New Sci-Fi Short Story - The Prototype

My new short story is in editing phase right now. It's called The Prototype. The Prototype is set about one hundred years into the future. In this future the U.S. is about to launch an epic and vast space frontier program - basically exploring and colonizing the solar system and a big corporation with gleaming towers called Vartan Industries has landed one of these lucrative government contracts. The protagonist is a humble Quality Assurance employee, named Bob, who takes on a mentorship role for - the prototype, a humanoid, life-like android named Will. This android is one of Vartan Industries's greatest achievements. And guess what? Something goes terribly wrong. But I won't tell you anymore. You'll have to read it for yourself.

For readers - those of you who are on the mailing list will automatically get it for free. For all others. The Prototype will be free for a few days.

Also, I did an interview with Simon Whistler from the Rocking Self-Publishing podcast. A great interview and a lot of fun, I talk about my experiences as a self-published author, mistakes I've made and what I'm doing now. Check it out!

blueshift - Episode #5!

Alright folks! Another blueshift episode is up. You know what? I might have episode #6 up sometime next week. The newest episode, or chapter is called "Sensing Things". Each episode has its own chapter title. If you would like to see this series be turned into a podcast or audiocast/book email me at epistlepublishing@gmail.com and let me know.

In the future I am thinking about turning this into a series of printed comics with art work and also maybe an audio book. But that's into the future. For now, I'm taking it one episode at a time. It's turning out to be interesting. I never thought that free-writing would work for me after my terrible bouts with Writer's Block when I was young. We'll see where it goes. It seems to be headed in a good direction. I like it.

Check it out here! Oh and by the way, my new short story will be coming out by next weekend. So look for The Prototype then! :)

Other Realms: Diverse Worlds in Speculative Fiction

I am participating in some exciting things this month! One of them is the Other Realms project. Other Realms is a cool project, a book portal, that will showcase an array of speculative fiction stories; it is also a broad and inclusive way of looking at speculative fiction. The project will be open to readers starting August 20th and will be open until September 5th.

Often, spec-fic does not have much in the way of diverse characters either in race or culture, in how characters and cultures are displayed or written about. Other Realms is for those of us who write speculative fiction stories with unusual heroes or unusual and/or minority characters. My own first fantasy series had a bi-racial girl as the heroine and in my current fantasy trilogy the characters are patterned mostly after those of Middle Eastern, African and Some Southern European peoples and cultures.

Enter the realm by clicking the link and get immersed in a very different and expansive world - a way of looking at fantasy and science fiction through different lenses and every bit as fun! We are also hosting the works associated with Other Realms either free or at discounted prices. Free and discounted content (books), folks! Go and search and explore and I'm sure you'll find something you'll like! So click the link and get started on your journey and find some really cool and intriguing work. I have offered excerpts of my own Red World trilogy as part of the Other Realms project for exploration and there is new content there from the Red World trilogy not posted anywhere else or even in the books. So check it out! Other Realms!