A Tribute to Cat
Today’s post isn’t about writing, it is, rather, something I wrote. It was almost 20 years ago when a friend said I needed a pet and convinced me to go to the annual radio station sponsored adoption fair at the local pet store. I am a dog person, but was then living in a place [...]
The Death of Books, Newspapers, Apple Pie and Everything?
Everyone is talking about the death of books and of traditional publishing and publishers. We watched newspapers struggle in the wake of information readily available on the Internet, now we’re seeing publishing houses scramble in the wake of Amazon’s print-on-demand and Author’s Centers services, etc. I had a conversation about this with a friend of [...]
You’ve Got to Read
I was staying at my mother’s cabin in Idaho while working on the first draft of one of my novels, Guardian Mosaic. (No, it’s not out, yet. Hopefully this year.) I was also doing a lot of reading, plowing through Orson Scott Card’s massive five volume Homecoming Saga, among other things. My mother asked me [...]





