I was notified by Macmillan Publishers about a shocking thing for a writer to bear.  Macmillan Publishers had "partnered" with Pronoun about nine months ago with the idea of offering book printing options for writers since Pronoun only published Ebooks.  This seemed a...

Interstellar travel.  The stuff of science fiction!  Will the people of Earth ever get the chance to really see the stars?  I don't intend to rehash a lot of popular articles about the mechanics of interstellar travel, but whether biological units of Earth would d...

Well, it finally happened.  I had been waiting two years since I first heard about it.  The FIRST ROBOT BATTLE!!  This was a challenge laid down two years ago by Matt Oehrlein and Gui Cavalcanti, co-founders of MegaBots to the Japanese Suidobashi CEO and founder Kogoro...

 As an avid reader, the thought had crossed my mind about writing.  You read enough stuff, and you think you have followed enough story plots and character development formulas to take a crack at it yourself.  But what to write?  Are you going to write something for yo...

The line from the film 'Throw Mama from the Train' about two very different aspiring writers sometimes drift in and out of my mind as I am working on a story.  It really is true in the sense that a writer never quite shuts off that project that they are working on.  Ev...

It is facinating how the written word molds a person's outlook, charictar, and moral compass.  One of the trademarks of any prolific writer is that they are almost all avid readers.  Inspiration comes from many places and books are some of the first places to stir the...