East Berlin. 1982. October 26th. N...
June 23, 2014
Wizard of Time Book 3 Coming Out July 2nd
After a few delays, The Edge of Eternity (The Wizard of Time – Book 3) will be out next week on July 2nd.
The cover is above and a synopsis is below:
The Edge of Eternity — The final book in The Wizard of Time trilogy.
As he nears his sixteenth birthday, Gabriel Salvador becomes more central than ever to the War of Time and Magic.
With the fate of the entire continuum is threatened by the plans of malignant mages, Gabriel must figure out how to protect the girl loves while defending the timeline...
May 5, 2014
Why Do Aliens Invade Earth?
So, some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that getting Wizard of Time 3 through the editor and proofer took longer than expected, so its publication will be delayed into June. Sorry. Unavoidable, as I still have a few stages of editing and review with it after the proofing process.
The good news is that I am very happy with direction the cover for The Edge of Eternity. I’ll post it shortly.
ON a completely different topic – I’ve been wondering something lately. Why do aliens invade...
April 21, 2014
Sequel Please
The announcement recently of a sequel to The Incredibles got me to wishing for sequels to other films that I love. Below is a list of a few of the stories I wish were continued.
This one tops my list. I LOVE this movie. Michael Cain playing Sherlock Holmes as a fictional invention of Dr. John Watson, played by Ben Kingsley, who is the real brains behind the sleuth. Cain and Kingsley are perfect together and the script is hilarious.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
This is obvious....
March 30, 2014
How We Got Here
Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss
Wizard of Time 3 (The Edge of Eternity) is finally off to the editor and proofer. Hopefully I will be able to have it out by the beginning of May.
Now that my brain is free from figuring out the intricacies of time paradoxes I’ve had a few minutes to think about other things, in particular the announcement last week that scientists in Antarctica had discovered what they believe to be observable proof of gravitational waves during the ultra brief inflationary perio...
January 28, 2014
Sci-Fi Novels I Loved When I Was 13
Since I’ve been writing young adult novels for the last few years, mostly aimed at kids around 13 years old, and since I am leaving that behind to begin writing an epic fantasy series geared toward adults after I publish WOT #3, I thought it would be fun to create a list of books I loved when I was a 13 year old kid — The books that both consciously and unconsciously influenced my storytelling of the last few years. So here are my favorite books from childhood. You’ll no doubt notice they are...
January 7, 2014
Favorite Post-Apocalyptic Stories
I was watching the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead this week and it got me to thinking about why I liked the show. I’ve never been very interested in zombie stories. They simply don’t appeal to me very much. I enjoyed The Night of the Living Dead mostly because I thought it was a brilliantly made low budget film and those always interest me. I read World War Z, but didn’t really enjoy it as much as appreciate the skill of the writing and the depth of the research that went into it. It w...
January 1, 2014
Happy New Year!
I haven’t been blogging at all lately. Mostly because I’ve been busy with the day job and traveling for work and trying to edit The Edge of Eternity (The Wizard of Time – Book 3). Also because I haven’t been all that interested in blogging recently. Not exactly sure why. But it didn’t seem to make much sense to force myself to write something I wasn’t all that interested in writing. Honestly, I’d rather spend that free with my wife.
Hopefully in the new year I’ll bet back to a more regular blo...
October 11, 2013
Why I Like Sci-Fi and Fantasy
It’s been a busy month since my last post. A job that took me to Chantilly, France. A week in Paris with my wife. A few days back in NYC. Then 10 days in Santa Monica and San Francisco to visit friends and to officiate the wedding of a childhood friend. Then a week to recuperate.
Needless to say, I have not been getting much editing done on The Edge of Eternity (Wizard of Time Book 3). Hopefully I can get the second draft finished by mid-November and a third draft by the end of the year, get i...
September 5, 2013
Favorite Sci-Fi Films from the 1950s
I have always had an odd fascination with sci-fi films from the 1950s. More than any other decade the films of the 1950shave always seemed to epitomize the classic sci-fi story tropes: Space Travel and Exploration, Alien Invasion, Atomic Apocalypse, Mutant Madness.
Maybe I was influenced by reading my grandfather’s old copies of Popular Science and Popular Mechanic from the 50’s. Maybe it was because our rural school library had such out dated books on space travel. Maybe it was because I star...
