Early New Years Resolution for 2014

It’s time for me to ramp up the writing in 2014. I’ve assembled a list of goals that I would like to accomplish in 2-14. they are: 1. Finish edits on “A Darkling Nine” by end of February and start circulating to agents. 2. Write first draft of “Proxima Centauri”… Continue reading

Sale: Electric Jesus

Back when I was still participating in Codex Writers Group, we had a thing called Weekend Warrior. Each person had a set amount of time to write a flash story (under 1000 words) and turn it around for voting. This particular story, Electric Jesus, turned out to not be a… Continue reading

Book Sale for Phoenix Rescue Mission Starts Today

For the third consecutive year, I will be donating all proceeds from sales of my indie-published works this week to Phoenix Rescue Mission. This charity feeds the homeless of Phoenix, Arizona. I do this the last full week of September so I have time to get the money to PRM… Continue reading

Monday Status Report – 9/9/13

I completed two short stories in the past week. One is about a scientific mission to a collision between two neutron stars – something I call a maelstrom. The other was intended to be for Neil Clarke’s Cyborg anthology, but the word count ended up being outside the guidelines. I… Continue reading

The Problem with SFF’s Diversity Discussion

There is and has been for a long time a heated discussion on diversity in science fiction and fantasy, or rather the lack of diversity in the community. Historically the readership/fan base for this kind of material has been straight white male, with authors of the same sort. There seems… Continue reading

Something to Share With You from Frederik Pohl

Frederik Pohl, the last of the great original science fiction writers, passed away today. In a futuristic way, I learned of this via Twitter as I was cooking on the grill. I wanted to share something with everyone. On May 8th of this year, I had been reading I. Asimov,… Continue reading

Monday Status Report – 812/13

While the business side took a bit of a rest this past week while my parents were in town, I did manage to start scraping the cobwebs away from my short fiction writing skills. I finished a slightly longer than flash fiction story called Old Rock Stars last week and… Continue reading

Wednesday Writer – Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt is an extremely personable man whom I met for the first time at LepreCon 39 in may of 2013. We chatted a number of times over the course of the convention and we got along really well. Our sense of story also seems to be similar. So, I… Continue reading

Potpourri – Random Thoughts 7/16/13

Novel In Progress It has been a hectic few weeks here at Entropy Central. Business side has been keeping me busy, so Proxima Centauri, the sequel to Rigel Kentaurus, had to be put on hold. On top of the client work, I’m also teaching a summer class that consumes too… Continue reading