This Writer’s Life

What would happen if, in an instant, the lights went out—not just in your town, but across the entire world? No phones. No internet. No electricity. That chilling possibility lies at the heart of my Solar Storms Saga books, and it isn’t just fiction. It’s a very real threat. You may have heard such solar events referred to as an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. Such bursts of energy can disable electronics world-wide and they come in two forms. 

The older I get, the more I marvel at technological advances. I wasn’t even two years old when, in October of 1957, the Soviets launched a small satellite and started the race to space. Now we’ve landed astronauts on the moon, and about 10,000 satellites orbit above us. However, for me, the greatest leap forward in technology is the Internet. Without it, I wouldn’t be an author or business owner, and my latest project would be impossible.

“A Humvee parked in front of his house couldn’t mean anything good.” That’s the first line of The Storm Rises, the exciting sidequel to Through the Storm, of the Solar Storms Saga. The series examines the very real possibility of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) destroying modern technology. Why am I mentioning all of this, other than blatant self-promotion? Well—for two reasons.