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  • The Past Life Of Writing

    Looking at this picture of my past I can remember everything about that day: How I felt, whom I was with, where and why I was there.  I can recall the smell the salt in the air and the heat of the sand beneath my feet. But an odd thing happened the other day while attending a…

  • A Time To Krill

    Before every surf session I warm up on the beach.  It keeps me loose and responsive when I hit the water.  I’m about to go through a final full edit of my upcoming novel Silversides and below was my warm up exercise. (This short has nothing to do with the novel Silversides) A first-person Sci-Fi…

  • On this date, five years ago. Somewhere in NYC, I began to write.

    It is hard to believe that five years ago, on this date in a NYC coffee shop on the upper east side, I started my writing career. You can see other frustrated writers around me, but this cozy place became the catalyst for putting pen to paper, or in my case, fingers to keypad.  Since…

  • Sargassum and the art of writing about what you know

    Sargassum, as seen here in the curl of the wave, drifts ashore when the winds are steady, rolling into massive piles along the littoral zone, crucial for the ecology of barrier islands. Is it coincidence or by grand design that it is washing ashore during a super moon, when the highest of tides will push…

  • “Cover” makes it into Wattpad’s #1 WattZine!

    I was very pleased to see my Sci-Fi short (Cover) make it into Wattpad’s  #1 and longest running WattZine:  Tevun-Krus #49 – Best of 2K17 For the full list of Sci-Fi shorts, click here. Wattpad has been such a great platform for me, as a writer, to test the waters (no pun intended) with short stories…

  • Where Do Sci-Fi Writers Get Their Ideas? Part III

    EEven if you are not a writer, this is perhaps one of the most inspirational TED Talks I have ever watched (Anne Madden).  It should make you think, something our media is trying to suppress. I encourage every writer of sci-fi to watch and absorb.  Listen and let your creativity loose, let it be the…

  • Waiting For The Asteroid

    With June 30th approaching ( Asteroid Day), here are a few things you can research, read and watch to prepare yourself. RESEARCH:  Start with the leading authority of all things asteroids by going to Asteroidday.org. READ:  I had started a series of sci-fi shorts titled: End Of Days.  One of these stories deals specifically with an…

  • Red Velvet

    ADAPTATION SERIES: Red Velvet   “Tevis, have you located Newell?” “He’s out.” “Who let him out?” “No one.  He’s part of Ops and has the overrides. But with our EVs in maintenance, he’s out there on foot–” The pound of the colony commander’s fist on the table startled her; she had always thought of him as…

  • When sci-if meets science (Silversides)

    Real Science inspires SciFi This is exactly what I have been looking for in a the mask that my characters in the novel, Silversides, wear when they first land on Gliese 581 g to protect themselves against biologicals they yet do not have immunities for. It is so awesome to finally have a clear image,…

  • Under Eden

    END OF DAYS SERIES: Under Eden For other stories in this series, Click Here “Shite, that was close.” From the impact, the sky had lit up so bright we could see clearly down the street with its neatly parked cars, perfectly aligned like the teeth of a zipper. But no one was out and no lights…