The Regional Excellence Book Awards has just given my book the Young Adult Fiction award for the Southwest Region. Now I’ve got to get the new stickers in to decorate the books. Oh, and change several of my promotional fliers to highlight the award. And… lots of things. I wish I could just take a… Continue reading Beneath the Amarillo Plains has Won the REBA Award
Tag: Novel
What’s Up Next
Today, I’m working on two very different books. I can’t show you the covers yet, but I will soon. The next novel up is Free U’tanse and follows the events of Tales of the U’tanse which came out December 2012. The U’tanse are humans, captured by the Cerik aliens in Star Time. Their decendants are enslaved… Continue reading What’s Up Next
My Favorite Book: Captain’s Memories
This part of the saga is something like an anthology of shorter works. I’ve heard this structure called a ‘fix-up’ novel, where short fiction is blended into a novel-length story. I’ve been calling it ‘comb anthology’ where short stories are interleaved with chapters of a backbone story. I’ve been writing stories of the Terraforming Project… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Captain’s Memories