Finally!

On the first of the month I finally finished A Chip In Time and posted it for sale on Kindle. This represents an accomplishment of sorts, since this was actually my first published novel (out of a drawer full of finished manuscripts) and I think it is a good read, a good story.

I decided to publish this through Amazon so it could join its companion piece The Hand Is Quicker. Together they represent over 310,000 words describing my vision of a future high-tech Las Vegas with accompanying high-tech bad guys to go along with the glitter and glamor of Sin City.

Thanks to Christopher for another great cover, hopefully this image will evoke thoughts as to what is contained within the electronic covers. This would be classified as mature reading material and it does contain mature language and situations. You would expect as much when looking through the hard-boiled eyes of Danny DeVille of Triple-D Investigations. Complete with a beautiful agent from the future, assorted government baddies, plenty of action, and the ultimate descent down the rabbit hole -- an alien time machine -- this book has it all.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007415MG0

The story was completely rewritten and has some new content, but it is very close to the original paperback version. Your comments and feedback are welcome!

The Plot Thickens

What drives me to write? What drives the plot? One simple answer. Imagination.

I started reading sci-fi back in the 1950's and once I got hooked on Asimov, Heinlein, Bradbury, Clarke, and the like, I have always wondered, What's Really Out There?

During my stint in the Air Force, where I served as a Chinese Linguist, I had a close encounter. It was in February of 1967 out in the desert south of San Angelo, Texas. I started writing that experience once I got out of the service (didn't want to jeopardize my TS clearance while I was in) and the unfinished manuscript still languishes in my desk drawer. I cannot complete it for some reason, probably a mental block, probably the inability to string the right words together to make it acceptable reading material for folks of all ages.

Back in the day, when Project Blue Book was hot, I wondered just what was hidden behind those chain-links up in Area 51. I wondered what those lights in the sky over my childhood home in Washington, DC, in the 1950's really were. I wondered about the Drake Equation, I wondered about the universe at large.

In trying to square that circle of mysteries, I decided to write one of my own. Partially inspired by "By His Bootstraps" (Heinlein writing as Anson MacDonald, I think) I presented a time-travel, Area 51, multiple universe, alien technology sci-fi thriller of my own. A Chip In Time.

Tomorrow: Inspiration and attitude.