Once upon a time and not so very long ago, science fiction found its inspiration in the near solar system: landing on the moon was science fiction. Landing on Mars was outright fantasy. ...

The five most common things that keeps you from writing:

Your not in the mood.

Your sick, and your fingers are slow at the keyboard.

Your head hurts because your sick and tired to pounding at a glowing screen.

You don’t have the time, going out and having fun, is more exciting than writing.

Your simply discouraged to do so, or have writers block.

There are countless things that can keep you from writing, and the sad reality of it all is that we allow it to happen. I’m sure that half the people reading this are already writing comfortably ...

Nobody was more surprised than the author that WARCHILD came out the way it did. I was working on a fantasy novel when a character’s little voice propelled me to the computer one day and strung out what eventually ...

Sounds ridiculous, I know, but it is relevant in ways you might not have suspected. I keep a print of Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Memory" on my wall, the one with the melting clocks, to remind me ...

Dear Reader,

I’ve long been a great admirer of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings but have always avoided writing in that "High Fantasy" mode for fear of being lumped in with Tolkien’s many imitators. ...