Hello everyone, and a big welcome to my new subscribers! I apologize for neglecting to send out any new posts lately. Our post-Helene house cleanups and repairs have taken a new direction as we prepare the house for sale. This has been a bummer for me, as living by the sea has been an answer […]
Read more "A Novelist Grapples with the Scale of the Universe"Hey, everyone! This weekend I’ll be at the 2025 MarsCon at the Holiday Inn in Virginia Beach, VA! Come in and take a break from the cold and have some fun with all the activities on the “Red Planet!” And don’t forget to get a free Kindle copy of AlCent Sagas: Book One – Formation […]
Read more "Meet me at MarsCon 2025!"Hey, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We sure did! After the Miami Book Fair we stayed on with family who live in Homestead and spent the holiday with them. At one point I got to take my 10″ Dobsonian telescope out to Flamingo in the Everglades where the skies are […]
Read more "Pyramids on the Moon?"As NASA released this image of a Martian sunset from the Curiosity rover, it reminded me of a scene in my sci-fi novel Mariner Valley when the main character Ben O’Ryan views a Mars sunset from a place north of Vallis Marineris. Read the excerpt below – “It has been said, and generally agreed upon […]
Read more "Martian Sunset"Hey, Everyone! I’ll be at the Wytheville UFO fest on Saturday, June 8th! https://www.wythevilleufofest.com/ If the high summer temps are weighing you down, come on up to the mountains of western Virginia for a cool gathering of UFO aficionados and Sci-Fi fans! It will be held at the Wytheville Community Center and admission is free! […]
Read more "Meet me this weekend at the UFO Fest in Wytheville, VA!"Calling all fans! Calling all fans! I will be attending the 2024 AtomaCon this weekend at Trident Technical College on Rivers Ave in North Charleston! Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th! Come meet me and take advantage of a conference special freebie! All of my books will be available for signed copies (except for […]
Read more "Meet me at AtomaCon 2024 in North Charleston!"Recently I watched the amazing documentary “Blue Planet Red” and found it a mind blowing experience! This award winning video by Brian Dobbs presents compelling evidence that life might have existed on Mars eons ago, and may exist in some form now. Stunning photographic evidence coupled with extensive interviews of scientists from NASA and other […]
Read more "Was there life on Mars? Could life be there now? Blue Planet Red"As I mentioned in my novel Mariner Valley, many of the bases on Mars were built over underground water deposits that facilitated human settlements. Now, thanks to the Mars Express’s MARSIS radar a major deposit has been found under the surface in the Medusae Fossae Formation. What I had supposed to be a necessity for […]
Read more "Underground water deposits found on Mars!"So after the success of acquiring my Meade 90 ETX, I got a bad case of aperture fever and started looking. As some of you may already know, aperture fever is when you’ve had a taste of astronomy and suddenly want a bigger scope! The ETX is great for the Moon and planets, and some […]
Read more "Severe case of aperture fever results in a new scope!"Well, we’re back home and MarsCon was a smashing success for me! I got to meet all kinds of interesting people and met many new readers of my work. I sold over 50 copies of Mariner Valley and Seed of Aldebaran in print, eBook, and audio! I was also able to introduce people to the […]
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james crawford 