I have been a listener of audiobooks for many years, and I enjoy having a good novel with me, playing on my car stereo whenever I go off on my hikes. Listening to verbal storytelling seems natural to me—no surprise, since I write by dictating into a recorder. Audible.com has just released a new batch of audiobook versions of some of my classic novels, all read by Jim Meskimen. These are my favorites of my backlist novels, and I'm grateful that audible has brought them out. The new titles include Captain Nemo, Climbing Olympus, Resurrection, Inc., Hopscotch, and Blindfold.  All...
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I have been a listener of audiobooks for many years, and I enjoy having a good novel with me, playing on my car stereo whenever I go off on my hikes. Listening to verbal storytelling seems natural to me—no surprise, since I write by dictating into a recorder. Audible.com has just released a new batch of audiobook versions of some of my classic novels, all read by Jim Meskimen. These are my favorites of my backlist novels, and I'm grateful that audible has brought them out. The new titles include Captain Nemo, Climbing Olympus, Resurrection, Inc., Hopscotch, and Blindfold.  All...
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Working through the library, we have made more titles available in all eReader formats. ALTERNITECH is a sequence of intertwined alternate-timeline stories all centered around the future corporation of Alternitech.  It has never previously appeared in standalone book form. “Alternitech” is a company that sends prospectors into alternate but similar timelines, where tiny differences yield significant changes: a world where the Beatles never broke up, or where Lee Harvey Oswald wasn’t gunned down after the Kennedy assassination, where an accidental medical breakthrough offers the cure to a certain disease, where a struggling author really did write the great American novel,...
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For the Fourth of July, some reminiscences about how I followed my dreams and never gave up wanting to become a writer. Recurring Dreams I was always certain I would be a writer. While friends talked about wanting to become astronauts or firemen or even the President (yes, it was a long time ago), I knew from age five that I wanted to write stories for a living. Even before I could read or write, I drew pictures on scraps of paper, laid them out on the floor, and told stories aloud to anyone who would listen. I was enamored...
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