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I’ve been sending out short stories over the past several months to those literary magazines which I thought might be likely to publish one of my stories.  This has required that I read two things […]

I’m a scientist by training, and perhaps even by inclination.  I’ve always liked reading true-life stories, stories about things that actually happened.  Growing up, I read some fiction, but most […]

I was watching an episode of Antiques Roadshow a few days ago and an interesting phenomenon occurred to me.  The things that people bring to the Roadshow to be appraised […]

I’ve heard over the past few weeks about a new wrinkle in publishing: books in which the ink disappears in a few weeks or months after you start reading.  That’s […]

Back on September 27, 2011, I blogged about the TV sit-com, The Big Bang Theory.  I suggested I might continue to watch it in reruns, but left the promise open.  […]

I heard a very interesting talk the other day at one of the regular meetings of SouthWest Writers.  The talk was given by Johnny D. Boggs, an accomplished western writer […]

Well, they say that rules are made to be broken.  Actually, rules are made to be followed and broken only at your own (and possibly someone else’s) risk.  This is […]

There’s a slow but inexorable shift taking place in writing.  Actually this shift encompasses more than just writing because it has to do with information in all its forms and […]

It’s good to be back at the computer now after having been away for a couple of weeks.  Last week I took a trip to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, […]

I’ve been hard at work for the past month on the rough draft of the third in my trilogy of science-fiction novels.  I call the series “The Anthanian Imperative,”  and each book […]

I noticed a week or so ago on the website Squidoo a list of the top ten books read in the last fifty years.  They gave a listing of the […]

Have you ever read a book, especially a new one, then wrote a review of it?  With the ease of publication by electronic means now available that results in new […]