Ok, I’ll admit it. I am often just a few cards short of a deck and can wander off into ‘pixie land’ with my crazy ideas and off the wall notions of reality. But in recent months I have become underwhelmed by the treatment independent authors are receiving from online publishers and retailers. Many a …
Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle Seven Point Eight: The most powerful number in the universe. The number that connects everything. A physicist begins a quest to measure the soul but soon finds himself drawn into the world of the enigmatic Max Richardson, where research is sold to the military at the highest bid. However, …
Dead Men Evolution hasn’t made a lot of difference as far as men are concerned. The end of the chase has changed little over the eons, as he drags his woman back to his cave in the belief he needs to spread his genes. When she rebuffs his advances, he resorts immediately to violence and …
Blood on the Orchid When a fifty-thousand-dollar orchid disappears, it sets in motion events that take four lives, destroy a political career and yet, re-unite a family. Nothing attracts the ire of Wolfgang Fenstemier more quickly than dashing the dreams of a young damsel—especially when she happens to be an orphan. Thus, a good friend …
The Legend of Sasquatch In this action-packed character novel, Sasquatch is not the mythical creature rumored to haunt the forests of North America. He is a young Texan named Clint Buchanan (pronounced “Buck Hannon”) who prowls the streets of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the late-1970s. Clint seems to have it all–herculean size and strength, …
Noah Zarc – Mammoth Trouble Noah lives for piloting spaceships through time, dodging killer robots and saving Earth’s animals from extinction. Life couldn’t be better. However, the twelve-year-old time traveler soon learns it could be a whole lot worse. His mom is abducted and taken to thirty-first century Mars; his dad becomes stranded in …
Late on a Thursday afternoon I was scheduled to have a root canal. I’d never had one before and was hardly looking forward to the experience. Turns out it really wasn’t bad at all. Next day I was leaving campus when I encountered a colleague coming in and we got to talking and she said, …
You have to know your main character almost as well as you know yourself. If not, your story will be missing a vital ingredient. With all the resources that are available on the internet, it is very easy for an aspiring writer, to be overwhelmed with all the information. There is so much advice from …
It may be of interest for some to learn that a book can start from the smallest and silliest idea. For me, the following brief and almost non-sensical notes began the process for what has now become my latest book, Milo Moon. From memory, I wrote these notes more than ten years ago, and then …
This may seem like a silly ‘sour grapes’ attitude, but I have my reasons for being happy and content, plodding along on my own. Many reasons in fact, but most of them revolve around the fact that I react very badly to doing what someone tells me to do. Or in other words, I am …
I was toying with a silly idea a few weeks ago, and started clacking away on my keyboard. At first I thought it might be a fun 500 word blog, or a start on a little essay to store away and forget. However, for some silly reason, I looked at it, read it, and then …
For nearly forty years I have had a story in my head. One of those stories that never leaves, and continually seeks answers to mostly unanswerable questions. A childhood friend who had such an influence on my life, that to this day, my memories of him are as vivid as the day they were made. …
