Sweet Talk
“You talk so sweet I bet you have to suck on salt for half and hour to get the taste of sugar out of your mouth.” In “Seventh Son,” there are several places where dialogue typical of the eighteenth/nineteenth century...
Don’t Strive for Success
Strive not for success but to be of value. Albert Einstein Einstein is one of my favorite personalities – not because he was brilliant – but because he was so practical. If being famous ever got to his head, he...
Moon 514 Cover Progress
We’re coming along well. The picture is a concept painting of the environment (futuristic Borneo after a third holocaust) by Grant Hansen. What do you think of the progress?
The Magic Woman – Moon 514 Free Scene
The image above is a thumbnail sketch of a proposed cover design for Moon 514 by Grant Hansen. Below is an extract of Moon 514 that features the enigmatic alien who will be featured on the cover: The magic woman...
Prose – Orson Scott Card
“When you make one basket, it can never be more than one basket. But when you say words. They can be repeated over and over, and fill men’s hearts a thousand miles from where you first spoke them. Words can...
If you have 2,000 reads, you know your book is good.
I attended WorldCon in the fall of 2013. As anyone who regularly attends Cons might expect, I brushed shoulders with many nice (and sometimes very nice and weird) people dressed in extravagant costumes that one only ever sees at international...