I’m flying to Wyoming tomorrow to participate in the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop, which is funded by NASA.  The best description of what it’s about can be found in its tag line: improving science literacy through words and media. Rock on!  Also, … [Read more...]

10:00-11:00 Marvel X-Men— Following Second Coming, Marvel’s merry mutants are unable to catch a quick breather. As Curse of the Mutants begins, there’s no telling what the vampires have in store for the X-Men...or is there? You’ve got questions & these … [Read more...]

So, little dreams do come true. I’ve always been a fan of Wolverine and Jubilee.  Some of you know that better than others.  If you had asked me, years ago, whether or not I’d ever get a chance to write a story about them that would get published by Marvel … [Read more...]

We’ve got storms!  I love it!  Daisy doesn’t mind, either, but that might be because she’s beginning to hint for ice cream. Also, this Saturday at 8:00 PM I’ll be on ISIS Paranormal Radio. Please, call in with questions! … [Read more...]

...are growing things!  I’ve mentioned a couple times, here and on Twitter, that I’m trying to grow a garden this year.  I’ve got some tomatoes planted in the ground down by the old farmhouse, but I’m also experimenting with container … [Read more...]

I trot these out every now and then so that you can get an accurate idea of what my own personal deadline hell looks like.  Enjoy. … [Read more...]

A note I wrote to myself in the manuscript, that I had forgotten all about: “Next, she detects.” Which may not seem like a big deal, but I promise you, it has made my morning a lot easier. … [Read more...]

Fantastic interview from the Paris Review with E. B. WHITE: INTERVIEWER Do you have any warm-up exercises to get going? WHITE Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer—he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. … [Read more...]

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the … [Read more...]

What about the creative state?  In it a man is taken out of himself.  He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach.  He mixes this thing with his normal experiences, and out of the mixture he … [Read more...]