Book Launch: The Shibboleth Code Is Finally Available!

After a long wait and a lot of struggle, the final book in the Five Rims Series is finally available! Description: Guillermo and Mitsuki, the last humans in existence, have survived their escape through the dangerous purple ionic cloud. Their broken gunship floating helpless in space, they are picked up by a gargantuan dreadnaught, healed

What Novels Inspire Your Writing?

As stated many times on this blog, good writers must in turn be good readers.  I don’t mean you can read lots of words or big words (sorry Trump) but I simply mean that good writers seek out good writing to emulate when working toward that new idea for a fiction piece. Lately I’ve read

5 Myths About Writing Science Fiction

So you want to write a science fiction novel.  However, you feel like you don’t know what you’re doing.  Perhaps you read science fiction like this humble author and you’d like to try your hand at writing something in the science fiction genre. Well, there are a few myths about science fiction novelists, and I’m

The Lost Soul and Characterization

I spent a wonderful afternoon yesterday hashing out the details of the latest Five Rims installment with my good friend and collaborator Jack Johnson.  If you don’t have a writing group from which you can bounce ideas around, you need to at least get a good friend who is also a writer or at least an

New Podcast Up: Everybody Was Kung Fu Farming

Richard Kutz and I absolutely love AMC’s Into the Badlands.  If you aren’t watching it right now, you should.  The writing is excellent, the world building is amazing and who doesn’t love farmers who know kung fu?  We also discuss a little known film that is close to our heart entitled Hunter/Prey.  The writing in this film

The Headless White Horse: My New Short Story Compilation

Well, it’s finally here.  The short story compilation has arrived, and thanks to Jack Johnson I have a fun promotional video to show it off: The synopsis of each story in the collection is as follows: “Rust” – Mars is now a prison mining colony where each prisoner has their own mine…and their own robot

Use Everything to Promote Everything

There is a solid reason I haven’t released my short story compilation recently.  In fact, I’m brushing on some finishing touches before it is released very soon. The fact is, I was ready over a week ago to release it, but after talking to a friend who had one of his brilliant ideas I realized

Cover Reveal: The Headless White Horse

Sometime after Christmas I will be releasing a collection of 10 short stories in the vein of Creepy Pasta.  I am working with the most fantastic cover designer who has created the following cover for the compilation.  The picture below is the full wrap-around cover with the author blurb on the back. His name is

School Started, So…

It’s been a busy month.  I haven’t posted in nearly three weeks, and that is really a record for me.  I usually post something about writing or at least something about my writing journey every week. I’ve been slacking. Actually, I’ve been insanely busy.  I’m in the middle of working on the third book in

Book Launch: The Terminarch War

The second book in the “Five Rims Series” is finally out.  I wanted to make sure it was perfect before releasing it.  I’m sure you’ll enjoy the further adventures of Guillermo March as he navigates the Five Rims in search of his purpose now that he is the last human in existence. It already has