Blizzard of 2010 (#1)

A major snowstorm is expected to move into the Metro DC area tomorrow.  Beginning late morning and running through Saturday night, we are forecast to get anywhere from 16-28 inches of snow.  Winds will make blizzard-like conditions at times.  Friday is Kelly’s day off so she will be home.  We’re keeping Zach home from daycare. [...]

Writers woes

I haven’t written at all this week.  It’s not because I lack the ideas.  I think there are 3 reasons for it: I am mentally reworking the story that I was writing.  This comes from some of the workshopping I did two summers ago.  I could see problems with the story as it was going, [...]

New updates on the Little Zipper

With my update on this blog earlier, I wanted to also post a reminder that Kelly and I do have a separate protected blog with updates on Zachary.  Until a few days ago, that blog hadn’t been updated in a while, but we’ve both made updates in the last few days.  Aa any parent knows, [...]

Transition to WordPress

After nearly a year of playing with WordPress behind the scenes, I have decided to begin the gradual transition from LiveJournal to WordPress once and for all.  As part of this transition, the following will be taking place in the short-term: All blog posts will continue to be cross-posted to LiveJournal and Facebook LiveJournal posts [...]

Descended from Darkness only $2 on Kindle!

Hey! All Apex Books available on Kindle are only $2 this month! That means if you haven’t already picked up a copy of Descended From Darkness, the dark-sf anthology containing my story, “Hindsight, In Neon” you can now get it for only $2. Don’t own a Kindle? The Kindle version is still available for the [...]

A review of C. M. Kornbluth by Mark Rich (4-stars)

I posted this review on Goodreads, LibraryThing and Amazon as always, but I thought it was an important enough book to post it here to: A wonderful romp through Golden Age fandom! What a terrific book! I’ve long been an admirer of Cyril Kornbluth’s fiction, having read His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science [...]

A review of C. M. Kornbluth by Mark Rich

I posted this review on Goodreads, LibraryThing and Amazon as always, but I thought it was an important enough book to post it here to: A wonderful romp through Golden Age fandom! What a terrific book! I’ve long been an admirer of Cyril Kornbluth’s fiction, having read His Share of Glory: The Complete Short Science [...]

A world without television

I have this romanticized notion of what the world might be like without television.  Part of this comes my reading of the Golden Age of science fiction, which is generally agreed to have taken place from 1939-1949 or so.  Part of it comes from when my Grandpa used to talk about what it was like [...]

Book signing

Yesterday, I wandered over to a friend’s house–we’ll call him "Todd"–to borrow shovel.  While there, he told me he’d received his copy of DESCENDED FROM DARKNESS, the anthology of short fiction containing my story, "Hindsight, In Neon".  He asked me to sign it.  I think it was a fair trade, considering he was loaning me his shovel.  (I managed [...]