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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 …
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…