The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 2017 Second Best Reading Challenge and the Hard Core Sci-Fi Reading Challenge. Before I read this book, I not only saw the movie (excellent,) I had the good fortune to see a video on YouTube that was a panel made up […]
Read More Book Review: The Martian by Andy WeirI am pretty happy with being traditionally published by Red Wheel / Weiser. They’re a good company. I liked my editor very much, and my publicist was excellent. I feel they did a great job with sales, promotion, and everything else. I got a few spots on some widely-syndicated radio shows and they promoted the […]
Read More The Indie Author Community is Awesome!The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. I had to struggle to determine what I was going to give this book as a rating. I can’t say it was a bad book, […]
Read More Book Review: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt VonnegutBloody Sunday by William W. Johnstone My rating: 4 of 5 stars So if you’ve been keeping track of my reviews, you’re probably thinking to yourself right now: “What, a Western? Doesn’t that break the pattern a little bit?” Okay, so it goes like this: I’m part of a writer’s group that meets at the […]
Read More Book Review: Bloody Sunday by William W. Johnstone & J.A. JohnstoneJust a reminder that this great community indie author event is happening RIGHT NOW! Come join a plethora of awesome authors for fun, sneak peaks, contests and giveaways! (I’ll be on tonight at 11:30 pm to 12:3o am). 🙂
Read More By Any Means Necessary is Happening Now!The Shadow of Saganami by David Weber My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the I Just Have to Read More of That Author Reading Challenge, the Military Spec-Fic Reading Challenge, the Giants of Genre: A Long Book Challenge, the Read the Sequel Reading Challenge, and the Space Opera Reading Challenge at Worlds Without […]
Read More Book Review: The Shadow of Saganami by David WeberI feature the technology of the James Webb telescope prominently in my near-future novel about asteroid mining in deep space, The Cloud: Who Will Get First Dibs on the Powerful James Webb Space Telescope? NASA has issued solicitation for science projects using the long-awaited and incredibly powerful successor to Hubble, which is scheduled to launch […]
Read More James Webb Telescope Taking Project ProposalsA Killer Logline is a Must Have During the old days of Hollywood, the studios had scripts piled high in their offices. The executives didn’t want to have to search through the scripts to find one they were interested in. So they had their assistants write a very brief synopsis of the plot on the spine of the script. […]
Read More Writing a Killer LoglineSo I figured it was time I talked a bit about my own writing, because I’m excited about it and I want other people to get excited about it! I’ve got a few irons in the fire right now: I’m working on two novels at the moment. The one I’m giving my most immediate attention […]
Read More A Note on Upcoming Projects!The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin
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