Most folks who lose a loved one struggle to share their thoughts. In the midst of sorrow, self-reflection often trumps self-expression. In my case, I have no choice. When asked to stop preaching about Jesus, Peter said he couldn’t stop speaking about the things he had seen and heard. When it comes to Grandma’s role […]

Running around to get ready for hosting our family this Thanksgiving it’s easy to forget to… well… reflect on our blessings and give thanks. I pray that you and your loved ones will enjoy a terrific time today! I leave you with some images from our prep efforts…

You just returned from a two week vacation. As soon as you enter your house, your feet slosh-splash into two inches of water. Oh, no! Your plumbing has sprung a leak! What is the first thing you do (after the weeping and gnashing of teeth)? Spend months (maybe longer, to get it right!) designing better […]

As I shared in a prior post, I wrote the Our Cyber World series as the stories came to me. As it’s turned out, they didn’t come in a clean, linear chronological order. Book numbers reflect the order in which the books were released. To help readers trying to decide where to start and in […]

From time to time I like to take a step back and reassess my work. At the moment, given my busy schedule and workload, I am sensing I need to refocus which of my series require my attention. To help me make a full evaluation, I am asking my readers a simple question: which of […]

We run into fools all the time. At least once a day. For me, it starts first thing in the morning, the second I look at myself in the mirror. But you know who I’m talking about: the OTHER fools. The ones that exasperate me on the drive to work. Honk! Keep hands on steering […]

I am putting the final touches on a fiction book (Feral) in which one of the characters remarks that wealth isn’t real. How could it be when stock market fluctuations, or even a market cyberattack makes so much of it disappear in a matter of hours if not minutes or… seconds? When you write a […]

As a reader, what’s your take on descriptive chapter titles? By that I mean, titles that go beyond the standard “Chapter #” format and say something about the chapter they head. In the past, I’ve avoided the practice. First, I don’t like to spoil what the chapter is about. I certainly disdain anything more than […]

As an author struggling with ways to effectively market my books, I would love for Amazon to develop an offering that would allow us to partner in the promotion of my independently produced eBooks. It would go something like this. Amazon should integrate (add) a Bookbub-like newsletter feature. In broad strokes: Allow readers/buyers to opt […]

Should I feel guilty? Two years ago I drafted a novel with drones doing nasty things, and a year ago I published it (my first!). Now, it seems like every other news story features drones in some misdeed or other. You have the drone that crashed on White House grounds, the drone that shoots off […]