What's grass ever done for me? I dislike mowing lawn. As a boy I grew up on what might be called a "hobby farm" in this day and age. When I was old enough to reach the handles on the lawnmower my father set me and my brother to work. The only rule about mowing … Continue reading Regarding Grass →

It's the end of January. The books are published and on Amazon. The great project of 2023 is, at last complete, and 2024 opens wide with possibility. The world, as they say, is my oyster. Yet instead I feel like Jonah trapped in the belly of the whale. Partly that's due to some health stuff that has me worried, … Continue reading →

Hello my lovelies! I've just returned from Arisia and had a productive sleep. It's snowing heavily but I have no children and work from home, so it's just some beautiful, silent precipitation and not a terrific chore. Good luck to any of you who are out in it. Arisia is a science fiction / fantasy convention on the … Continue reading Arisia 2024, Book Launch, and What Comes Next →

How exciting! Sex Bunker Apocalypse, Spin the Throttle and Handcuffed to Never are all available on Amazon. The fools went for it and decided the three could be released to the wider public. Now it's your chance to read them before strange men in dark jackets show up at my doorstep with a concerned look in their eye, … Continue reading The Books Are Out! →

Good morning everyone! For those of you here to read about the squirrels, please skip to the last paragraph.  For everyone else, I have good news. After a lot of blood, sweat, tears and other unnamed fluids I am pleased to announce that, barring catastrophe, Sex Bunker Apocalypse has been approved for sale by Amazon. I got the … Continue reading A New Year – Where We’re At and What Comes Next →

I had to put pants on to write this. That's a major sacrifice, I want you to know. My housemate's journeying to the United Kingdom so she might ride British rail, but she's mostly staying downstairs these days. So the pants are going on for her sake. She doesn't care anyway, with those lips? Ugh. … Continue reading Why Pants Suck →

Good morning folks! This will be brief, but I thought it might be fun and informative to let you know where the books stand. My editor got all three Sex Bunker Apocalypse books back to me in record time and I'm hard at work going through her edits. The first book had the most notes … Continue reading Editing And a Timeframe →

So the fourth book is nearly completed - there's a final chapter that needs kicking around in my head for another day or two, and of course the epilogue. But last night something scurried out of my hands onto the page, and I thought I'd post a bit of it here once in a while. … Continue reading A New Chapter, A New Book →

The manuscript for the first novel, Sex Bunker Apocalypse: Seven Decades in Heaven, has returned! It's all printed out and marked up with two colors of pen, which my father, a brilliant author himself, has assured me is a Good Sign. The book feels strange all printed out. It feels ore real. I don't know … Continue reading Points Of View →

We have a woodchuck living in our neighbor's backyard. It's probably an unaccompanied male. It looks young, probably less than a year old. Maybe it was born late last autumn in a litter of one to two others, and is now foraging on its own. Anyway, I have a problem with this woodchuck. It's also … Continue reading The Woodchuck →