I am a reasonably successful self-published author ("successful" means I can pay the bills and am highly rated in my Amazon category), former financial advisor (writing is more fun), and have something in common with Mitt Romney and Donny Osmond. Guess.
Hello, everyone! I hope 2025 is winding to a successful close for all of you, and that your Christmas will be merry and bright this year. It’s been an interesting year for me; as usual I’m behind on my self-imposed writing schedule, although Reveille continues to progress and I should have Advance Reader Chapters up … More Happy Holidays!
Here is is! Just 6 months late this time, I’m getting a bit better. But seriously, Terminal Engagement has been a beast. It’s a lesson in what happens when a plot-point that’s supposed to be resolved in the first act of a four-act play grows to eat up the entire thing. The result is, I … More Terminal Engagement Is Now Up!
Happy New Year, everyone, and isn’t this a great time to be alive? Yes, we have problems. When hasn’t that been true? It’s 2025, and looking back just one century to 1925, penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, hadn’t been discovered yet. Switchboard operator was a cutting-edge tech job. In the US, being poor meant … More Here’s to us!
Wow it’s been awhile since I’ve posted here. But I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving (and is surviving Black Friday). If you’re not an American, Thanksgiving is the day we give thanks for what we have, Black Friday is the day we try and score great deals on what we don’t. In the spirit … More Black Friday Sale
It’s been awhile since I’ve done a Radical Moderate post, and in these extremely polarized times maybe it’s not a good idea to revive my practice of spouting off about some political issue that bothers me. But today, in Dungeon’s and Dragons terms, I failed my Wisdom Check. So . . . let’s talk about … More To Peaceably Assemble.
Don’t get excited, it’s not available in hardback. Yet. So Week 1 of the Rising Tides release is over, and, wow. I’ve got to say I didn’t expect this. Hoped for it, you bet, but with the book over a year late, and not an Astra story, I was sort of wondering how much enthusiasm … More Yes Capes!
Yes, it’s here. I realize that, back at the end of February, I said Rising Tides, Capes Book 1, was finished. And it was. Then my principle readers plowed through the “finished” manuscript, and each of them individually, without coordination, told me There Was A Problem. And there was. That problem is now fixed, but … More The Tide is Rising
It’s done. Over a year late and the source of such frustration I almost abandoned it a couple of times, but it’s done. By “done” I mean that my first full draft is completed and is now being read by several trusted alpha-readers, which means that Capes: Rising Tides is now about 2-3 weeks from … More Announcing CAPES: RISING TIDES.
Last Monday, I and a friend who have made a ritual of catching every Marvel Movie in the theater together went and caught The Marvels. Preparing for it, I did my usual thing which is to completely ignore all pre-release hype and post-release criticism; I try and see each new movie with no preconceptions of … More The Marvels Is Fun, But Not Marvelous.
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Well, nobody’s reported me dead but I just looked up and realized that I haven’t posted here in months so people might have been growing concerned. So, I am well. Oh, you want to know more? Like “Where the heck is Capes?” Capes has been delayed by … More I Am Well.
Marion G. Harmon, A Writer in Vegas. 