It’s decided – there will be a second volume in the Skinners saga. I’ve already started writing it, and I’m…
We’ve all heard the expression “Clothes make the man.” It’s a phrase to which Mark Twain added, rather gruffly, “Naked…
COWABUNGA! CONESTOGA? Not quite… Cuyahoga is a river flowing through northeast Ohio into Lake Erie. It gives its name to…
Sometimes word origins get shrouded in the mists of time, or cloaked in ignorance, or covered up by prudish authorities..…
Language: it’s one of those skills like walking or swimming that’s so well “suited” for nudity that you don’t need…
Now that Skinners is available for anyone to acquire and read, there’s an adjustment to be made for me. Writing…
It was that Monday-morning cold call, decades ago now, that got me started – the call on my office phone…
Many people are familiar with Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi’s concept of creative flow, that state when the pleasure one feels is perfectly…
Where categories of fiction are concerned, “speculative fiction” is most frequently defined as a big-tent term that can encompass everything…
This is the third in a series of posts that began with “Naked in the Garden” and continued with “The…