Some of you might have noticed a long silence from me. Many will be grateful. But now I'm back! I just spent the whole of October on a road trip covering New England in the Fall and a batch of Canadian cities. Exhausted! If you want to visit New England in the Fall, you just have …
I made it. Sixty-six years old! Sixty-six! And counting. So how does it feel? I asked myself that last year. The answer's pretty much the same as then... It feels like when I was younger. You know -- 65, 64...? But a year ago, I hadn't published any novels and here I am, finalizing …
NEW MUST-HAVE PARADISI CHRONICLES RELEASES (details below) As my regular readers know, my JANUS PARADISI series takes place in an open-source sci-fi universe. A what? Essentially, a group of authors agreed on the backstory and main features of a time and place where all action will occur, then write their own stories within those parameters. These stories …
Someone pointed out that I never post about my acting. There are a few good reasons... Stage As my mother's Alzheimer's ate away at her over the past few years, I could not commit to a play being staged months in the future. During those years, I daily expected a call requiring urgent travel …
Over the past couple of weeks, I've been running an Instafreebie promotion (where science fiction readers sign up to my newsletter and receive a free copy of my novel, "FACES OF JANUS"). Then Google Alerts notified me that the novel was available on a few pirate sites. I checked and found that one site claimed not …
KINDLE/NOOK AND NOVELS GIVEAWAY COMPETITION The contest I announced last week is now over and the winners' names will be released next week. So keep those fingers crossed. REVERSALS (Apologies to followers who received a draft copy of this post, sent in error last week. And this contains an update.) It's well known that book reviews are important to readers making …
Enter to Win a Summer Bundle of Sci-Fi Novels PLUS a New eReader! Today, I have a fun surprise I’d like to share with you. I’ve teamed up with space opera science fiction authors to give away a huge collection of novels to 2 lucky winners, PLUS a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet to the …
I'm offering Faces Of Janus free for a couple of weeks for sci-fi fans' summer reading enjoyment. (Grab it here or click the image below.) Writing the short descriptive blurb for the promotion was hard. (Hell, I took 60,000 words to tell the story and now you want it in 70 words?) You see, there …
With a roll of the drums... Drrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....... BOOM! NEW COVER! I described my two newbie cover design mistakes in my previous post: genre-specific features and trilogy consistency. So let's move on. Spoiler warning, more confessions... I found the original "Janus Challenge" cover conveyed an optimistic wistfulness as the ship headed for the wormhole. I loved it. BUT... as …
Cover Confession Time Newbie mistake #1: "Faces of Janus" was my first published book. If you've read it (thank you and I hope you enjoyed it), you'll see how the two-faced image represented the JCorp logo, the lead characters' internal conflicts, the deceptions encountered, and the disguises adopted. But if you haven't read the book …
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