Month: October 2018

I wanted to let you know that Mercenary Calling is on one of Amazon’s Kindle Countdowns today in the US and the UK until tomorrow morning.  Check it out if you want to pick it up for 99 cents or pence! Sample: Calvin Tondini had to squint against the glare to see the motorcade of…

My father has asked me to beta read his memoirs of our time in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.  We spent a little over three very happy years there.  We lived inside a giant, walled consular compound because my father was the Consoon American, the American Consul. Bouginvillea crawled over the latticework of the carport…

The weather is turning cold.  The leaves are falling.  Around here, we went from the 80’s and humid to the 50’s and arctic overnight, so the leaves aren’t turning.  Nonetheless, my mind lightly turns to thoughts of NaNo, in which one writes a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.  I have advice for…

I’ve wasted hours this weekend trying to restore the side bar to this blog and my space law site at groundbasedspacematters.com.  The sidebar doesn’t show on my home pages.  It shows on the other pages, but not on the first one.   My google-fu is failing me, and when I get This Close to installing…

Working on my new batch of Nwwwlf stories, I’ve been feeling super sorry for the women. The Martha’s Sons stories are set in the first century after landing on Nwwwlf, right smack dab in the middle of the whole sorry process of de-industrialiazation. The world still contains tantalizing glimpses of what humanity once had–a motorbike…

I enjoyed Capclave. It’s a science-fiction convention in Maryland put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association. I did a talk on space law that had a good number of people turn up. Someone who used to work at NASA as an engineer was in the audience, and everyone else seemed keen on the topic….