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We’ve been going to San Diego Comic Con for close to twenty years now, and it’s always a whirlwind of sights and sounds, friends, celebrities, crowds, freebies, costumes, crowds, and more crowds. In short, a madhouse, but in a good way.  Since the San Diego Convention Center is filled with pros and fans, I called […]

I just opened the front door and found a package on the porch—at last my copies of the new WordFire Press reissue of my novel HOPSCOTCH. This is one of my favorite novels, out of print for many years, although WordFire made it available as an eBook last year.  Now, those of you who prefer […]

It’s a hot topic among authors, many of them scrambling to put up as many of their titles as possible as ebooks. Many established authors can see the tide changing and feel the urgency, and they are climbing the learning curve as fast as possible. For my generation of writers, those who started publishing books […]

In 1898, H.G. Wells wrote his account of the Martian invasion, as seen through the eyes of a London newspaper reporter. But if this was truly a war of the worlds, the Martian cylinders and tripods landed all across the Earth.  What other accounts would have been written by the literary figures of the day? […]