Tag: books
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Son of SilverCon IV AAR
Fortunately this didn’t quite happen to me, but it was close. Son of Silvercon, the last stop on my summer of cons, was July 19-21 in Las Vegas (actually, Henderson, but that’s just a jump to the left and then a step to the right). I’ll get to the Con in a moment, but the…
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A Writer’s Life, or You Don’t Know How Good You Have It
A while ago I suggested somewhat whimsically that I should write up what an aspiring writer’s life was like a half-century ago. In 1967, at 16 years old, I told my father I wanted to be a writer. He came back with a statistic that only 150 Americans make their living solely by freelance writing.…
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Begin…End…Begin Again
On June 17 I left for the beginning of my summer of Cons as I related in my last essay. On the train ride home, I sold another copy of Advance Guards to Brian and Tina, so, for those of you keeping score at home, I left with 27 books and came back with 5.…
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Where Have You Gone Frank Dadada-Oh?
I apologize to my readers, but William F. Buckley seems to have seized control of my travel-addled fingers and insists that I use obscure words in this post. I blame all that rocking on the train that seems to have scrambled my brain along with my sense of balance. When I was last seen, I…
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Coming to a Tornado Alley Near You
OK folks, in my never ending quest to pass the honor of The King of Bad Marketing™ on to somebody, anybody, else, I’ve been assured that all the right people advertise their appearances at conventions ahead of time (instead of afterwords as I have been doing). Therefore you are all officially on notice that I’ll…
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I’m Late. I’m Late!
Aargh, or whatever Charlie Brown used to say after Lucy pulled away the football. In preparation for my summer of cons, I published my second book of fiction That Has Such Creatures (only an ebook so far, but it’s on my todo list to make it a paperback before the end of next week, so…
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TusCon 52 AAR
TusCon 52 After Action Report The ironically named TusCon (a trick on people who misspell Tucson) holds a warm place in my heart because TusCon 4 in 1976 was the first SF Con I attended outside my home town of San Diego. Since this is my blog, I’m going to indulge in about 10 paragraphs…
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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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Playing to an Inside Straight: Introduction
This is a book Sharon started in 2000 but never finished. That really doesn’t matter as much as you might think since each chapter is self-contained. I’ll be posting the other chapters weekly. I decided to start writing this book today. It’s been kicking around upstairs in my head for several years now. Though not…
Musings of a Restless Mind 