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July 4, 2015
Happy 4th Of July
For those in the US, Happy July 4th. For those not in the US, have a great weekend regardless. We’re off to getting together with a bunch of friends and family, eating stuff hot off the grill, doing justice to…Read more ›
July 3, 2015
Aliens Will Look Like Humans
In his new book “The Runes of Evolution,” Professor Conway Morris makes the argument for human-like aliens. According to the professor, there is little chance that the aliens we find in the Earth-like planets astronomers are looking at will be…Read more ›
Black Hole Caught Burping
[On June 15, NASA’s Swift caught the onset of a rare X-ray outburst from a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system V404 Cygni. Astronomers around the world are watching the event. In this system, a stream of gas from…Read more ›
July 1, 2015
Did You Know?
Last week I started off this series with H. G. Wells, often hailed as the father of Science Fiction. This week we cross the channel to find another author who made just as profound an impression of the genre and…Read more ›
June 30, 2015
Chief Strategist Tomlyn Elon
Editing is complete. Launch date is set to July 15th. Excited much! Time to share an excerpt from the first episode-Anomaly. Chief Strategist Tomlyn Elon studied the Erase list one last time. He was sending out enforcers to get a dozen people…Read more ›
June 28, 2015
Sounds Like Writing
“If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.” ~Elmore…Read more ›
June 27, 2015
Grammar Demons, Take That (Part 9)
Fun one today on internet acronyms. I use the common ones quite often–BRB, LOL, ASAP, WYSIWYG. But many others I often have to look up. This list will definitely come handy. As always, if you have a favorite infographic…Read more ›
June 26, 2015
Travel Inside A Black Hole, Courtesy VSauce
Awesome Vsauce episode on black holes. Enjoy!
June 25, 2015
3D Book Covers–A Brief How To
This post could very well be called “Why I love indie publishing,” but I decided to name it otherwise because while WILIP (acronym for “why I . . .” to spare you the pain of reading the whole phrase each…Read more ›
June 24, 2015
Did You Know?
Since my blogs posts have become more free form compared to what I started with, and the change feels more-or-less okay, I thought of working on a new series on Wednesdays. Lately, I’ve been re-reading the books that I’ve loved…Read more ›
