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  • Deep Into The Realm

    The research for my new scifi book (working title is ‘Joe’) is taking me deep into the realm of science, to depths where the scientific imagination begins to bleed into scientific reality. People are working on some fantastic things that promise to amaze us. Asimov’s robots may be a part of our lives before New…

  • And then this happened…

    There’s a homework eating dog loose on the WordPress server and it ate one of my drafts. It was all about self-publishing and Digital Rights Managing. I’m going to rewrite and publish, soon. From now on I’m saving copies of all my drafts to my local drive. Has this happened to anyone else?

  • Breaktime

    Recently I made a promise to myself that I’d be careful about the time I have left on the planet. There’s a lot I want to do, several books that I want to write, so I decided that I’d make sure to engage consciously in all my activities. I decided that I had to be…

  • Nearly Open Source

    I’ve written here before about the mind-expansion that happens when I do the research for one of my stories and I’d like to share some of my experiences with you. My current subject is a story about an Artificial Intelligence (an AI to the scientific community) so I’ve been doing the requisite reading. Current book is…

  • Mayday!Mayday! Anybody listening?

    I’m a shy and  unambitious man trying to find a way to live in a world full of craziness and ignorance. I think that I’m a natural science fiction writer; I still have a child’s uncertainty about the world. For me, the writing’s the easy part. Hard work for sure, but usually enjoyable and always…

  • Second Thoughts

    about my first book. It was a remarkable experience and I hope I learned some things. We’ll see, ’cause it’s not going to be my last. The file on the sequel to The Obeahman’s Dagger is open as I write this; my working title is The Brooklyn Museum Exhibit and it follows the evil Dagger as…

  • Life Goes On

    And so must I. So here I am, back at work; actually, I never stopped working but I did abandon any marketing effort with Obeahman’s Dagger, my first full-length novel, that I self-published with CreateSpace, Amazon’s print-on-demand service for self-publishing. This means of course, that I’m responding to the marketing challenge with fresh ideas and energy.…

  • Marketing 103

    This is a short post to record my decision to go with Amazon’s Marketing Sevices version of Google’s adwords. At any rate, that’s how I think about it. Blogging is a strange activity; you’re communicating with no  one in particular, throwing your  thoughts out into the black hole of hyperspace. Nothing comes out. Not even…

  • Free Book Reviews

    Got your attention, did I? What got me thinking about this topic was the recent flap over Amazon’s rejection of a book review. There even appears to be a petition asking Amazon to change their policy in this regard. This is important stuff, especially when you think about how vital a book review is to a self-published…

  • The Font of Confusion

    To begin, a definition — font : a receptacle for the water used in a baptism; a fount or source; a set of type of one particular face and size. One of the most difficult things for me as a self-published author was deciding which font to use for the book that I was going to…