Her fight begins the day the world ends. I am running a Kindle Countdown Deal for my YA Post-Apocalypse novel, The Girl at the End of the World. The book will be on sale at Amazon for just 99 cents June 24th and 25th. 4.5 out of 5 stars based on 22 Amazon reviews. Scarlett…
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I must have been about eight years old. Our neighbor, a grandmotherly type whose children had all grown up, was cleaning out her garage and brought over a box of books, mostly Whitman Classics hardcovers. I could have them if I wanted them, she told me. I wasn’t a big reader at eight, but it…
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Last week, I had the good fortune to stumble onto Emma Donoghue being interviewed on Michael Silverblatt’s “Book Worms” show on KCRW. I’m generally not a reader of historical novels, but I’d seen a review of Donoghue’s latest book Frog Music: A Novel in a magazine a couple weeks back, and so I got sucked…
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For the next couple of days, my YA Post-Apocalypse novel, The Girl at the End of the World, will be on sale at Amazon for 99 cents. 4.4 out of 5 stars based on 18 Amazon reviews. Her fight begins the day the world ends. Scarlett Fisher is an average California teenager. She likes hanging…
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A couple of weeks back, I assigned Harlan Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin,’ Said the Ticktockman” in my Science Fiction class. As I was getting ready for class, I pulled up a couple of clips from Erik Nelson’s brilliant Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, just to give my students a better sense of the writer. The…
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Time Travel–Pulp Fiction Style Take Back Tomorrow is available as a FREE download for a limited time. Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too. It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow 44 Amazon Reviews with an average 4.5 stars. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun…
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Is This Science Fiction? Or This? Both? I started teaching my Science Fiction class at Fullerton College last week, a course we offer every two years. It’s been nice having conversations with students about my favorite genre; some of the students bring a lot of background, and others are “sci fi curious” so it’s a good…
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Anniversary Week Continues with Another Discounted Book “This is an awesome book. It seamlessly blends the classic pulp private dick character of Raymond Chandler and the darkly humorous science fiction of Philip K. Dick into a wonderful read.”–Mary C. Moore For a limited time, my dystopian Science Fiction novel, Strictly Analog, is on sale for…
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This week I’m celebrating the second anniversary of my foray into indie publishing. I hit the “publish” button on my first novel, Take Back Tomorrow, on January 24, 2012. While the venture hasn’t been a whirlwind success, it’s been extremely rewarding. I’ve followed that first book with two other full-length novels and two novellas, and…
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