This is the first story I submitted in last year's NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Contest. The Contest is fun and challenging. You're given a setting, item and a genre for a 1000-word story. Then a panel reads your story and you get points and if you get enough you go onto the next round. I... Continue Reading →
Welcome Summer — Let’s Read
Today, June 20, 2024 marks the summer solstice in which we embrace the light. We will get 15 hours and five minutes of illumination from the Sun, today. That's compared to about seven hours and 40 minutes of light on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. So let's do something good with... Continue Reading →
Dragons of Orion Progress
For those interested, progress is ongoing on Dragons of Orion, a fantasy series set on the planet of Orion where riders of dragons, griffins, unicorns and the dolphins of the land, thorpins, compete to give their islands sovereignty over the archipelago. We start with the dragons picking their new crop of riders and learn, all... Continue Reading →
The Last Disruptor and Potential Exclusive to Amazon
After a year, my novels The Last Disruptor and Potential have ended their run on the shelves at Sundance Books on California Ave. in Reno. For now you'll have to order the paperback or e-book from Amazon to exclusively. Local book stores interested in carrying the books can acquire them through Amazon at a wholesale... Continue Reading →
Final Art
Here it is, the final unedited art that’s planned for the Dragons of Orion. The Dragon Four and Tom Brace escape from a burning and sinking ship. Dragons of Orion. Acrylic on Canvas Please feel free to comment! Love hearing people’s thoughts. The story itself centers on the dragon Four and their rider Tom Brace... Continue Reading →
Some Kind Words For The Last Disruptor
One of the best feelings I've ever gotten professionally is hearing that someone enjoyed what I wrote. That happened today after a colleague at my night job, was curious about The Last Disruptor and read it. She said it was sad at the end but she enjoyed it and we got to talk a bit... Continue Reading →
Swings are the coffeeshops of childhood
The Last Disruptor is in many ways about that year in childhood where you begin to become an adult and face real issues. For me fifth grade seems to be the year that that happens. You know it's that year when you start understanding deeper meanings to literature, songs and the events in your life... Continue Reading →
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