The AFICTIONADO® Blog

I would like to wish everyone a happy 4th.  It is certainly a difficult time this year, but I hope we can all enjoy our holiday. I’ve started on the idea for a new story and I find, as with everything I’ve written, that I have to start with a pad of paper and a […]

Completely missed last week.  Too much going on.  In my little book world, new covers are coming for Accidental Warrior and Starman’s Saga.  Assuming everything passes validation, the books with their new cover art should be available by this weekend.  I hope everyone likes them!  On the writing side, made a lot of progress on […]

Trying to get myself back to work this week.  There is a draft of the new manuscript and that needed to be completed.  Got that done, then went back and forth over the title.  Still planning to have this out by year end. Read Alix Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January and the author […]

When I started this blog, I was determined that it would be about books and about writing.  I was not going to inject politics or other comments on the state of the world.  I cannot keep to that tonight.  From the tragedy in Minneapolis to the theatre of the absurd in Washington DC, I am […]

Looking forward to the online Nebulas this weekend, albeit with a little trepidation as to how it will work.  Well, I’m game to try it.  One of the more interesting parts of the weekend is that this year the Nebulas overlap with a professional meeting that I usually attend.  I had figured that I would […]

A fairly light week this week, but then we have the online Nebulas at the end of next week.  Very interested to see how this works.  While the scale will be reduced and the spontaneous personal connections can’t happen, the online modality does make it possible for people to participate without having to buy airline […]