Another year, another con complete. As I wrote last week, I attended my third Farpoint con. Once again, I got to hang out for a weekend with like-minded geeks, sit on a couple of very interesting panels, and even signed and sold a couple of books. My favorite part of attending the con as an…
Tag: scifi
The Challenge of Balancing Multiple Worlds
When you work as a creator on more than one project at a time. As a storyteller, one of the things I take great pride in is my ability to do worldbuilding. Among my already published works, I’ve created 5 different worlds. In two cases, entirely different galaxies. The rules of my worlds have many…
Have You Purchased One of my Books?
Hi everybody! This is the link to my published books. I appreciate all the support I have received thus far.I’d like to request, whether you have purchased a Kindle book, paperback, or audiobook of mine previously – please purchase another. (If you have not purchased one of my works – please consider doing so!) Also…
A Little Knowledge Goes a Long Way
Even in fiction, a little knowledge helps make connections. Have you ever read a book, watched a TV show or movie, and come across something so implausible that it ruined the story? Lots of fantasy and sci-fi are built on largely impossible things. Superheroes aren’t real, faster-than-light travel violates current physics, most people can’t do…
Must it be Quality or Quantity?
Why can’t it be both quality AND quantity? I am writing and publishing more books in 2021 than I ever have before. In total, I’m publishing 6 books this year. Three have already come out – the fourth will be out before the end of August. Two more will be published before the end of…
What Do I Name This Thing?
Sometimes it takes me a while to find the name. When I first began work on The Source Chronicles, it was my unnamed Fantasy project. I began my glossary so I could track the characters, and I called it The Source. This would, in turn, lead me to find the plot, whereby my mysterious sorcerer…
How Am I Breaking from Typical Story Tropes?
It’s fun to break away from the typical story tropes. For years I have wanted to write a sci-fi “space opera”. An epic along the lines of a Star Wars or a Star Trek, but as unique as I could make it. One of the problems you face with these things is that there have…
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