SoonerCon: A Media Guest’s Retrospective

Yesterday ended my weekend at SoonerCon 26, a local science-fiction/fantasy/writer’s convention in Midwest City, Oklahoma within a short driving distance of my house.  This was my second year being invited as a media guest, which means I’ve written a few books and have done some podcasting, so they allow me to come be part of

The U.S. of After Chapter 11

Ralph These two are nothing like the two men in town. I still don’t care for them, though.  She’s just a little rich girl in trouble and he’s a dork who’s trying not to die. White people. Those two white guys back in Norman were an accident.  I won’t make the same mistake twice.  I

Kristie Colby: Why She Is the Love of My Life

As part of the “A to Z Blogging Challenge” and because this is my 100th post, I could not write about the letter that begins my wife’s name without writing a blog post about her and how she is the inspiration for every female lead in all of my fiction written since the day I

Signs of China: Laws of the Cosmos

Kid Diplomacy: What We Can All Learn

Something happened to my son at school that made me think about the way that adults and for that matter even nations treat each other and what we can all learn from children. My son had a falling out with his best friend at school Friday.  Something happened on the playground, then words were exchanged,