I started this blog on August 21, 2012, with the release of my first book, Titan Encounter. Most of those posts are now in what I call the “Early Blog.” I’m gradually updating their format and bringing them into this new journal. Back then the sole purpose of the blog was to promote my books, but gradually that changed.
That’s how it started but, over the years, I’ve mused about other things that are important to me, such as my family, my farm, rural life, and occasionally about politics and country. However, I try to limit the politics in this journal. If you want to know more about my political leaning go to The Conservative Alternative.
A few years ago, doctors discovered that I had an autoimmune disorder. Treatment for it stifled my writing and delayed the third book of the Solar Storms Saga. However, doctors have been able to treat the illness and that has allowed me to resume writing. Consequently, the much-delayed third book in the Solar Storms Saga, Facing the Storm, has now been released!
Read MoreThe exciting third book of the Solar Storms Saga will be released on April 14th. In this series, several immense coronal mass ejections have hit the Earth, destroying most modern technology. Panic, starvation, and chaos spread across the world. The series follows several families as they struggle to survive and restore some semblance of civilization.
Read MoreAnd advances in audiobooks
I’m using computer technology to create auto-narrated audiobooks. Race to Refuge is my first such audiobook and, it has already been released on Google Play Books.
Read MoreI don’t yet have a book cover for Facing the Storm but, you can read chapter one of the exciting third book of the Solar Storms Saga by clicking on the link here.
In this series, several immense coronal mass ejections have hit the Earth, destroying most modern technologies. Panic, starvation, and chaos spread across the world. The series follows several families as they struggle to survive and restore some semblance of civilization.
Read MoreThis has been an exciting weekend!
Even before it was released, Race to Refuge, my latest 16,000-word short story, had climbed onto the Amazon short story bestseller lists. On Friday morning, March fifteenth, when Amazon released the story I checked and was thrilled to see it at number seven on the Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Story List. But, it kept climbing all day. By evening it had reached the number two slot on the bestseller list.
Read MoreMy first book of 2019 is available now!
Pundits say that the second-best promotion an author can have is finishing their next book. Well, the graphic design and editing of Race to Refuge flew by and my first release of 2019 is now available for pre-order for only 99 cents.
Read MoreRace to Refuge will be released in March.
I received the cover back from the graphic designer, Domi, of Inspired Cover Designs, yesterday and I’m showing it here first.
In this story, University of Washington students Ryan Palmer and Amy decide to bugout of Seattle when world tensions threaten to boil over into world war.
Read MoreI was sitting in my living room this morning when I heard a thud.
I felt confident that I’d find a heavy box just outside the door, and I did. The delivery service had dropped off a package containing thirty-five copies of Christmas in Time. Both my oldest son and I have stories in the anthology. My
Read MoreTime is on my mind
I should have posted this earlier, but got busy and time slipped away from me, but Christmas in Time deserves to be mentioned.
Yesterday Amazon released the ebook version of this Christmas anthology. My story in the collection is titled, What Will You Do? If you pre-ordered book it’s already on your Kindle. The paperback version will be released soon.
Read MoreI’m late, but the book isn’t!
I’m late writing this blogpost, but I got the book out on time! The Storm Rises, book 0 in the Solar Storms Saga was released on September 21st and is available now exclusively on Amazon in both ebook and paperback versions. So far the novella has all five-star reviews and none of the reviewers are related to me by blood or marriage.
Read MoreThe writing of What Will You Do
Most of us are familiar with the birth of Jesus from the biblical account. In Luke, we read that on that first Christmas an angel appeared to shepherds and tells them that the Messiah has been born in Bethlehem. They run to the village and see the baby Jesus.
Read MoreI’m working on a Christmas story.
Where I live, in the northern hemisphere, we’re less than two weeks from the official start of summer, but I’m trying to write about Christmas.
Read MoreI’d like to be on top, but I’ll settle for the slow climb.
There is a saying in the writing world that an author is only as good as their latest book. Now with computers and the internet, many authors can check their sales and rank in near real-time. This can be both a good thing and bad.
Read MoreToday at 4:00 pm (Pacific Time) I’ll be live on The Write Stuff radio program with Parker J. Cole of PJC Media and WLUV Detroit to discuss my latest novel Through the Storm.
In this latest novel, Neal Evans is in Nevada when he hears that an immense coronal mass ejection will soon slam into the Earth’s magnetosphere.
Read MoreThe worldwide release of my latest novel, Through the Storm, occurred this morning—while I slept actually.
Despite my sleeping through the moment, I am excited about this new story. The ebook was released today. Because of a few logistical problems, the paperback will come out later this week and the audiobook next month.
Read MoreSince the March release of Seekers of Earth, events have moved rapidly
The Guardian Knights of Terra series has seen great interest and this means there will be a third book in the series.
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