My life changed. Taking a risk, I had accepted an early retirement offer from the company where I had worked for twenty-some years. The company had changed, and my children were grown. The numbers seemed reasonable. I could quit writing database code that seemed increasingly irrelevant to me, and I feared, to the company. So… Continue reading Why I Wrote “Emperor Dad”
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The Topology of the Project Saga
I had always supposed that when I wrote a series of books, that they would be a series, that is, one book after the other in chronological order. It hasn’t worked out that way for me. In fact, it never has. My most populated series, Small Towns, Big Ideas, is more a collection than a… Continue reading The Topology of the Project Saga
Beta Reader Copies
Not too long ago, I wrote about the process of creating comb-bound copies of an early draft of a novel to allow beta-test readers the chance to find errors and mark it up. Well, this book, I’m trying something a little different. It’s a gamble and I don’t know how it will play out. Instead… Continue reading Beta Reader Copies