After some considerable time in development, the first volume of Tales of the Middle Stars just went live at Amazon! Since 2015 I've ...

  As of April 30th, 2025, the Kickstarter campaign is live and doing great: triple-funded in the first 24 hours! Help bring this new volume ...

In recent years I’ve done more collaborative writing with my sister, Jen Downes, including a couple of short stories, one of which recently ...

Years ago I reread and reviewed The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith (1890-1965), a seminal work of science fiction for one salient fact—it ...

  Year Nine of this enterprise has now drawn to a close, and this is my annual review of progress. Last year I was able to report a gradual...

  I have sorely neglected this writing blog but there’s a good reason—my output has never been higher nor more focused. In short I’ve been b...

Okay, I’m rolling it out here late—because I’m so out of touch with the blog there are times I forget it’s clamouring for new posts! The fa...