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Mar.28.2012
Excerpt from a Speech about The Space Industry and Science Fiction, which I originally wrote for a Star Trek celebrity*, and then adapted for myself when I began speaking on behalf of the space industry:
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"But what about those who say that our space program is a luxury - that what we...
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Mar.20.2012
photo: front cover, from its Amazon page
Another post in my series of critiques and reviews of the short stories in the volume. The hope here is that the reader will check out the authors reviewed positively here, as many of them are still publishing. The other blog posts can...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally posted 09 September 2011...
In my Script Writing class, I was asked to do two things I had never done before:
1. Describe myself as though I were a character in a play in only three words
2. Explain my backstory in a single sentence
With only precious seconds to think of my answers, I...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally posted 02 September 2011...
Like Fawkes from Harry Potter, or any phoenix in Fantasy literature, we all traverse through various cycles in our lives, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, and all those awkward stops in between that don't seem to make any sense. Each cycle unto...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally posted on 26 August 2011...
Ignoring the prequel series of Star Wars entirely, Threepio has gold plating over his circuits. He's shiny, prim, and rather feminine for a male-voiced droid. He panics, over-exaggerates, and doesn't do much good except translating Artoo's beeps and whistles...
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Mar.07.2012
Originally written 19 August 2011...
I've wanted to be a dozen different things growing up: Jedi Knight, astronaut, teacher, marine biologist, secret agent, and professional baseball player just to name a few. Seriously, how many phases did I go through as a child? Granted, I'm now an adult and I...
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Feb.22.2012
Another week, another excerpt from my draft of Black Earth: Dark Masquerade. This scene takes place near the beginning of the book and introduces us to the situation Nathan Pierce - the main character of the series - finds himself in weeks after the events of the second book in the...
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Feb.16.2012
Three anniversaries of note are being celebrated. They're worth celebrating, as they rank among my favorites, so I, for one, will celebrate them.
First, two golden anniversaries. "A Wrinkle In Time", Madeleine L'Engle. I didn't read it fifty years ago. Was just five. Probably first read...
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Feb.15.2012
In my efforts to be more transparent with my writing process, I've decided that from now on, each week I will post an excerpt of draft work from something I'm currently working on. I am going to try my best to make this a weekly occurrence, that way you can all get a taste of my writing style...
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Feb.15.2012
Well, today's the day: my science fiction novel Twin-Bred is free (for Kindle) on Amazon today and tomorrow, Wednesday Feb. 15th and Thursday Feb. 16th.
Some authors have found that if a book has better reviews than sales, a few days of giving it away somehow takes it to that much-sought...
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