Hi, All!   Hope your Super Bowl weekend was pleasurable, even if you are a Patriot fan. If so, my condolences… that was brutal. On the other hand, if you’re a Seahawks’ fan you had a pretty good time. I have to walk a fine line up here in the Pacific NW. I’m from the Bay Area, San Jose to be precise, so I’m a lifelong 49er fan. I do like the Seahawks, and I cheer for them all season long, well, except for those two games.   If you’re not an NFL fan, then your weekend was what

This week’s been flat out awesome. I was interviewed Tuesday for a couple of hours on the Blasters and Blades Podcast, and the national show will air in mid-February. I’ll be sure and put up the date when it’s in stone. The podcast is for sci-fi authors, and I have to tell you I was impressed with the host JR Handley. Great questions, and a true love of the genre. He asked if I’d sit in on a panel discussing some of the current and classic science fiction books and movies.  

So, the craziness has begun, but how much fun that whirlwind can be! The military sci-fi anthology that Bill Webb choreographed is coming out in the Spring, so a little earlier than we’d thought. The story I wrote, and Kevin Steverson edited, is one of the origin stories in that book. I’m about two-thirds through writing book one of an exciting new series about the Marine Corps in the 23 rd  century. As one of my Beta readers would say, “Oorah!” This book will also be release

The holiday season has come and gone. And with it, all of the ‘chill’ time that happens from the middle of December until the cold dawn of a January morning in the Pacific Northwest. All of a sudden it’s 2026… and I was just getting used to writing 2025 on correspondence!   All sorts of new adventures to contemplate this year in our household. My wife ended her career in high end retail jewelry and has entered into a brand-new undertaking with a fellow sales associate and the