The Buzz
“[The Scorpion Game] presents a cranked-up-to-11 vision of the mean streets of the future…A vigorous, visionary and steamy cybernoir crime story with a convincing far-future setting.” — Kirkus Reviews
“A genuine mind bender from its opening page.“
– Brian Driver – Amazon Review“Takes cyberpunk to a whole new level.”
– Graeme Ing – Author of Ocean of Dust“An avalanche of ideas, vivid descriptions, noir mystery all rolled into one heck of a read!”
– Ms. Beastle – Amazon ReviewConsume the Blog
Learning AI if You Suck at Math
If you’re like me, you’re fascinated with AI. Maybe you’d love to dig deeper and get an image recognition program running in TensorFlow or Theano? Perhaps you’re a kick-ass developer or systems architect and you know computers incredibly well but there’s just one...
Nine Ways Legendary Writers Achieved Mastery
This is an early excerpt from my forthcoming book on writing: The Fire of Creation I recently re-read the amazing book "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work" and it got me thinking about what master writers do differently than everyone else. What does it take to do...
Scorpion Game Illustrated Edition is Coming this Summer!
I've linked up with awesome concept artist, Chen Liang, who's done a bunch of work for Epic Games, makers of "Gears of War" and we're putting together an illustrated edition of my gritty SF crime saga the Scorpion Game. The first images are coming along beautifully. ...
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Ideas are dangerous things. Wherever there are ideas there are people who want to destroy them. You can't kill an idea but you can burn the paper it's printed on. Since ancient times, when monks first scribbled on parchment, people tried to suppress ideas by...
Vintage Montgomery Ward Security Chain Brass Door Lock & Two Key
First off, this post is likely full of spoilers. While I have absolutely no advanced knowledge of the plot details, I do have a history of accurate story predictions, such as predicting the ending of Breaking Bad with 100% accuracy. (Well, apparently not since they...
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There's an old curse: "may you live in interesting times." Right now, we live on the cusp of one of the most interesting times in the history of mankind. A number of incredible and incredibly terrifying technologies loom just over the horizon. Few people seem to...
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