Live event tonight!
Tonight from 9-11 PM Central Time in the US, I’ll be live on Talk in the Night. Live. That’s a bit unnerving. No editing, no post-production clean up to get rid of the awkward pauses and verbal stumbles. Drop an F bomb and it’s out there for posterity. No pressure. The host, Paranormal Phil, and…Read More
Book Review: Never by Ken Follett
Not truly sci fi, but…could be. Very near future. Maybe present day. This book is a page-turner. It was very hard to put down. I’ve read some of Follett’s work before and generally loved them. This was no different. My wife also loves Follett and I’m grateful that he lives in a completely different country,…Read More
10 Questions with Fern Brady
Fern Brady operates at full throttle. She is the CEO and Owner of Inklings Publishing (my publisher). She is a polymath with careers in teaching and real estate. Oh, yeah, she’s also an author, and is the head of the Houston Writer’s Guild. Full. Throttle. Her debut novel, United Vidden, came out in 2020 and…Read More
NBC Radio House of Mystery Interview
Tonight my interview with Alan R. Warren and David North-Martino airs at 9:00 PM. If you remember, Al is the guy who called me out for a comment I made here regarding interviewers not reading books, blogs, etc., before they do an interview and are therefore stuck with “standard” questions. Not so with these two….Read More
Sci Fi Saturday Night
It’s Sunday morning, that means that my interview with Sci Fi Saturday Night is now live on their site. It was a wide-ranging and fun conversation with The Dome and Captain Cam. We talked about music, martial arts, writing, Dreamforge magazine, and, of course, SPARK. I was surprised at how quickly the time passed. They…Read More
Siren Radio
Yesterday, my interview on Siren Radio went live. I had the pleasure of speaking with the host, Alex Lewczuk, and co-hosts Cathy Manso and Jessica Burtis. It was a lot of fun and topics ranged from NASA and the space program to our favorite role playing games. (I’m a big Witcher, Mass Effect, and Skyrim…Read More
10 Questions with Alex Perry
I was privileged enough to be connected with Alex Perry’s writing/critique group through Houston Writer’s Guild a few years ago. Although we’ve never met in person, I’m a huge fan of her work and her honesty. She was the first person willing to give me honest feedback – “It’s boring. It’s like watching someone watch…Read More
Book Review: The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester published this book in 1956. Let that sink in a bit. It’s over 65 years old. It would have long since retired were it a human. Happily, it’s a book. The copyright has been renewed a few times and Neil Gaiman wrote an introduction in the version I read. That’s impressive given Gaiman’s…Read More
10 Questions with Mack Little
I met Mack about four years ago through the Houston Writer’s Guild and promptly fell in love with her prose. I’ve reviewed her Daughter of Hades book on this blog. We both worked at Inkling Publishing’s table during Comicpalooza last year and I witnessed something I never expected. A young woman, I’m guessing 23, came…Read More
Shooting it raw
A few weeks ago, my publicist, the amazing Mickey Mickelson, set me up for a podcast called Shooting it Raw, with host, Ran Elfassy. I was a little hesitant. Ran’s based in Hong Kong – quite literally the other side of our planet. The concept intrigued me: no canned questions, no script, I just sent…Read More