I finished the final edits on a new novel, which is for the moment scheduled for an April 2023 release. It’s a departure for me, in that it is not science fiction. Several years ago, after finishing a novel, I considered the possibility of switching genres, so I wrote two non-SF books, both in some fashion murder mysteries. One of them, because I had done so much research on St. Louis, I decided to do as an historical. I set it in the 1780s, starting just after the Revolutionary War Battle of St. Louis. After that, I decided to try a contemporary mystery.…
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Mild Mannered Bookseller From a Great Metropolitan City
I’ve never really had the nerve to do this. Not since I was about eleven and I trick-or-treated as Superman with one of those old, too-big, sparkle-spattered costumes that tied up the back like a hospital gown.
But what the hell. This year, some friends suggested I try the superhero motif for Halloween. I thought I had the bits and pieces to do Captain America. But I never got around to ordering the helmet and almost at the last minute I considered not bothering.
So I compromised. I cobbled this together and decided, screw it, I might just pull this off.…