The Worlds - lite

I hear it's Halloween. Faaabulous! Here in the Hudson Valley, everyone is Halloween-mad (which you'd know if you read Xmas Carol...

Moving is awful. You think it's going to be really, really bad -- but in the end, it's even worse. Much worse. I don't know...

When I was writing Xmas Carol , I was happier than I thought possible. Coming up with the plot, living every day with the story, honing...

I woke up this morning to discover a new, positive review for Xmas Carol at Amazon. Now, that's how to say Merry Xmas (to me, anyway)...

I don't know about you, but Xmas seems like a pushy guest this year. It wants to move in right now -- but it's far too soon. Thi...

It cometh, at least in the northeast. It will be cold this weekend and there will be a brutal, cutting wind. And at the very same time, as...

I thought returning to writing fiction would be difficult, that I'd have to resort to beating myself with Opus Dei whips or something....

Today is a very sad day. There's only one game left in the regular baseball season. Baseball means a lot to me. It's everything ab...

In a post at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Ed Brayton quotes a religious wingnut who thinks, or at least says, that atheists don...

I'm sorry that I'm neglecting the blog lately. I figure there must be two, or maybe even three, readers out there who miss it. But...

Two things: 1. I increased the price of Xmas Carol to $5.99. Lots of people urged me to do this (even Annie and my dentist, fer god...

I received good news yesterday. Casey Shain agreed to do the cover for the next book. Woo hoo! He's the artist who created the Xmas Ca...

Via Ed Brayton , I learned that Sarah Palin has a new book out -- and it's about Christmas. Wow, huh? I'll bet reading the book i...

New readers of this blog may not know that I intend to (almost) stop blogging when the World Series ends. It's time to write the next ...

There's a new review of Xmas Carol at Amazon today. Short but sweet: I am a reader who often gets bored with fiction and non ficti...

When I went out yesterday, all the stores had huge Halloween displays. It was a bit of a shock, but then it is getting cool around here....

It's time to write my next book, "The Worlds". As a consequence, I won't be blogging very much in the coming months. Sor...

I've decided not to hide the point of Xmas Carol. I never mentioned atheism in the short book description on Amazon. Friends kept tell...

Compared to Google Glass, these glasses are more like the "Visors" in Xmas Carol . They're still a far cry from the technolo...

A few readers contacted me this week to say they're enjoying Xmas Carol . I love when people give me a shout-out, especially if they...