So Many Ways to Outline
I've always been a writer who outlines. I got a lot better at it once I worked in Hollywood and learned how to "break a story". For an in-depth look at how that works check out my blog post called How I Plot. Point being, I'm a bit of a dinosaur, I like to outline the...
Why is Food So Hard?
I seem to be unable to cook with any degree of skill. So rather than actually eat anything sensible I listened to opera. In particular my favorite soprano in all the world, Kathleen Battle. So now all of you get to listen to opera too if you are so inclined....
Imperials Update!
Okay, I have definitive news, the fifth and final book in the Imperials series will be published on January 15, 2023. It's been a long journey with an unfortunate hiccup in the middle when my first publisher decided to cancel the series after the third book. I was...
Voting: Yeah, It Matters.
I keep seeing Tweets about how voting doesn't matter. Voting doesn't cut it. What's the point? Look, the system is rigged, no doubt about that, allowing for minority rule, but it can be overcome with sheer numbers & there are more of us than there are of them. And...
Apologies… Maybe?
So for months I have been inundated by these emails through my website with random people offering to up the traffic to my site. (yeah, I know I've been terrible about updating this site, all the other social media is eating me alive) Anyway, they all have this little...
Imperials 5 — Thucydides Trap — Update
Hi, Folks, We really, really wanted to have this book come out in the spring, but life has a way of intruding. While I finished and delivered the book we've had struggles with Covid and other issues that have left the publisher upon occasion a bit short staffed. Which...
Writing About War
I was answering a question from my friend Juhan over on Facebook, and realized it was worth putting up here too. He asked how these events in Ukraine affect me as a writer. And here was my answer. It has made me ever more aware of the cost of war. Yes, on the soldiers...
A Sad Loss
As one ages this becomes a depressingly more common activity. Writing up your memories of a friend and colleague who has passed away. It is my sad task to have to do it again. It took me a long time to process this one. I think the suddenness of the loss of John Jos...
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas 2021
Forgive me for the long absence. Life has been challenging and I tend to spend more time on Facebook and Twitter than minding this blog. But I wanted to post today. I hope all of you are safe, warm and secure surrounded by people who love and care for you. I know this...
My Batshit Crazy Loki Conspiracy Theory
So a week or so ago I posed on Twitter that I could not understand why Sylvie’s hair had changed so drastically when we see her in flashbacks as a little girl in Asgard to the grown up Sylvie we see in the show. People made the argument that she was on the run from...
