It’s better to blossom late…

…than to never blossom. Yeah, I’m a macho writer who likes flowers…and floral metaphors! In the title-line, I’m referring to my more-than-two-decades spent publishing my fiction after spending half the twentieth century during other stuff, of course. Although I collected ideas for many years—character- and scene-sketches, the first even with interesting names; dialogue snippets heard here and there, or only in my mind; and themes and plots for sci-fi, mystery, and thriller stories—I didn’t start...