I’d like to share the Author’s Note, specifically the one from Fall of the Green Land, book one of the Future History of the Grail. … More Author’s Note for The Future History of the Grail
The Future History of the Grail is now live on Amazon for your Kindle! … More Launch! The Future History of the Grail is now live
Creating the cast of characters for The Future History of the Grail is some of the most fun I’ve had as a writer. … More Cast of characters for Future History of the Grail
In 2019, I started a long-term project called “Future Climates,” which is a series of short stories inspired by geoengineering. These are grand-scale technologies proposed to roll back or block the effects of climate change. … More Three amazing technologies that could fix climate change
One of the great moments of film comedy occurs early in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the 1975 British parody of the Arthurian legends. … More My love-hate relationship with Monty Python and the Holy Grail
You can be among the first readers to receive your ebook copies of Fall of the Green Land, War for the Green Land, and Return to the Green Land … More Pre-orders available now for The Future History of the Grail
Now an audiobook! Fall of the Green Land, book one of the Future History of the Grail, is available for Kindle and on Kindle Unlimited. … More Now available: Fall of the Green Land
War for the Green Land, book two in the Future History of the Grail, is now available for purchase on Kindle and in Kindle Unlimited. … More Now available: War for the Green Land
Return to the Green Land, book three of the Future History of the Grail, is now available on Kindle and in Kindle Unlimited. … More Now available: Return to the Green Land
I’m now recruiting “beta” readers for all three books in The Future History of the Grail, titled Fall of the Green Land, War for the Green Land, and Return of the Green Land. … More Beta readers needed for The Future History of the Grail
You’re a science fiction or literary writer. You know climate change is important, but you’re unsure about what story to tell. Here’s some prompts to get you thinking. … More 10 extra writing prompts for stories about climate change
It’s exciting when you get two pieces of great news in the same week. … More A new short story is published; another award from a prestigious contest
I’ve just received my copy of the latest anthology to include one of my short stories. … More Wow! My second sci-fi anthology this month
Two-Hour Transport is a new anthology of science fiction, fantasy, and horror by Seattle-area authors. … More I’ve been published in a new sci-fi anthology
Wired for Story explains storytelling in the context of brain science and human evolution. For me, it clarified some of the truisms of writing, while shedding light on why storytelling matters. … More Review: What science teaches writers about storytelling
I’m thrilled to participate in the first Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America reading series of 2019 in Seattle and Portland. … More Come to my free readings in Seattle and Portland
I’m thrilled to report what I consider to be one of my best successes on the writing contest circuit. My short story, The Pupfish of Miracle Spring, made the short list of ten finalists in The End of Our World contest, managed by Aftermath Magazine, which is based in The Netherlands. The contest drew more … More One of my stories makes a contest’s short list in a field of 1,400
Science fiction is more than spaceships, lasers and aliens. Some novels remind us that ordinary academic science can be quite dramatic. … More Review: Watermelon Snow needs more to reach its ambition
A new sub-genre of science fiction—climate fiction—has taken hold. Read these 14 lesser-known climate fiction novels and anthologies. … More Read these 14 lesser-known climate fiction novels and anthologies
I was thrilled to work with podcasters Ben Franke and Marie Kammerer-Franke on two episodes of their epic Indie Beginning podcast, which features independent authors, such as myself. They recently published two podcasts related to my work. The first podcast was a reading of chapter one of Carbon Run, the first full-length novel in my … More Download the podcast of Carbon Run, chapter one
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