I should start with the announcement, but I’m not going to. I’m not in the newspaper business any more and I’m under no obligation to invert the pyramid. I’m going to save that for last.

First off, I’ve completed a novella, “Investigation into the Velazquez Shooting.” It’s about 23,000 words long. I wrote it for alternatehistory.com, and response was generally favorable—people were intrigued and drawn in at the beginning and fr...

And once again, what can I say after such a long absence?

I can start by keeping a promise I made three months ago, although I'm not sure how much good it'll do at this point:

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After a five year assignment on an alternate Earth, General Mark Holden accepts a posting as Commander in Chief of Phoenix City; taking his wife Julia and their two sons back to the only place which truly feels like home.  But all is not as it appears....

I was a little busier than usual last week. On Wednesday I had an interview with Delmarva Today on Altered Seasons: Monsoonrise, which you can find here. (And yes, since then I have started reading The Grapes of Wrath, as I should have done years ago.) On Saturday I gave a talk on the same book at the White Swan Tavern in Chestertown, MD. I’m sorry there’s no tape of that—I sound a lot more natural when I’m delivering a lectur...