Tag: Fiction
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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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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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‘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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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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Shakespeare in 1923
I’ve mentioned Taylor Sheridan’s 1923 before. The end of this, his second prequel to Yellowstone, just aired (or streamed?), and, by all that is holy, I can’t say enough about it. I could not believe it when I found out this was going to be the last episode of the series. “There’s no way Sheridan…
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WonderCon 2025
This is my 3rd year attending WonderCon, for me the first Con of the season at the end of March, and somehow it just wasn’t as much fun this year. Not necessarily the Con’s fault, but that of my own attitude. One remarkable thing about this year’s Con was the simultaneous presence in the hotel…
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The Con’s the Thing
Why do I go to cons? One reason is to hang out with like-minded people or at least with those who share many of my enthusiasms. But I can do those things at home. Some folks go to meet their heroes, writers they admire, but I’m old and I met Bradbury, Ellison, Sturgeon, Herbert, Zelazny,…
Musings of a Restless Mind 