Flashback Friday: Christmas Past
This week’s Flashback Friday: Christmas Past The first Christmas I remember involved a fake Cabbage Patch doll–fake because we were really poor and my family couldn’t afford the $40 or $50 stores were charging for the new “hot toy.” I Read More…
Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Some folks are probably asking what in the world does A Christmas Carol have to do with science fiction and fantasy? This classic is so deeply rooted in our literature Read More…
Flashback Friday: A Look Back
This week’s Flashback Friday: A Look Back. Today begins our Joy to the Worlds Book Tour. If you’d told me ten years or even five years ago that I’d be driving around the Pacific Northwest with three authors on a Read More…
What I’m…Update
What do Jessica Jones, Fallout 4, Amaskan’s War, and Old Man’s War have in common? Find out below. What I’m Reading What I’m Writing What I’m Playing What I’m Watching
Flashback Friday: Dear America
This week’s Flashback Friday: Dear America Dear America, You’ve probably seen it on social media as it’s making the rounds, but in the early days of World War II, we turned away Jewish refugees seeking asylum in the United States. Read More…
Flashforward Friday: Adventures in Space
For this week’s Flashforward Friday: Adventures in Space In the past few weeks, multiple scientific breakthroughs have occurred, resulting in some fascinating discoveries. It’s suspected that scientists have discovered a parallel universe leaking into ours. This information is based on Read More…
Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMo
This week’s Flashback Friday: NaNoWriMo My first NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) was back in 2008. I wrote what would later become The Eldest Silence–a first draft of 61,870 words. It was a mad dash that made me hold my Read More…
Flashforward Friday: Titanium Bones
For this week’s Flashforward Friday: Titanium Bones–the Beginning of New Bodies? This week I read about a cancer patient receiving a titanium rib cage, which amazed the hell out of me. Basically, this man in Spain had to have his Read More…
Flashforward Friday: Neurology
For this week’s Flashforward Friday: Neurology and the new strides science has made. Scientists have built artificial neurons that fully mimic human brain cells. Let that sink in for a moment. As someone who has neurological issues, I wanted to Read More…
Sometimes, Color Matters
For this week’s Flashforward Friday post, I’m looking at the future of speculative fiction in terms of film, especially the use of color, because sometimes, color matters. In film, color sets the mood of the scene. It transforms the plot Read More…
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