Lo and behold! My novella “Daybreak on Shining Mountain” just appeared this week in Issue #2 of Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine. I played BattleTech WAAAYY back in 80s and 90s. It’s one of tabletop wargaming’s most venerable properties, as well as having done some amazing video game renditions in recent years, so it’s a thrill to write some fiction for it. “Daybreak on Shining Mountain” is about a lost, forgotten colony, way out on the galactic periphery, going about their business, waiting for some sort of contact with the rest of human civilization. Their FTL communications are down. It takesContinue readingNew BattleTech Fiction in Shrapnel #2!

Just this morning, I received an email that my horror feature screenplay Where the Devil Resides was just named an Official Selection at the Shockfest Film Festival. *cue happy dance!* What does this mean? Well, I get to add another laurel to the poster below. Maybe on November 13, it will win Best Screenplay. Maybe if I get enough of these, the right people will pay attention when I call them. Stay tuned. 🙂

I really enjoy writing books for middle-grade. It lets my imagination fly like it did when I was eleven.  I just released the sixth book in my Adventure Kids series, Preston and the Great Airship Caper. Because who didn’t want to fly like Superman or Supergirl when they were a kid? Look! Up in the sky! Preston loves taking care his family’s farm animals, especially the little ones, like puppies and kittens.But when all the animals suddenly disappear, he realizes there must be some serious skulduggery afoot!Being turned into a superhero isn’t what he was expecting today, but a dusting ofContinue readingAdventure Kids #6 – Preston and the Great Airship Caper

This time in mass market paperback! I’m super-proud of my short story “Blood Lust and Gold Dust” in Baen Books’ weird western anthology, Straight Outta Deadwood, even more so now that the mass market paperback has hit the streets. I was so happy to take part in the Baen Podcast recently with several of the authors from the anthology. When the episode goes live, I’ll be sure to post a link. Great fun with authors Charlaine Harris (I really enjoyed HBO’s True Blood and her Sookie Stackhouse novels), D.J. Butler, Betsy Dornbusch, and editor David Boop. First there was Straight Outta Tombstone.  NowContinue readingSTRAIGHT OUTTA DEADWOOD Rides Again!

About five years ago, I was at a birthday party for one of my wife’s colleagues, and was busy circulating around the room, chatting with people, drink in hand. I struck up a conversation with a woman who raised horses for a living. “So, what do you do for work?” she asked me. “I’m a writer.” “Oh. So, you don’t then.” Rather than purposefully spill my beer on her, I quickly found other people to chat with. For a society that so voraciously consumes art, we don’t seem to place much value on those that create it. Musicians, painters, screenwriters,Continue readingJunk Magic and Guitar Dreams – The Audiobook!

Let’s have birthday cake. 🙂 It’s not my birthday (although you’re welcome to send me presents in October). It’s a book birthday! Specifically Blackbelt Chloe and the Birthday Cake Catastrophe. This book was so much fun to write. Just ask the people who kept yelling at me from the living room, “What are you giggling about in there?” I was just sitting in my office chortling away as I typed. You may be sensing a theme in my stories: I love mysteries, martial arts, and monsters. If you do, too, you’ll love this one. The birthday party will be ruined! Chloe had noContinue readingIt’s a Book Birthday!