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This past April I attended the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference in Colorado Springs with the main purpose of pitching my science-fiction novel to an agent.  In particular, to a New York […]

Over the past several months we’ve been treated to several movies whose premiere was not what the movie makers wanted it to be.  That is to say, the movie didn’t bring […]

While doing a revision of my first science fiction novel several years ago, I came across a somewhat unusual situation with regard to two very specific English words.  One word, encircled, […]

I’ve been on vacation for the past ten days, and got back on Tuesday, June 25.  Great time.  I took an Amtrak train trip all over the western part of the […]

To me, the only thing more surprising about the current scandal about government spying on US citizens has been the surprise of US citizens about government spying on US citizens.  Of […]

This may not be my own invention, but I’ve never seen any concept like it in all the study of writing I’ve done over the past fifteen years or so, […]

Most of you who read this blog know that I write science fiction, and that includes short stories as well as novels.  Many of my stories involve aliens that either come […]

For this week’s post, I want to return to a favorite topic of mine, the presence of life in the rest of our galaxy: where is it? On the one hand, […]

The face of publishing is changing.  At least that’s what they tell me.  As an unpublished author I guess I don’t have much say in how things change or stay […]

I just returned from the 2013 Pikes Peak Writers Conference.  (Here’s a question for trivia lovers: Why is the name is spelled Pikes Peak?  Shouldn’t it be Pike’s?)  Great place to go for […]

I finished reading Michio Kaku’s book, Physics of the Future, a few days ago, and I thought I’d make a few comments on it here.  Dr. Kaku, a theoretical physicist by […]

I’m reading a memoir right now.  I don’t normally read memoir or biography anymore, at least not in the past thirty years or so.  But the book I’m reading is a […]