Hello everyone, and a big welcome to my new subscribers! Well, Books by the Bay was a big hit! Pensacola is such a beautiful city. I met a lot of cool people, and the really cool part is that they are all readers! (Which is to be expected at a book fair.) I sold lots […]
Read more "Back from the Books by the Bay Festival"Hello, Everyone! And a big welcome to all my new subscribers! Welcome aboard! It was my plan to get one more interesting blog post in before Christmas, possibly something about the “AlCent Sagas” series or one of my other books, but the repair work on my house from the storm was finally able to get […]
Read more "Happy Holidays to Everyone!"Hello again, Everyone! The third book in the AlCent Sagas series is now out on Kindle! (The print version is still under review with Amazon, but I’m so excited about it I wanted to tell you as soon as the Kindle version came out.) In this novel we follow the investigations of Captain James Van […]
Read more "AlCent Sagas Book Three: Investigation is now released on Amazon!"AtomaCon 2024 in North Charleston, SC was a blast! Although foot traffic was a bit lighter than I could have wished (new venue), I got to meet a lot of cool and interesting people! I had lots of space to set up and sold more books than expected. And many took advantage of my free […]
Read more "Back from AtomaCon!"Recently while in West Virginia, we visited the New River Gorge Bridge and found out that it’s now part of the US Park Service! We’ve been over this bridge many times, and have even stopped to check out the visitor’s center, but on this trip we took some time to see much more. The views […]
Read more "New River Gorge Bridge"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"Recently my wife and I were able to visit the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia and it was a real eye opener! The facility was built like a fort, as it was once thought that architecture could have “curative effects” for the patients. Inside was even more impressive! There was much to see […]
Read more "Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum recent visit!"Back around 2000 when I first started worldbuilding the Alpha Centauri system for the AlCent Sagas series, astronomical knowledge of the binary star system was limited to the movements of the stars themselves. But now with the advent of the Kepler space telescope, as well as new methods used by ground based telescopes, exoplanets have […]
Read more "Exoplanets of the Alpha Centauri System"So I was doing some exploring on the Moon with my new Explore Scientific 10″ Hybrid Truss Dobsonian telescope and was amazed by the details. These first pix, taken by holding my cellphone up to the eyepiece, hardly do the views justice! I felt like I got my shoes dusty on the Moon. I see […]
Read more "First Moon Photos with New 10″ Dobsonian!"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 […]
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