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Off to the editor
Book 1 of Insurgent is off to the editor and a small circle of beta readers. Hoping to swing right into the second episode. I have the second draft of the entire thing written, so now its a matter of polishing and finalizing each episode, getting them to the editor and putting it out. Will [...]
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Insurgent
First draft is: completed. It’s rough, disorganized, messy, full of typos, unreadable. But finished. This evening I start rewriting.
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Review: Tommy Nightmare by JL Bryan
Not long ago I read J.L. Bryan’s Dominion, which for quite a long time had been paired with one of my books on Amazon. Overall I loved the book, and went on to read Jenny Pox, a sort of paranormal fantasy. The premise of Jenny Pox is simple: teenage girl whose touch causes people to [...]
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Apple iBooks
Good news here, Republic is now available from the Apple iBookstore. Check it out here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/republic-a-novel-americas/id424103386?mt=11&ls=1
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Insurgent Chapter 4.4
As the line of humvees pulled into the town, Turville thought that Whitesville looked considerably better when they weren’t being shot at. That wasn’t likely at this point. First squad had already split off from the column and begun setting up the TCP, or tactical check point—a fancy term for road-block—two hundred meters before reaching [...]
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Dear Daddy
The other day, when I drove your car back to the apartment, the song on your mp3 player was Jim Croce’s Rapid Roy Stockcar Boy. Hard to get my mind around the idea that this was the last song you listened to before you left this earth.
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Energy Bill Bankrupts Our Future
Originally published on Alternet June 23, 2003. In what may be the worst piece of legislation the Senate has passed in decades (and they’ve had some whoppers), the Senate voted last week for a huge corporate boondoggle that will not only help bankrupt our country, but will guarantee long-term environmental damage, a rise in cancer [...]
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What Will I Tell My Children?
I’ll never forget the morning of February 27, 1991. As a young U.S. Army tanker, near the banks of the Euphrates River, two trucks raced through our position at roughly 2 a.m. We opened fire. One truck carried fuel and splashed its burning cargo on the other, and burning men ran everywhere, only to be [...]
