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Read More May the Fourth Be With YouSome of you may know about my Spelljammer fanfiction the Toy Soldier Saga. For those who don’t, it has a special place in my heart for many reasons. The first is that I love the Spelljammer D&D campaign setting. I think it’s an amazing amount of fun! A few characters that I played in that […]
Read More Pity You Can’t Publish It*ALL TIMES ARE IN PDT! FOR EDT, ADD 3 HOURS! FOR LONDON TIME, ADD 8 HOURS!* Sarah Buhrman, Rebekah Dodson, Kayla Kirby, and Diane Morrison invite you to join them and many other amazing indie authors to celebrate their new May releases! In addition, many of these authors are participating in the Kindle Storyteller competition, […]
Read More The Storytellers: Celebrating May New Releases!Well, I suppose I’m nothing if not amazing under pressure! After last night’s blog post, I promptly took a nap because I was exhausted (one of the reasons I figured I was not going to make my deadline; that and the expanded story). Then, as many writers do, I woke up at eleven-thirty at night […]
Read More Ha! I Made My Deadline After All!If I have one big flaw as a writer (indeed, as a participant in life!) it’s that I’m terrible for deadlines. I’m the one who streaks in to work at the bell (and sometimes a couple of minutes after the bell). I’m the one who always did my homework the night before it was due […]
Read More Not Making My DeadlineWell, it’s clear that space opera is making a comeback! It’s too bad they don’t seem to notice that none of these themes are new. Thanks to their folkloric storytelling and galaxy-spanning scale, “space operas” have always been near to science fiction’s heart. Even the chilliest of them – Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men, […]
Read More Space Opera is Taking Humanity to its LimitsHere are the top 17 candidates for the Canadian Space Agency’s astronaut training program! Men and women from all over the country; doctors, soldiers, pilots, scientists. Here’s one job with no glass ceiling. 😉 Also, I really loved this graphic and had to use it in a blog post (courtesy Canadian Space Agency). Astronauts are […]
Read More Canadian AstronautsI hear this a lot from other writers. “OMG, I have to stop writing the current story I’m working on and write a new one because it’s screaming at me to be written!” I used to have real problems with this too. The end result, of course, is that you never actually finish anything. Well, […]
Read More How to Keep Your New Stories from Taking Over Your Old OnesSome possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer. The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow or cease, the pillars that define […]
Read More How Western Civilization Could CollapseThe conditions of the contest I have entered prevent me from posting the title of my sci-fi story, which is going to drop for my Patrons tomorrow! This will be a charged post. Support my Patreon here!
Read More Dropping Tomorrow at Patreon: My Sci-Fi Story