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Readers Wanted

I will finish my edits of Hard as Roxx tomorrow, after spending a week integrating editor’s and beta readers’ comments. I still like the book, though I wonder if it starts quickly enough for some. As is true in most

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A Brief History of the Collapse of the 21st Century

This story is a prologue to my in-development Sci-Fi thriller, Hard as Roxx. It paints the story of a slow decline of Earth’s culture into dystopia. It is also an alternate take to the scenario painted in the story “Due

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One More Weird Idea

I’ve had people ask me from whence come my stories. … Okay, my dad asked me that once. Still, he was quite insistent: “Where on Earth do you get the ideas you need to write an entire book?” That’s actually

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From Hard as Roxx – “What Could Go Wrong?”

This is a brief excerpt from Chapter 2 of my science fiction tome, Hard as Roxx. I am looking for a proofreader to edit chapters 12 – 27 . In the meantime, here is one of my favorite moments, from Chapter 2.

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Forward Thinking

So, I’m a science fiction nut. No, not a geek, or a gamer, or a nerd, I’m none of those things. I am simply an old-fashioned fan of science, especially as it pertains to speculation of which technologies will take

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Excerpt from “Days of the Never Was”

Excerpt from “Days of the Never Was” from Juice and Other Stories, on sale now. In “Days,” three pairs of friends drive into a strange fog bank, and re-emerge, with their lives forever changed. Diana Harper sat in the sparsely

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Finding My Reading Style

What if you read one of the “best ever” books in your favorite genre, and you don’t like it? Does it make you a bad person? Perhaps there is that small, dim voice whispering that you are a crass peon

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If I Wanted to Get Depressed I’d Have Gone to Work

I read a couple of books this week, both science fiction, one upbeat, the other decidedly not. It got me to thinking a lot about how society has evolved, and how we respond to hope (or the lack thereof). It

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Which Way Gold?

So, I am going through Hard as Roxx once again, this time reading as a reader and not an editor. I’m finding minor mistakes with flow, wording, etc., but nothing major. My real problem is indecision. I haven’t decided what

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Hard as Roxx

This weekend I will begin my second draft of Hard as Roxx. That it is only the second draft is astounding to me, as in Discovery and Awakening (The Stream) I went through six or seven drafts before I was

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