March has been a fairly turbulent month for me. This is painful because I was really hoping to have Book 2 ready to go, but we’re 7 days away from the end of the month and I have many pages to get through. First excuse: We’re selling our house! I’ll talk a bit more about […]
It’s Shrove Tuesday, or, as I prefer to call it, Pancake Tuesday. Now, unfortunately, I didn’t get to make pancakes this morning, but there’s no reason you shouldn’t. I have a failproof, top notch recipe for delicious, light and fluffy pancakes that are excellent receptacles for butter, maple syrup and whatever fruit or toppings you […]
This week’s tempest in a tweetpot is bubbling over because Twitter has announced they’re going to replace the current chronological stream we all know and love with a Facebook-like “algorithm-based timeline”. Naturally, people being people, the standard reaction is “OMG NO! CHANGE WE FEAR IT WTF!!!” followed by a stream of eggplant and hotdog emojis […]
Hey there. How’s it going? Enjoying the Winter? Me too! So, I wrote that book thing, and a bunch of you read it and a few even reviewed it and I think that’s super. Typical responses go something like, “OMG cliffhanger, you bastard!” followed by, “BOOK 2 NOW”. Regarding the first, I am sorry about […]
Warning: Navel-gazing ahead. Feel free to skip straight to the pictures. 2015 was a fun year for me, photographically-speaking. I was lucky enough to travel to two (2!) places in the country I’ve never been to: Cape Breton and Newfoundland. I lived in Cape Breton briefly as a very young kid and went on a […]
Yesterday, NASA released the most complete view of the largest moon in our solar system. A false-color composite taken on November 13th at high altitude. Cassini used its infrared, moderate resolution camera system. allowing it to see through the thick hydrocarbon atmosphere. The 1KM/px resolution image shows landmasses, dunes and liquid lakes of methane. Hard […]
Hey. How’s your weekend? Mine’s alright, thanks. The other day, Charles Stross wrote a screed about The Things One Must Not Do in science fiction in order to maintain his suspension of disbelief. These things are pretty much a laundry list of Things I used in Trajectory Book 1. The coincidence made me chuckle while […]
I’d like to thank everyone who sent feedback, tweeted about and downloaded my book yesterday. I think by most accounts it was a pretty successful first day for a new book from an unknown author, so I’m very grateful for all the stars and hearts. Thank you. In case you missed it and have no […]
Greetings. Happy December. I hope you all had a delightful Cyber Weekend. I am excited/thrilled/terrified to be launching my new book, Trajectory Book 1 for Amazon Kindle today. For those on epub, I have a plan for those to follow. Drop me a note or watch this space for updates about releases. If you want […]
Hi. I thought I’d come up to periscope depth to drop a few words about what I’ve been up to. WordPress is a tricky vehicle to publish with and it usually devolves into extended configuration and Linux spelunking but I think I’m through the worst of it. If I can just ignore that blinking terminal […]
