So, that plucky little sci-fi novel staring cybernetic vampire mermaids you slaved over for two years has, miraculously, found an agent, been sold to a publisher, rewritten, rewritten again, and finally got the green light from your editor. Congratulations! Your on-spec masterpiece has turned into your debut novel! You are now a professional author. Now, […]
Read more +Well, we’ve had another spectacularly awful week in American ethnic relations. On Saturday in Irving, Texas, already infamous for not knowing what a fucking clock looks like, gunman surrounded a mosque carrying long-rifles to “protest Syrian refugees,” in the wake of the Paris attacks, exactly none of which were actually involved in the Paris attacks. That […]
Read more +“But, but, but, we can’t let in any refugees because they might be hiding t-t-t-terrorists!” I’ve heard enough of this shit. Yeah, they might be. It’s very possible Daesh has tried to plant operatives inside the ranks of refugees fleeing their murderous rampage, hoping to cause EXACTLY the reaction people refusing to help are giving them. They […]
Read more +Hello, everyone! It’s been almost two weeks since The Ark launched. Sales are going fairly well, but could always be better. Christmas is coming up, just saying’. Anyway, it’s been a really busy couple of weeks around here. Wonderful folks all over the (primarily English speaking) world have asked me to share my thoughts, such […]
Read more +Most of you know me as either an author, comedian, or some unholy hybrid of the two. But what a lot of you may not know is that since 2002, I’ve been a licensed Life and Health agent. For the majority of that time, my focus has been on health insurance for the senior market, […]
Read more +It’s finally here. Release Day! Book Birthday! Whatever you want to call it, I woke up this morning as a published author. THE ARK is available now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and independent bookstores everywhere. If you preordered your copy, (thank you, thank you, thank you) it should be arriving today or soon thereafter. […]
Read more +Wow, okay, it’s starting to get real around here. If you’re new around these parts, my debut novel, THE ARK, is being published next Tuesday, November 3rd. It’s a murder-mystery set on a generation ship one month from arriving at its destination. A “Sealed Airlock” thriller, to coin a phrase. This is, to say the […]
Read more +Yesterday, the tortured soul of the late, disgraced U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy finally transcended into the afterlife, now that he is no longer the most embarrassing thing to come out of the state of Wisconsin. That title passed to two-term Governor and former Republican Presidential candidate Scott Walker, whose soul will now be damned to walk the […]
Read more +One final thought on the whole Sad/Rabid Puppies and Hugo affair. Over the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of new Voter ID laws being pushed in the states, including my home of WI. The reasons certain politicians introduce the laws are simple and obvious attempts to disenfranchise voting blocks such as poor, minority, […]
Read more +“Okay,” you’re saying, “That’s the most click-baity title I’ve ever seen. He just stuffed it with hashtags.” Yeah, a little, but hear me out. It all comes together by the end, I promise. Over the weekend, I was fortunate to be one of the handful of survivors of the 73rd WorldCon in Spokane. Between the […]
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