TOR’s managing editor told me that if readers are asking for the next chapter, you probably have a good book. Well Teresa, here you go! Here are some reader reviews: (These are from my Wattpad account). @JeckoJasher:My heart was racing,...
“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...
Looking through my files of favorite images, I ran across this one. It wasn’t my intent to feature Andreas Rocha again but this painting caught my eye because it so immediately guides the mind towards a story. In fact, the...
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...
I wish I knew where this picture came from – if you know the illustrator, please let me know so I can drop him a link … and perhaps hire him someday. When I first saw this illustration, I immediately...
Today’s laugh comes from Homer Simpson’s epic misquote of Philippians 4:13: Trying is the first step towards failure. Or, maybe he was simply trying to get a job at despair.com. If you haven’t checked out their site before, give it...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my...
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?
I don’t recall when I found this quote or what it was regarding but I remember thinking that it was the work of a very clever word smith who thinks outside of the box: “Strictly speaking, … [what they are...
Every generation, teenagers come up with something new to identify themselves as somehow unique and different from their parents and/or previous generations. They feel a strong need to create a distinct identify for themselves that will make them feel important,...
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison True hundreds of years ago and still true today … although they may not have called them overalls hundreds of years...
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...
“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...
Here is my inspiration. Like I said, I think the artist’s name is Tes Akizhao. Apart from the cool armor and the spear instead of a staff, this could be a portrait of me. Perhaps when I get my portrait...
This painting (used to be here) makes me want to write a story. It immediately engenders a subtext of two civilizations: one who lives a precarious life upon a luscious cliffside land that is barely large enough to provide the needs...
“Don’t you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There’s one marked ‘Brightness,’ but it doesn’t work.” Gallagher So true – the obvious remedy of course is to cozy up to a good thriller....
Obsessively, I collect names for future characters, categorize them (male/female; exotic/common, etc.), and keep them safe for future use. One day, I was looking over names based upon nouns (Canyon, Meadow, Candle, Kale, etc.) and was trying to think of...
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...