I’ve been looking forward to March, 2019 for the last eighteen months, because that’s about how long I figured a story like Beauty Pill would take. I didn’t think a contemporary novel would require much world building – now is already here, isn’t it? – but all the pieces have to be put in place […]

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A hard-luck Oregon TV weather girl takes a desperate shot at redemption when she joins the clinical trial for a miracle drug. The glitzy brochure is a sales pitch, but her call reaches a university grad student with a secret agenda. “This story has everything,” the narrator says in her best Pussy Riot accent. “It […]

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What the one with initials DT, so reminiscent of Delerium Tremens, actually wants from his Trumpresidency, is this: To Have It Out With Fucking Everybody. You got it. World War Trump. Nothing intrinsically wrong in that, it’s our choice. Other civilizations in this galaxy and on this earth have collapsed. La De Dah. The tea […]

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Step aside, climate change and global warming. Pooh-pooh, Cascadia fault. I need to worry about my fate in High Definition. I want a countdown clock (in picoseconds) that gives me how long it is until the vacuum of free space goes to a lower energy level. Dr. Keenan concurs with Homer Simpson on the vital […]

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http://shawncoyne.com/ It’s worth noting that Coyne in his book, The Story Grid, lets us off the hook of understanding the WHOLE topic of Genre with a simple statement: If you take away nothing else from this book, learn how to write a scene. So here’s what he suggests as the recipe for a dramatic scene […]

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After a delightful evening at the casino, a few of us writer types from the Ashland (Oregon) Writers’ Group put together a list of what it takes to get traction in the indie book market. Your mileage may be zero. But hey, go for it! Be a celebrity Don’t use too big a words Be […]

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If you’re interested in a truly spellbinding science fiction thriller, check out THE FRAME (2014), a touching story that uses no planet-busters or death rays, but which posits a coherent though weird alternate reality where a mindless and all-powerful force scripts the lives of the characters. Two random strangers begin seeing each other face to […]

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OK, so tell me I have an axe to grind with Hollywood. $528 billion in box office the first weekend (not counting China!) is impressive, but as we left the showing of Star Wars, The Force Awakens, my wife remarked, “That gives Americans what they want. Plenty of shooting, without a single idea.” She soon […]

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   Amid gritty realities of 2029 Amerika, the class war between the elite rich and the masses rises to blinding rage. This battle is most intense within the avatar universe, Halcyon Dreamworlds.    The Dreamworlds is a permissive online rave with the morals of a beer commercial… where your avatar can mosh with millions of fellow addicts […]

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Halcyon Dreamworlds, Lee Baldwin’s new science fiction novel, is doing well on Kindle Scout, Amazon’s reader-powered publishing venture. The campaign ends soon. Your nomination will push Kindle Press to pick it up for publication, and you’ll get a free copy if they do! (Plus my undying gratitude.) Following on the heels of Baldwin’s novel, Next […]

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