Sticky post
Groundswell began as a short story and grew into a novella. I suppose it even qualifies as a novel, but that’s neither here nor there. I cranked this baby out over the summer, posting each chapter online as I finished it. I “pantsed” it, as they say. Freestyled it. It’s a suspenseful, lightning-paced thriller, but it’s also a real slow-burner. How’s that possible? Read it … Continue reading Groundswell
Sticky post
Effugium Eccentric tech mogul and cult leader Richard Kryuss has developed a system of storing and transmitting data organically, via trees containing within their DNA the entirety of recorded human knowledge. Could his Terrestrially Regenerative Enhanced Extranet, or T.R.E.E., be a boon to mankind, or will it spell doom for the human race? Exsilium In this eagerly-anticipated followup to last year’s “Effugium: The Time Remaining,” … Continue reading Effugium, Exsilium, Anshar and beyond
Sticky post
These are links to all of the currently available books I’ve written: Effugium The Act Of Laughing Liberty Moon Garden Grave Concerns Anshar (a novella) Coming Very Soon: Continue reading All of my books
More memes from Trekker Things Follow on twitter now, too! Continue reading The Meme Adventure Continues…
Originally posted on Patrick Walts:
ONE Somewhere in California, 1993 It was one of those cool, rainy nights I’d always found so perfectly conducive to getting a lot of complex, tedious work done, and so after bidding an early but very fond farewell to the lovely young actress from Fresno with whom I’d spent the evening, I slipped into my ’92 Benz (the charcoal one)… Continue reading Face to Face: An Effugium story
When I was in fourth grade, way back in 1987, My family and I took a trip to Florida. While there, we visited Kennedy Space Center. We always stopped and checked out sites of historical significance while traveling, and I was absolutely thrilled to finally be visiting this one, which I’d read so much about. I was really into space. Most likely this was sparked … Continue reading The future I still dream
I slap these little ads together to promote my books on social media. Here are a few of my faves: Continue reading Book ads
Every time I place a sponsored ad for one of my books on Facebook, and it gets a decent response, Faceborg threatens to delete my account and my author page. Every time a post from my Star Trek meme page goes viral, the Zuckerbots threaten to delete my account and my page. They’ve limited my reach to “protect the community from spam.” I’ve figured out … Continue reading Faceborg is really messing with me
I’m going to start posting weekly links to some of my favorite lesser-known jams every Monday. Personally, I enjoy discovering new or new-to-me old music, and I assume there are others out there who do as well, so here goes: This week’s installment is Prince’s The Ballad of Dorothy Parker off 1987’s Sign O the Times. On the surface, the track sounds so sparse and … Continue reading Song of the week 11/16/20
2019 knocked me down hard. 2020 knocked me down harder, and kicked me while I was down. Yeah, I know, it knocked everyone down and I’m not special in that regard–don’t claim to be, but this is my website, so… 2021 is a big, ugly fire-breathing dragon eyeing me from beyond the chasm of winter, waiting with baited, smoky breath to greet me when I … Continue reading I’m going to kill 2021
“We won’t be able to hold them off for much longer, sir.” The tired old man rose from his chair and walked over to the window, his hands folded behind his back. “I know. Your people did their best.” In the distance, another police car went up in flames and the masses of rioters gathered outside the gates rejoiced. It reminded him of home. He … Continue reading Prodigal Son
In Exsilium, the sequel to Effugium, Galenia was overtaken by TREE even as Earth was freed from the grip of the evil Sovereign and his ally, the ‘Teller. Now, thousands of years later, Kryuss, Caldo and Bingwen have teamed up with a strike team from the warlike Galenian colony world of Bellum to return Galenia to its rightful owners. After arriving in orbit, however, Kryuss … Continue reading Exitium update
In the Star Trek episode Day of the Dove, the crew of the Enterprise is pitted in mortal combat against the crew of a Klingon ship by a mysterious parasitic entity that feeds on hatred. The entity takes away their phasers and disrupters, providing them instead with swords, ensuring maximum negative energy. It resuscitates the dead so they can get right back up and continue … Continue reading Life lessons from Star Trek
