Alien Sensation Launches, Fifth Novel of Other Worldly Series
Alien Sensation has launched in time for the summer solstice, but the opening scene takes place around the spring equinox. The timing might not be great with all the happenings in Congressional hearings, but this fifth novel of the Other Worldly series has its own investigative hearings, complete with bigoted Republican anti-alien blowhards (unfortunately). Not […]
If There’s “No Evidence,” Why Did Congress Hold Hearings?
“There’s no evidence that UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin.” A statement recently issued by NASA. I’ve heard astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson say as much in appearances on MSNBC. Perhaps this is evidence of folks who are envious of those of us who have our own personal evidence. Some don’t have to prove, or need proof, […]
Pushing Patriotism Under Disingenuous Guise of Innocence
What is it with adults who just can’t help themselves from pushing their selective version of patriotism—or religion couched as patriotic politics—on the rest of us? And when one pushes back, no matter how polite, or harsh yet pointed, the response to this encroachment, they act wounded. Turning the tables to deflect from their words […]
Calling Out Gun-Worshipping Fanatics for What They Are
The opening scene of Alien Sensation, fifth novel of the Other Worldly series coming later this month, involves a threat to protagonist Rowan Layne’s life by a gun-toting supposed “religious” fanatic who doesn’t like her speaking truth, or really speaking at all. Because he’s also a misogynist straight out of the Salem witch trial mentality. […]
Sidestepping the Humorless to Write What’s Funny
Now that my fifth book of the Other Worldly series, Alien Sensation, will launch this month, my mind travels back to all of the input, advice, criticisms and general commentary I’ve consumed and attempted to digest in the past four years regarding writing and the publishing process. The whole gamut can be a daunting prospect, […]
Gun Fetishists, Unmitigated Greed, and the Pathological Pursuit of Power
Three years ago in late May, just before Memorial Day, I wrote a newspaper column titled, “Patriots stand in front of a gun, not behind gun rights.” I was living in an insidiously toxic place called Lyon County in Nevada at the time, where that March all five county commissioners voted to declare it a […]
Tyrannical Timeline: A SCOTUS Backstory
In 2014, I published a nonfiction tome, Raising Questions: Daring to Denounce the Religious Right to Defend Our Civil Rights, in which I pitted the Bill of Rights of our Constitution against the Ten Commandments and tenets of the Catholic Church. The chapter on voting rights is prefaced with a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt: The […]
Heinous is the Hubris of Hateful Men Playing God
In the opening scene of my upcoming Alien Sensation, protagonist Rowan Layne is attacked by a misogynist reporter from Fox News in Salem, Massachusetts, followed by a pistol-packing religious zealot proclaiming her to be an abomination and a whore. After which she addresses the reporter: “When you file today’s story, do try to refrain from […]
Mother of All Wars Against Women
I recently posted about minor censorship issues occurring when I was a newspaper columnist in rural central Nevada. But I left out one instance of curious copy editing; a headline eschewed in my very last column. The media powers didn’t cotton to my observation that Supreme Court integrity was irrevocably eroded. That column was published […]
Avoiding Social Media Outcome Obsession
This time known to me as author’s limbo can be tricky. Awaiting the return of a manuscript from my editor while starting on the next story in my Other Worldly series, my head immersed in a new challenge with new secondary characters and outer space adventures. You’d think I’d be used to it, as this […]