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The Quiet Apocalypse
Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode Three : The Quiet Apocalypse This post accompanies Episode 3 of An Author’s Voice. If you haven’t listened yet, the …
The 14-Chapter Silence: Writing Trauma Without Putting It on the Page
Content Warning: This post discusses the craft of writing sexual assault aftermath in fiction. Here is a scene I chose not to write. It would have been the scene where everything that shapes Elara’s subsequent behavior in Technomancer actually happened — the event that explains h…
Signal Zero
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A Whole New Universe
I’m excited to announce a new series I’ve started working on called The Integration Era. This will be a Sci-Fi LitRPG series set in the far future. I’ll be posting short stories that form the background of this universe here for subscribers. Sign-up today to gain access to these …
Six Voices, Zero Tags: Why Character Voice is Constraints, Not Personality
There’s a test I run on every POV chapter in Technomancer: strip the chapter heading and ask whether the reader can still tell who’s talking. If the answer is no — if the voice could belong to any of the six point-of-view characters — the chapter isn’t ready. Not because the pros…
The Dirty Secret of First Person
Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode Two : The Dirty Secret of First Person: Your Narrator Is Lying You know that feeling — three chapters into a novel, …
Both Ages at Once: Writing a Narrator Who Is Simultaneously 65 and 15
There are two ways to fail this particular craft problem, and they both destroy reader trust in different directions. Paul Taylor in Another Past is sixty-five years old — a physicist who died in a lab explosion and woke up fourteen years old in 1979. He has the full memory and e…
Writing update – March 2026
I’ve been busy writing, editing, and working on my marketing via social media lately. Here’s a brief update on what’s been happening in my world of writing. Technomancer Book 2 Beta reading has begun on Technomancer: The Awakened Mage. Advanced Reader Copies (ARC) should be sent …
Book Battles – Ep3
Watch Book Battles on YouTube. Episode 3 (April 2026) **Sci vs Fi **has The Hunger Games vs Harry Potter. Both are blockbuster franchises now, but how do the books compare? Something Old features* The Fountains of Paradise* by Arthur C. Clarke. If winning the Hugo and Nebula awar…
The Perception Gap
Voices by Speechify Welcome to “An Author’s Voice” where I’ll discuss the craft behind writing and illustrate the points with my own work or discuss other well known examples. Episode One : The Perception Filter Technomancer is a multiple POV novel blending science fiction and fa…
Book Battles – Ep2
Watch this Episode on YouTube. **Sci vs Fi **pits The Dragonriders of Pern against Game of Thrones. If you are a fan of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy, watch the episode to see how it stacks up to one of the classics from Science Fiction. **Something Old takes a look at Roger …
“Ask this Book”???
Amazon has rolled out a feature for Kindle-based ebooks. If you haven’t seen stories on this, you should check out thesearticles. **The short version: **Amazon AI will generate answers to questions about your books. This seems like a neat feature for readers, which is how Amazon …