Super Cyber Sale!

 Get them both for $4 total!!  Click the links below!! Do it NOW!

Blood Heretics

Blood Sky Dreams 

Trees are going up!!

 

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

 

Writer Retreat

I am currently at a writer retreat. My wife has been busy while I'm gone. Meet our new dog, Penny! 

 

Election Day!

 Make sure you go out and vote today if you are eligible and haven't yet!

--Freedom!

RIP: My dog Whiskey

My sweet girl was suffering from escalating seizures. Yesterday, we had to make that decision we all dread. My heart is broken. I'll miss you. I'll never forget you.

Lot Con 2025!

It was a beautiful Autumn day to sell books! 

--Thanks to David Keener for bringing his canopy!

Lot Con 2925

 I'm selling and signing books this weekend on Sunday! Bring the kids, bring your dog!

44031 Ashburn Shopping Plz, Ashburn, VA, 20147

 

 --Stop in and say hi!

Does it have a dog?

 

I got hit by a deer...

 Truck was minding it's own business and... BAM!

 --Not my week...

Your Friday Vibe...

The Investment

We even renewed vows!

My Vintage Stereo, just got an upgrade!

 I recently installed a custom built-in cabinet for all my Vintage Audio/Video gear.

 My system includes the following gear:

• Technics SU-8044 Amp
• Technics ST-S3 Tuner
• Technics RS-B18 Cassette Deck
• Technics SL-1500 direct drive
• Technics SH-8025 equalize
• Technics DVD Player
• Roberts reel to reel
• 
  8-Track Player
• RCA 5 inch TV AJR054W
• SONY Betamax
• SONY DVD/VHS Player
• SONY Blueray Player
• Fire TV 50 inch 
• BOSE 501 speakers
• Esinkin Wireless Audio Adapter 

My latest addition is this little guy, a Bluetooth receiver that connects directly to legacy RCA jacks to the AUX input.

Now I can play music through my Vintage Stereo from Pandora, Amazon Music, Spotify, and even YouTube. It was super easy to install and setup. It was also only $21.

It is a Esinkin Wireless Audio Adapter. Click the link to find it on Amazon!! I love it!!

 

Short Scifi Saturday: The Adventures of Reemo Green

Yep...

 

Scifi Saturday: Moon Zero Two

Road Trip: I went on an Epic Road Trip

 I went on a huge Road Trip!!

Short Film Friday: Homecoming

My KDP Account was Suspended

Two weeks ago, around August 1st, my KDP account was suspended and my titles delisted with no explanation. I have not received any emails explaining why or how to get my account reinstated. No Case number. Nothing.

I have checked my spam, junk, trash, and All mail folders daily. I have verified that the email is working. I even received unrelated emails from Amazon.

Using the contact form, I have communicated daily with them. No replies. 

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/contact-us

Today, I received a notice from ACX/Audible that said if my KDP Account is not reinstated in 10 days, my ACX/Audible Account will also be terminated.

I am beyond frustrated at the total lack of communication from KDP Support. This post is a shot in the dark, hoping it can find someone who can help me.

I stand ready and willing to fix any and all errors on my part, if I knew what they were.

--More updates as they become available.

 

---UPDATE: After 102 days my account was reinstated. The dumb thing is by then I had republished everything in eBook, Paperback, Hardback, and Audio editions. Oh well. Back to work! 

Yeah, it's been like that!

 

Back from vacation!

There was a lot of chaos here while I was gone!

More on the adventures later!

SciFi Friday: Crash Site

Need some summer reading? On Sale Now!

 

--Here is the new Order to Read page!

Not doing that again...

 

Short Film Friday: Coalescence

Throw Back Thursday: Where it all began!

 

On Sale Now!!

 

Blood Sky Dreams

 

A "Mistake"...

 

Saturday Morning Coffee and Cartoons: Dexter's Lab

 A fan theory:

I read a fan theory that suggested Dexter's parents and sister were all robots that he had built after one of his lab accidents had killed them. They were specifically designed to prevent Dexter from killing anyone else or from becoming a super villain.

I think that's true...

Happy Independance Day! Freedom!

 

What order you should read the novels.

  

Solstice 31 Saga

Still Falling

The Broken Cage
Blood of the Scarecrow
===
Virtues of the Vicious
Shadows of the Sentinel
The Law of Lumina
Revenge of the Render
*Jake’s Countdown
 

 The Vampire Conspiracy

Blood Heretics
Blood Sky Dreams
 
Short Story Collections
 
Six Years Out
Peck’s Halfway
 
Anthologies as Editor
 
Silence of the Apoc
Whispers of the Apoc
The Witness Paradox
 

Stand Alone Novels

*Then Quietly Strangled

*Time Enough

* forthcoming

The Library I Want!

The Adventure Continues!

 

--Get BLOOD HERETICS  and BLOOD SKY DREAMS now on Amazon!

--Dec 2, Now the Audio Editions are on Super-Cyber-Sale for $2 each! 

Lather, Rinse, Repeat...

 

Music to write by...

Are you looking for music to have as background while you write? YouTube has some for every mood!

 

 

Short Film Friday: MARIE

Quotes of the Week

 

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

- More quotations on: [Books]

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

- More quotations on: [Humility]

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)

- More quotations on: [Writing]

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"

- More quotations on: [Quotations]

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)

Vacation reading!

I am putting together my vacation reading list. I need some recommendations! Here is what's in my pile already: 

--This is a good start, but I need something I wouldn't consider.

I read a great book.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

• He cannot look inside the box.
• He cannot ask questions.
• He cannot tell anyone.
• They must leave immediately.
• He must leave all trackable devices behind.

As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.

--Original plot, great characters, great commentary on today's world.

Northern Exposure

 I am currently watching Season 5 of Northern Exposure. That was a great show. Excellent writing. Episode 5 even has Jack Black as a High School Senior!  

--All six seasons can be screened on Amazon Prime.

Scifi Friday Shorts: Everything Dies Out Here

Now on SALE!!

When the dreams came, Kara Manning thought they were just nightmares of blood, murder, and destruction. A product of too much pizza and action movies on her new TV. She never imagined that they were far more. She thought they were subconscious fears transformed into night visions of red skies and her beloved ruined city of Richmond, Virginia.

She had no idea that the vampires of her horror dreams were real or that she was a Valkyrie, whatever the hell that was.

When she began subtly changing her dreams with minor changes in her waking life, she reluctantly began to believe she was a prophet of the pending apocalypse. She was a receptionist, a nobody trying to get by. Her dreams of red skies had turned to nightmares, and then to prophecy.

Dying night after night in her visions was easy. 

Saving the world… not so much.

--Available in Kindle, and Paperback. Hardback and Audio editions are on the way!

Balticon 2025

 I spent this weekend at Balticon. I was on 6 panels and had a lot of fun!

---Inspired and back to writing!

Spring LotCon 2025

 Beautiful day!

I had an excellent day yesterday selling and signing books. The weather was beautiful, and the people came out in droves! Thanks to fellow author David Keener and all the folks who came out, including former co-workers from the days when I had a real job!

Now on Pre-Sale!!

 

Scifi Saturday: ENCOUNTER (1:32)

Short Film Scifi Friday: HEPT

Comic Logic Spring Lot Con 2025

 I'll be selling and signing books at this festival! There will be music, food-trucks, Comics, Collectables, and Me! Stop by and say hi. The weather looks to be excellent.

WHEN: Sunday, May 18, 2025 - 12:00 PM 4:00 PM

WHERE: 44031 Ashburn Shopping Plaza, Ashburn, VA, 20147

We got another dog! Meet Huxley! That makes 2 dogs and 2 cats! Oh the humanity!

 

#Truth

 

I'm Back!

 

Whiskey

I'm back from a week of travel with my wife and my dog Whiskey. My dog loves to travel. 

It was an adventure to find dog-friendly hotels and restaurants. Hotels were easy, restaurants, not so much.

The trip started with some adventure. Lest than 10 miles from home we had a transmission problem with our truck. We had to move to plan B and transfer plans to our car. We still managed to hit the road only 10 hours late. I'm sure I Jinxed it by celebrating our departure an hour early. 

Fun was had by all.

RavenCon 2025

 

I'll be selling and signing books this weekend!

 

I'm back!

My Writer Retreat 5.0 was a success!

I finished the first draft of a novel, working title: Hell to Pay.

Now back to work on Blood Sky Dreams.

Short Scifi Friday: Worlds Apart (17 mins)

Sci-Friday: Hyperlight

Spring Writer Retreat

I will be heading out later today for my Spring Writer Retreat. For this retreat, I will be house-sitting a fellow author who is going on a two-week vacation. 

The plan is to write the entire 1st draft of a new novel in 14 days. These are the key components to success:

• Already have a verbose outline (16 pages)
• Detailed character sheets, including actor photos that would play each primary and secondary part.
• Food and drink for all 14 days.
• No Distractions.(email, FB, X, news, TV, nothin)
• Take my own comfy office chair.
• Write 8 to 10 hours each day.
• Morning and Afternoon walks.
• Average 6,000 to 10,000 words a day.
• Hammer through the entire 1st draft with no self-editing.
• Document my daily word count.
• Share that word count daily with people who will keep me accountable.
• No excuses, no distractions, no escape...

This will be my 5th solo Writer Retreat. Wish me luck!!

Not again!

Scifi Saturday: Serenity (1:58)

Scifi Short: Firmware

Quote of the Week

 

Not Again!

 

Scifi Saturday: After (2012)

Scifi Friday: Outer Reaches (12:12 mins)

Free Writing Workshop!

 

Quote of the Week

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

---Irish Proverb

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 

Who needs sleep!

 

Quote of the Week

 

Goin Campin!!

 

Short Film Friday: Apocalypse

Quote of the Week