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Filter Words

I’ve been re-editing my work and realize my prevalence for filter language making my narrative stodgy. Here’s how I’ve been cleaning up my writing: WHAT ARE FILTER WORDS? Filter words are verbs or phrases that insert the narrator between the reader and the character’s direct expe…

Elara’s Journey: A Techno-Fantasy Adventure – pt5

“Okay,” he said. “We’re going out to the street and to the left. The subway is only a half block away. Hold on to my hand so we don’t get separated.” She nodded and took his hand. “I’m Elara,” she said softly as he stepped off. Finn stopped. He looked at her and smiled. “I’m Finn…

Elara’s Journey: A Techno-Fantasy Adventure – pt4

“Look, I want to help you, but I’ve got my own problems. Do you want help or not?” She nodded and stood. She was almost his height. “I need to find a man I don’t know, in a place I’ve never been, and my goddess has abandoned me. Can you help?” He was on the run for his life and s…

Elara’s Journey: A Techno-Fantasy Adventure – pt3

Elara is cast out of her world, the hell it was after her capture, and sent to a strange, new realm like nothing she had experienced before. Her connection to her goddess is weak. She is alone and afraid, but has a burning need to find some one. Alone and abandoned, Elara must fa…

Elara’s Journey: A Techno-Fantasy Adventure – pt2

Finn Miller, a quantum computing genius who once worked for the NSA, has discovered that the backdoor technology he created–allowing unprecedented access to every phone and router in the world–is being used by corrupt officials for blackmail, human trafficking, and consolidation …

Elara’s Journey: A Techno-Fantasy Adventure

Elara, a young priestess of the Moon Goddess, is captured, cursed, and transported to a technologically advanced world. She teams up with Finn, a brilliant engineer, to expose corrupt forces exploiting technology and bring justice. A thrilling tale of magic, technology, and self-…

Technomancer Review: Magic Meets Hackers in a New Adventure

Technomancer by Charlie Forêt An imaginative burst of technofantasy that deftly swings between philosophical depth, cutting-edge science, and gripping magical action, Technomancer by Charlie Forêt is a thrilling combination of genres. When a divine priestess from the realm of Ely…

Finn and Elara: Exploring Boundaries in a New Realm

Editing, Editing, Editing…when do I get back to writing? I am happy to say I’ve finished my editing and re-write of sections of A New Past to create a less explicit version of the story. I’m not getting the final formatting sorted out and posted on Amazon for publishing. It’s bee…

Exploring Character Conflicts in Another Past

As I’ve been re-editing Another Past: Book Two, it’s given me the opportunity to review some scenes I haven’t read or touched in nearly a decade. Here is one of my favorites, as Paul and Jeryl fit the first season of their reality-TV show, The Interns. THE SCENE Camera lights cam…

Another Past : Available on Amazon

I’m happy to announce Another Past: Book One is available for purchase on Amazon Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. It will be available for print orders (paperback and hardback) in the middle of the month as well. Meet Paul Taylor, a gifted teen with an extraordinary secret: he’s actu…

Oxford Comma vs. No Oxford Comma: What Writers Should Know

Which is the best for comma usage in fiction? To be, or not to be?  As I’ve been revising and editing Another Past: Book One, I’ve run into an inconsistency in my editing tools. In the review tools built into Ulysses, where my definitive content lives, Oxford commas are used. Thi…

Another Past: Book One

Meet Paul Taylor, a gifted teen with an extraordinary secret: he’s actually a brilliant physicist from the future, caught in a thrilling time-travel adventure! After being attacked and hurled back through time, Paul finds himself living his adolescent life once more. But this tim…