Lost in Space While Lost in Transit
I’ve needed comic relief while I await another print galley of Altogether Alien, being sent to my current address this time, or one can only hope. For this next book in the Other Worldly series, six times has not been a charm when it comes to the publishing process. Yes, delays happen, but a lack […]
March Roars In… Without My Next Book
March may have roared in like a lion outdoors, but not so much for the inside angst of my author life. Today’s blog post should have been, was supposed to have been, about the launch of my next novel of the Other Worldly series, Altogether Alien. It’s altogether annoying, frustrating, and disappointing that it is […]
Exploring Unconditional Love and Uninhabited Islands
Throughout my Other Worldly novels, I’ve had a grand adventure addressing—and sometimes solving with flagrant literary license—myriad mysteries involving aliens of the extraterrestrial kind, including the infamous Roswell, New Mexico, UFO crash, hushed happenings at Nevada’s Area 51, and saucer sightings in places like England’s Rendlesham Forest by US AF personnel in December 1980. Not […]
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, it’s a Weather Balloon?
Funny, but not really, how everyone seems to immediately assume that objects unidentifiable in the sky are some sort of sinister invader out to destroy us. Evil aliens to be blamed for all the foils of mankind. The very subject of my Other Worldly novels. Because what if aliens are visiting for a positive purpose? […]
It’s Written in the Clouds
Did you ever gaze up at clouds as a kid, or even an adult, and compare their shapes to animate objects? That one shaped like a heart, or a whale, or some kind of strange submarine… In my Other Worldly series, the shape of clouds, in particular ventricular clouds appearing like flying saucers, feature as […]
Otherworldly Past Life Regressions
I often jokingly refer to my former work as an attorney for the Department of Defense as a “past life.” But there are in fact those who espouse that, buried deep inside of our subconscious minds dwell memories—cognitive remnants—of actual past lives. As in, we were once someone else, perhaps even hundreds of years ago. […]
Write Like You’re Gazing into a Crystal Ball?
Sometimes it feels as if there’s a crystal ball kind of clairvoyance going on when I write each novel of my Other Worldly series. Or perhaps I fervently hope that if I write something, it might come to fruition in some form or another. Like, maybe, actual accountability for Earth’s all-too-human bad guys will eventually […]
Channeling Earth’s Terrain for Outer Space
When I first took the plunge and launched my Other Worldly series protagonist Rowan Layne into outer space, my greatest challenge was how would I describe what other planets, moons, and stars look like in terms of ecosystems? I didn’t want it to be trite or cheesy, and as always sought some semblance of believable […]
Crossing Genres as Vast as the Universe of Imagination
I just read an online Writer’s Digest article about writing across fiction genres and the challenge this inevitably presents with marketing folks. Because if you dare to encompass more than one established genre or subgenre, you aren’t fitting into the traditional publishing world’s edict of how they can make money. I’ve written about this in […]
New Year’s Resolutions from My Cat
I recently snapped a photo of my orange tabby critter sitting uncannily above my “Dear Santa, I can explain” Christmas decoration sign my sister gifted me years ago and got to thinking about what a cat’s new year’s resolutions might be. In particular, my feline Morris who is featured along with my dog Bodie in […]