A finished work of fiction is like the tip of an iceberg. There more to it than meets the reader's eye.

If you are a writer and have ever wondered why you keep at it...

While developing the War of the Second Iteration series, ideas came to me for other tales set in that imagined future universe. A couple of them came to life. One became a standalone tale, its plot and characters having no role to play in the series. The other became something very different. In the short story Second Chance I found myself developing a character who would go on to play pivotal role in War of the Second Iteration. He was too interesting a character to not use there. And when...

So, about June…

Thirteen years ago this month I published The Luck of Han’anga, my first self-published novel. In the years that have passed since then, others have followed. I...

War of the Second Iteration, Gryphon Stone and its sequel, The Godsend Incident, and The Best Laid Plans are now available through all major ebook retail sources.

Barnes and...

The social media is awash in memes, those eye-catching images paired with pithy sayings, jokes, or political statements – those last two not always easily distinguished. For the most part, these postings are harmless, when they aren’t entirely meaningless. They are often quite amusing or even enlightening the first time you see one. Most of them definitely lose something through that endless repetition called “sharing” in the virtual world.

Some memes aren’t shared often enough, and not long...