Your support helps keep the words flowing!

-

World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
-
Road Signs
-

A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories -
Thoughts from the Aerie
-

-
Memoirs and essays on a range of topics
-
Silent Interviews
-

Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
-

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
Tag Archives: Jack London
The Dark Night of a Writer’s Soul
Second prelude: Outside my window the apartment parking lot and cars are dusted with snow. I was going to sit down and write an essay about my current state of mind, and was going to refer to the stunningly poetic … Continue reading
A Tale of Three Jackets
In order to help you understand this completely I need to tell you an anecdote about my father. He had a great sense of humor back in the days when most of us lived together under one roof, before we … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged adventure, Jack London, leather jacket, memoir, Navy flight jacket, traveling, Writing
1 Comment
On Rereading Martin Eden by Jack London; Part Three: The Finale
“Martin Eden” is not Jack London’s best book. In fact, it’s not even one of his better books. His best works are his short stories. Not all of them, because he wrote many, but the ones in which he threw … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, On Writing
Tagged book review, Jack London, Martin Eden, The Call of the Wild, Writing
4 Comments
On Rereading Martin Eden by Jack London; Part Two: What It Means to Be a Writer
This books hits almost too close to home. It’s uncanny how reading it now more than four decades after I first read it, I still have many of the same emotions. Martin Eden decides to become a writer. He works … Continue reading
On Rereading Martin Eden by Jack London; Part One: Futurama, Self-Publishing, and Jack London’s Rapacity
Last night I couldn’t sleep. Sometimes I get insomnia for a simple reason like sleeping too long during my afternoon nap, but such was not the case this time. Three seemingly unrelated bits of input created deep despondency in me, … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, On Writing
Tagged Futurama, Hugh Howey, Jack London, Martin Eden, Philip J. Fry, self-publishing, Writing
Leave a comment
California Writers: Jack London and Glen Ellen
This is an excerpt from my recently-published memoir “America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad”. To reach our next destination we have to head north through the Bay Area and San Francisco itself, across the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, On Writing, Travel
Tagged America Redux, California, Glen Ellen, Jack London, San Francisco Bay Area, Wolf House, Writing
2 Comments
Book Review: Jack London, Sailor on Horseback by Irving Stone
We writers are often lonely people. We labor away day after day, alone in our rooms at our keyboards. Often those around us don’t understand what we are going through and what drives us to persevere. How I acquired this … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Memoir, On Writing
Tagged Irving Stone, Jack London, Jack London Sailor on Horseback, On Writing, Writing
Leave a comment
On Exercise
Since today is one of my exercise days, I thought I would say a few words on how I exercise and why. I have to confess that until I was forty I never did any sort of sustained organized exercise. … Continue reading




























