Resident Alien and Righteous Gemstones New Seasons—Rocky Start
Watched first episode of season 2 of Resident Alien last night. The first season was enjoyable if a bit rough story wise. But episode 1 of season 2 felt like 8 different writers wrote skits and then someone stuck them all in the same episode with the only connection being they were characters in the […]
What If You Know The Moment Of Your Death?
What is more valuable than money? Time. That was the premise for Burners, one of my favorite books. After all, we’re already seeing the discrepancy in life expectancies between the rich and poor grow. As we move forward and expensive medical procedures, especially in terms of nanotechnology advance, the gap will grow larger. Burners is […]
Notes to a Midlist Author (All authors actually)
I wrote this in response to a blog post by a midlist author, Michael Mammay posted here where he talks about the lessons he’s learned in the last 4 years as a midlist science fiction author. These lessons apply to all authors working with a traditional publisher. Here is the blog. So: You have a […]
Area 51: Modern Myth? Or Something Else?
I first heard of Area 51 in the early 90s. My ex-wife was an Army helicopter pilot and deploying across the country with her unit to the National Training Center in southern California. She mentioned how they had to divert around the airspace west of Nellis AFB and that it was highly classified. That piqued […]
Book of the Day: Nightstalkers: The Rift
Nightstalkers: The Rift Who are the Special Operations who take care of things that go bump in the night? The Nightstalkers. Ever since the first Rift opened in Area 51 in 1947, via the infamous Demon Core from the Manhattan Project, exposing the world to deadly beings of pure energy, only the Nightstalkers have stood […]
Wrath of Man and Archive. A Miss and a Hit
I stopped Wrath of Man about halfway through and went to sleep. I usually enjoy Jason Statham films as mindless, fun entertainment. There was nothing fun about this movie. I’m not sure why he took this role, which is out of character. He was so serious and brutal there was nothing redeeming. And I never […]
The History of Time Travel—Low Budget, High Concept
This is a short movie, slightly over an hour, that is fiction presented as a documentary. It is, frankly, quite brilliant. It is one of those movies you’re either going to love for what it does, or hate and think it’s nonsense. As a writer, I would rather have someone hate my book than not […]
Stop Thinking Someone’s Going To Rescue You
Dawn comes this day with thousands of drivers trapped in freezing temperatures on I-95 in Virginia. A number of circumstances collided to produce this; one of them being a lack of plow drivers and emergency personnel due to record Covid numbers. How many of those trapped drivers took to the road unprepared for an emergency? […]
Welcome to 2022. Free Books and Key Information to Start the New Year
I hope the New Year finds you well and safe. To welcome in 2022, I’ve put together some new deals and also have new timely, titles on the horizon. New York Minute, the first book in the Will Kane Green Beret series is free today and tomorrow (3 and 4 Jan). Independence Day (Time Patrol) […]