Why the Rapture?

As I sat working in the yard this morning, I started thinking about the Rapture hype that we’ve been seeing for the past week. Clearly, most people believe it’s a bunch of hooey. But I have seen billboards proclaiming judgement day’s imminent arrival. Somebody is paying for that ad space,… Continue reading

Neanderthal Swan Song Released

My novel Neanderthal Swan Song has been released. It will be available for Kindle in the Amazon store and for Nook (and anything else reading epub files) from Barnes and Noble as soon as both sites finish chewing on the files. Meanwhile, you can get a copy right here, on… Continue reading

Almost There

Huge day for Neanderthal Swan Song copy-edits today. I finished 25 chapters, leaving a mere 15 more to go. Things are looking very good in terms of releasing the novel in electronic form this week. I do seem to be catching a number of bad typos that I somehow missed… Continue reading

Goodbye Truck

When I took my daughter to the high school yesterday for a Cross Country team meeting, little did I know that I would never pull my truck into my garage again. I am driving eastbound in the leftmost of three lanes. A car pulls out of the grocery store parking… Continue reading

LepreCon 37 days 2 and 3

Saturday, I sat on a panel with Sam Sykes and Will Shetterly on working-class heroes. It was a fun panel with three opinions on the subject that overlapped quite a bit, but were definitely not the same. I think I sat on a panel with Will a few years ago…. Continue reading

LepreCon 37 Day 1

It was a warm afternoon in Tempe for LepreCon 37. I arrived at the Tempe Mission Palms after 1:00PM and picked up my packet, including my participant ribbon and badge. My reading was scheduled for 2:30PM in the boardroom. C.A. Dawson, a writer out of Victoria, Canada. I read from… Continue reading

Neanderthal Swan Song Back Cover Copy

The world of anthropology would have been excited when a perfectly preserved Neanderthal body is discovered in a Greenlandic glacier, if authorities had allowed the details out. When an American anthropologist involved in the excavation is denied access to the body, she uses an illicit tissue sample as source material… Continue reading

Neanderthal Swan Song Progress

Now that Accretion has been released for Kindle on Amazon and in EPUB on Barnes and Noble my focus has returned to the novel Neanderthal Swan Song. (I should note that Accretion is available in EPUB and MOBI formats on my website without geographic restrictions.) I am about 10% of… Continue reading

Updated Accretion Cover

Made some minor changes, feedback indicated confusion from the subtitle, so I changed it. Also, slightly different font, mainly because I couldn’t find the one I used last time. *shrug*