Category: Fiction
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Book Selling & Mysterious AI
Although my wife and I have published ebooks before, after going to several SF Conventions the last 3 years, I decided I should also publish my first novel in paperback—maybe even hardback and audio eventually. When I did, mysterious things happened. I published Advance Guards on Amazon, the big boy in indie publishing because, well…
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‘Advance Guards’: A Unique Family Saga in a Near-Future Setting
So I finally did it. I finished and published my first novel. It’s called Advance Guards, and if you want a sales pitch, go to the link and read the blurb. That link goes to the ebook, but there’s also a paperback version now. Yes, I’ve already published one book, A Geek’s Progress, but that’s…
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Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
I was able to attend San Diego’s famous Comic-Con this year, and at one of the mixers for creatives, someone asked, “Where do you get your ideas?” I didn’t have long enough to launch into a full explanation, but I’ll leave you this essay where Sharon explains it more thoroughly. Once my wife Sharon was…
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The Day The Bridge Broke
This is a story that Sharon wrote in 1973 that figures in how we met. Twilight. I like to go walking then. To think. To reflect. To imagine. To see things in a different light. Twilight. The difference between day and night. The middle of the coin, so to speak. No heads, no tails. No…
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Writer’s Cramp
This is a story from 1973, and I’m publishing it here as part of the story of how my wife and I got together. “Egor Simean awoke one morning to find himself transformed into a baby gorilla.” I looked at the typewriter with a certain satisfaction. Private dicking barely paid well enough to support my…
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Wanted: The Hollywood Guide to New York City
I know this will come as a shock to the denizens of New York City and even nearby New Jersey, but 90% of the country has no idea how you live or even where you live. Yes, we all have vague ideas about New York City being a big port on the Northeast Coast, and…
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The Russians are Stealing the North Pole!
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geologic Survey have reported on the latest position of the magnetic north pole, and it’s quite disturbing. See News Now (SNN) anchor Ami Gonnacry, interviewed esteemed scientist August Peabody. Gonnacry: “Dr. Peabody could you give us some background on this latest threat to life…
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Mother Inc.
“Is this where you…? I mean we’d like to see about a child,” said the woman’s voice. There was no need for confusion. The kiosk was clearly labeled. It was going to be another case of Green’s rule: “If someone sounds like a bozo, he’s going to act like a bozo. Mother initiated the conversation…
Musings of a Restless Mind 