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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Road Signs
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories -
Thoughts from the Aerie
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Memoirs and essays on a range of topics
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Category Archives: Memoir
Sweet Soft Rain
I don’t know if I’m ready to write about Seattle yet. I just got back a few months ago. I was born and raised here, but I’ve been gone for thirty-seven years. Being gone for so long puts things in … Continue reading
What Is It About Romance? …and Tragedy
I wrote my recent review of Neil Simon’s memoir “Rewrites” when I still had about twenty pages left to read. It turns out the last twenty pages are about Simon’s first wife’s battle with cancer and how he reacts to … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Reading
Tagged C. S. Lewis, cancer, Neil Simon, Rewrites, romance, Shadowlands
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The Rules for Alternative Realities
I have been giving a lot of thought lately to mistakes I might have made in the past. Let’s not say mistakes; let’s rather say that if I had to make certain choices over again that I made long decades … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged alternative realities, memoir, travel, Writing
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The Word Fountain
I just had to start writing again. It was driving me crazy. I write all day long, but it’s not the same thing. The writing I do for money consists of Internet articles that are bullshit, masticating and spitting out … Continue reading
My Favorite Books on Writing
I don’t think you can learn writing from a book. If it can be taught, it is more through osmosis, through absorbing everything around you, including books, personal experience, and insight from other writers. I hesitate to add writing classes, … Continue reading
How I Began Self-Publishing; Prelude: Greek Summers
Before I explain how I got started in self-publishing I need to explain about my summers in Greece. However, I have a confession to make. I will likely go into more detail than I need to because thinking about sunshine … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing
Tagged Greece, Greek beaches, Greek summers, self-publishing, Writing
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Book Review: Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
If I had to name the three writers most influential on my own career as a writer, they would be Jack London, Harlan Ellison, and Henry Miller. I would snap up a biography of Harlan Ellison in a moment, but … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Memoir, On Writing
Tagged Earle Labor, Jack London, Jack London Sailor on Horseback, Philip Seymour Hoffman, travel, Writing
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Self-Evaluation
I have reached a sort of limbo in my writing career. It has happened before; in fact, it used to happen every school term in Greece, especially around exam time. No matter what resolve I might muster up, no matter … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing
Tagged memoir, self-publishing, Writing, writing career, writing fulltime, writing income
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Book Review: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer; Part Two: The Frog in the Pot
Coming to the end of a great book is an exhilarating experience tempered only by the fact that the ride is over. This book, though it is a work of nonfiction, concludes like a novel, with a buildup in a … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Memoir
Tagged book review, Elysium, George Packer, memoir, Occupy Wall Street, Silicon Valley, The Unwinding
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