• What Can “The Music Man” Tell Us About Writing?

    Have you ever seen the musical comedy “The Music Man”?  Either the stage production or the movie?  At least one movie channel on DirectTV, a TV provider through the internet, […]

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  • Choosing a New Book

    How do you go about choosing a new book to read?  Do you go to a bookstore?  Borrow one from a friend?  (And never give it back?)  Check one out […]

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  • A Review of the Book “Inner Space” by Jakub Szamalek

    This is a review of the book, “Inner Space,” by Jakub Szamalek, with the translation from Polish to English by Kasia Beresford.  The book takes place largely on the International […]

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  • The Logic of Other Worlds

    As I was watching on television a few days ago one of the first three Star Wars films to be made (they’re now numbered 4, 5, and 6) I kind […]

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  • A Few Questions

    As a scientist and a virologist of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have an inordinate tendency to ask questions about science, virology, science fiction and perhaps a few other phases […]

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  • EXPLORER Now Avaliable

    My first book, a science fiction novel about several explorers who travel to a beautiful new world which they’ve nicknamed the “Blue Planet” because of its color, has been available […]

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  • EXPLORER Now Available

    Now!  My first book, my first novel, and my first science-fiction novel—EXPLORER : The First Book in The Anthanian Imperative Trilogy—is now available for purchase.  You should be able to […]

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  • Book Review: Eyes on the Horizon, by Carrie Lynn Fazzolari

    I met Carrie Lynn Fazzolari at the Wildacres Writer’s Conference in 2010, and we have been friends on Facebook for most of the time after that.  Her book, Eyes on […]

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  • Tools of a Writer

    I’ve seen a few comments on social media in the past few weeks concerning writing and what makes a good writer and good written copy.  Most of what I’ve read […]

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  • The Adventure Story

    I just finished re-reading The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, the precursor to the well-known Lord of the Rings trilogy.  The Hobbit is an interesting book, filled with elves, goblins, trolls, […]

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  • To Quit or Not to Quit

    As someone who has come to writing lately—and I’m talking here about writing fiction, especially science fiction novels and short stories—after a career spent doing scientific research and writing scientific […]

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  • The First Writer

    Who was the first writer?  That is, who was the first person to set down on some surface—a rock, a leaf, a cave wall, in short, some surface that could […]

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