Murder at Minstrel Manor has gone to beta readers today. Unless they slag it hopelessly, I may be able to publish it sometime in the spring.

With prodigious effort I finished the chapter-by-chapter rewrite of Murder at Minstrel Manor and then a pass-through for copyediting,...

Writing got put on hold for a several weeks when our entire household got knocked out with COVID; so did my forensic expert. I’m just...

Laurel and I had a joint book sale and signing at a craft fair yesterday and it went very well. Laurel sold 5 copies of her latest novel,...

Where does the time go? Actually, I know: since the last update I’ve been concentrating on revising a mystery novel I wrote years ago....

The Zoe stories are moving on apace. I’ve finished Zoe 4; now it’s a question of whether I move on to Zoe 5 or switch over to another...

As you have no doubt gathered from the home page, my novelette Odyssey to Earth is up on Amazon. Hooray!

The novelette is back from the copyeditor with a list of typos, so next on the agenda is to fix them and format the finished product in...

Things are moving slowly, but they are moving. The back trouble turned out to be caused by deeper health issues which are now under...

Over a month again; clearly I haven’t done better. I’ve finally finished the space serial (somewhat handicapped by a spell of back...

Over a month since I last posted? I need to do better. I wound up not sending the space serial to the magazine. (Rookie mistake: I’d only...

Amazon has made the paperback of UNEXPECTED TALES available again! Finished Parts 5 and 6 of the serial. Typed up Parts 1 and 2 (my...

February, so far, has been a little more productive: I've finished Part 3 and Part 4. Two parts to go. DESTROYER was turned down (again).

For some reason Amazon seems to have decided not to sell the paperback of UNEXPECTED TALES (still selling the e-book). I’ve tried to work...

I had to put THE OTHERSPACE PIRATE on the back burner when I realized that it wasn't working: I hadn't set up the protagonist to be...

The Amazon glitch has been removed (hooray!). I finished work on the story I was revising (DESTROYER IN THE DUST) and sent it out. I had...

"Unexpected Tales from A to Z" is now available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. There seems to be a little glitch in getting it released...

Welcome to my author's blog. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it (doubtless it will evolve), but one thing I can do is post status...