I am in port but not yet ashore, and will leave the boat early tomorrow to catch my 0900 flight home. Here I am with my medal and certificate as an Iron Diver, for “completing all available dives” during my week aboard the Turks & Caicos Aggressor.   (That would be 26.) They misspelled my name, […]

It’s not as if you haven’t already had plenty of chances to buy my novel Knight Moves, but here’s another:  as a way to welcome in 2016, I’ve put it on sale for 99 cents. Happy New Year! You may find this Philip K. Dick Award- nominated masterpiece at Amazon, iBooks, Google, Smashwords, Barnes & […]

Looking back from late December 2015, it’s clear that veterans of Taos Toolbox had a great year. Lawrence Schoen’s Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard has only been available for a few days, but is already creating quite a buzz. One review claims it “resurrects the smart science fantasy novel,” which is a nifty trick for a book […]

2016 is almost upon us, and of course you’re going to want a large, full-color, deluxe wall calendar, because they are awesome.  Not to mention full of great photos that you can frame and pretend you took yourself. And of course you’ll have a choice. Here, for example, is the Vladimir Putin calendar, in which you […]