09/01/2018

I write on a computer like every other author. But I also have a pile of paper on my desk, my hand-written design notes and sketches. Paper gives me a place to work out the plot, or handle the math, or just think about the geometry of multiple dimensions of space. This blog might be a little goofy, but I thought I’d share a few of the sketches and notes from the first three books. Let’s start with Quantum Incident. Do you recall the story where Daniel is called to Nevada to solve the mystery

07/27/2018

Science fiction and fantasy books often share shelf space in both physical and electronic book stores. I’ve never quite understood why. Okay, I see that both genres involve places, people and fantastic events that are beyond our current reality. Both genres introduce the reader to creatures that don’t exist in our world or the story dives headfirst into an entirely new world. So yes, there are similarities, mostly in settings and characters. But that’s where the similarity ends. In my opinion,

06/30/2018

Imagine the Big Bang. What would it have “looked like”? A gigantic fireball? The most colossal fireworks explosion you’ve ever seen? A blinding flash of light? None of those comparisons come close, but hey, we’re only human. We have nothing in our world that compares to an event that couldn’t possibly have been “seen”. After all, at the moment of creation, even photons didn’t exist (not to mention eyeballs). Thus, any drawing of a cataclysmic explosion is not even close to what happened in the