January 17, 2026 There’s an old song with the lyrics “time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future...” (bonus points if you can guess what song and group it’s from). But I definitely get that feeling with the start of 2026. We’re already more than halfway through the first month! I’ve heard that you shouldn’t wish people a happy new year after the first week, but I’m going to do it anyway since this is the first contact I’ve had with you. Happy New Year! I don’t

Last weekend was Game-A-Con in Palm Desert. It was my first mall event, and after the enormity of L.A. Comic Con, I wasn’t sure what to expect. What transpired blew my mind… Game-A-Con ended up being my best show to date! I met a lot of Sci-Fi fans who were eager to read a great story and support an indie author. Three readers even bought complete sets of the Mechhaven series (5 novels + 2 novellas). As far as I could tell, I was the only author there. Everyone else was selli

Greetings! It’s been a month since we last connected, and let me tell you, it has been quite the month! Toward the end of October, I was planning on finishing a Mechhaven novella, but for a variety of reasons I just couldn’t get it done, so instead of fighting the muses, I switched gears to my new project—a fantasy series—and the words flowed! During the first week of November, I attended Author Nation in Las Vegas. It was a very fun writing conference. Authors of all levels

12/20/2025 I almost titled this newsletter “I fought the law (Murphy’s) and the law (Murphy’s) won.” A couple of weeks ago, on a Friday afternoon, my son’s car broke down on his way to work. It was too late to tow it to a dealer, so we had it towed home, then had it towed to the dealer the following morning. We discovered the repairs would be quite expensive, and since the car was older and paid off, we decided it would be a good time to get our son a new car. Besides, he nee