When I started writing, I made the decision to write LGBTQ characters into mainstream science fiction books as a reaction to the massive gap I saw in science fiction television shows and movies growing up in the eighties and nineties. (Sadly, I didn’t read much back then.) Gay characters in …
If you like Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Mass Effect, Game of Thrones, and Star Craft, you’ll love my upcoming GALAXY Series. The Galaxy Series is a massive, LGBT-normalized science fiction space opera I’ve been working on for over two years now. I’ve spent a lot of time …
I’m really exited to share that I’ve finished a major round of edits for the THE CLIMB, the novel I’ve been writing since 2012. Four years later, I’m thrilled to finally transition the book to the beta read stage. At the time of this post, THE CLIMB is just over 125,000 words will be independently …
This afternoon the Memoir app alerted me to the fact that I announced to the world one year ago today (right here on my site) that I would be writing GALAXY. A year later, I still haven’t published anything, and I’ve only made a few blog updates about the story…but …
Some time ago Tim and I started listening to podcasts. Suddenly our eyes opened to the amazing reality that we no longer had to listen to the inanity of the radio when driving to and from work and on other trips. As with our music, we could choose what we wanted …
Back-story Plots Over the past few weeks I’ve been working on some important back-story plots for my space opera novel Galaxy. These key plots may or may not make it into the published novel because they serve only to help me set a believable stage for the reader when they enter the story. Below …
I often wonder how other authors started out and what tools they used to organize their writing. After doing some initial research and reading articles about which software is better for what purpose etc., I set my path out before me. Between my Mac, iPhone and iPad, I’ve assembled a suite …
The picture of this young man fired up my imagination. I do not know who he is, who took the photo, or why. But I when I stumbled across it, I realized he would be the visual inspiration for a main character in a story I was incubating in my mind. It’s his eyes… they desperately …
Great science fiction is wrapped in solid story telling that is supported by a vast array of stuff that shapes the universe in which memorable characters exist. All of the ideas in my head need a stage to perform on. Even though I write them down for future development, I realized …