Psychological Fiction and Nonfiction
Intelligent Things, the third book in the Newcomers trilogy, has qualified as a semi-finalist for the prestigious Cygna Award in Sci-fi. A “semi-finalist” is one level of filtering better than “shortlisted” in their schema. A “semifinalist” win is not a…
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Getting reviews for self-published books is tougher than panning for gold. You have to ask for user reviews, even from your friends, over and over. When I finish reading a book, I feel like telling someone. I usually write something…
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My new nonfiction book comes to life online today. Publish Your Novel Online for Under $500: A Step-by-step Guide for Writers, is the self-explanatory title. It’s online at Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VYLVVTT) as a Kindle ebook or as a paperback. I have…
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Alien Body, First in the Phane series of psychological sci-fi from Psi-FiBooks.com, launches September 1, 2019. This series focuses on the perplexity of embodiment. Who hasn’t wondered what it would be like to be a dog or a bird? And…
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Alien Talk, the second in the Newcomers series, has won an honorable mention. It was a finalist in the American Fiction Awards contest for 2019. So it didn’t win, but it “was a contendah!” We’ll take our gold-foil embossed stickers…
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Smashwords.com, where I published my “Newcomers” trilogy in epub electronic format, is having a big sale, so this is your chance to get some great android stories on the cheap. These are full, exciting novels in nice electronic formats. For…
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Intelligent Things is starting to get some reviews, which is always a relief. Nothing’s worse for a published work than silence. But I did have a slight panic attack as I re-read a proof copy. In the novel, the creator…
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Intelligent Things, the third novel in the Newcomer Series, is available on Amazon as a Kindle ebook or a 6×9 paperback (or both: if you buy the print copy, Amazon will throw in a free ebook copy). It’s also available…
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Reluctant Android won an Honorable Mention in the Writers Digest Self-Published E-book awards for 2018. Contest Judges said: “…a fast-paced morality tale, one that blends bleeding-edge science with deep philosophical questions for a high-throttle page-turner.” “The narrative here is tightly…
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The Internet of Things is sneaking up on us. I was surprised to learn that my new noise-cancelling headphones use artificial intelligence. Not only do they talk (a slightly robotic voice announces the battery status), but they are connected to…
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