My historical novel, Shadow Song, ISBN 978-1-4303-1294-9, is now available online through our secure shopping cart, as well as through my Lulu storefront.Shadow Song will be available through online booksellers worldwide by mid to late October.Watch for more details regarding the book launch and book signings.
I now have the galleys for And the Angels Sang, my anthology of speculative and fantasy short stories. Proofing of them will continue over the next few weeks. I’ve also developed a new cover, redesigned and improved from the previous, using a wonderful oil of my daughter’s, Kelly Stephens.
Shadow Song I’d originally hoped to have Shadow Song, a historical fantasy, released early this summer. Formatting problems and proofreading took much longer than anticipated, and so release has been pushed back and back, so that even the September release isn’t going to happen. Where am I at now? Waiting for the second proof copy to arrive, which should be here by the end of the month. The cover has been redesigned, an improvement I…
Recently rented the DVD Casino Royale, much-touted new Bond flick.What an incredible disappointment!We’d heard Daniel Craig was the best Bond ever. Utter nonsense. He came across simply as arrogant, without much depth. Sean Connery remains for me the Best Bond Ever. Touch of arrogance which translated into cool surety, class, style, vulnerability, everything you needed of your super-hero.The screenplay felt as though it had been written by a group of adolescents working on their high…
Babel is another we felt we’d wasted our money on, and left us wondering why on earth the film had been deemed good enough to warrant a Golden Globe Award and seven (7!) Academy Award Nominations leaves me quite mystified. Plainly I’m out of step with current tastes.While I understand completely this was to be a weaving of seemingly disparate stories, another Six Degrees of Separation, if you will, I found the two messages (guns…