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There’s always a price tag on a trip. After returning from our 7-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and the Sharjah Book Fair, we had to make up for the lost work time.  We had delivered the manuscript for Star Challengers: Space Station Crisis from the hotel room in Sharjah, but now we had […]

Rebecca and I just got home Sunday night, after 23 hours in transit, from Dubai via Frankfurt then Denver. We were invited to be guest authors at the Sharjah Book Fair in the United Arab Emirates, a trade show that is also open to the public; they reported 600,000 attendees last year.  Our appearance came […]

My eco-thriller Ill Wind, written with Doug Beason, will be reprinted by Tor Books in January.  This will be its fourth edition, and the recent disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has made the story all too relevant. It’s the largest oil spill in history… A crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. […]

Catching up on last month’s trip.  In late September, the weather was turning cold and crisp, and we knew that the hiking season would soon draw to a close.  Time enough, though, for one last overnight expedition to hike a section in the Colorado Trail.  I was nearly finished with dictating my chapters in The […]