Back in the days of GEnie, an online service run by General Electric (thus the quirky capitalization) and before the spread of the Internet*, there was an SFRT (Science Fiction Round Table). By the time I had joined, the Science Fiction Roundtable had expanded beyond the one board to three: SFRT, SFRT2, and SFRT3 ( Read more... )

I've always been reluctant to write much here about the theory and practice of writing. I always thought, "Who am I to tell people how to write? There are so many people who are so much better out there. People would do better to listen to them."

Well, I've now got a few things out under my own name, and people are actually buying them and saying ( Read more... )

Emergency Medical services on the Moon present new challenges, not all of which come with the territory. Kristine is an EMT in the Lunar Ambulance Service. Budget cuts and inadequate equipment make it increasingly difficult for her to do her job. William Schneider is finding that some of his subordinates have ideas of their own, ideas contrary to ( Read more... )

Back when I first started writing the way things worked was that you wrote a story, sent it out to markets for that kind of story (one at a time) and if none of those markets bought it, you stored it (called "in the trunk") and hoped that another market might open up that would let you sell some of these "trunk stories" down the road ( Read more... )

After picking up my daughter at daycare yesterday, she told me, without prompting, that she thought the best melee weapon for a zombie apocalypse was a spiked club. The reasons she gave is that one is easy to fabricate from a piece of wood, a hammer, and some nails and that that it's relatively easy to drive the spikes into the brain stem. Okay, ( Read more... )

My novelette "Live to Tell" is now up at Smashwords. If all goes well, it should soon be available at other e-book retailers as well.

Staff Sergeant Mike Yamada must overcome his worst nightmares as he faces recapture by the alien Eres forces.

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Two days ago was the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire. Over on FaceBook there were a number of posts commemorating that event and honoring the three men who died in it ( Read more... )

And people are still frothing at the mouth about it

However, consider:

• I decide to speak in favor of a politician or cause in which I believe.
• I decide to buy ad space/time on TV, Radio, or Print media to favor a cause I believe.
• I, and some friends who agree with me, decide to pool our resources to buy more time/space, or time/space in larger (or ( Read more... )

When I was very young we would often visit my great grandmother's house. It was a big, two-story place in Portsmouth Virginia (where we lived, along with a lot of extended family. Well, Portsmouth and Chesapeake ( Read more... )

Just typed "The End" on a new story. Original working title as a concept was "Dances with Orcs", then when I actually started writing it, the title was "Elara of the Elves", then once the story actually started to gel, I changed the name to "Oruk Means Hard Work ( Read more... )