I am writing at 3am, trying to get the final story in The Wind on the Blade finished. It was an incomplete story in its first incarnation. The solution that I have been crafting, with my editor's input, is something that is much longer and more involved than what I had originally imagined. Therefore, I …
Category: Japan
Words in the Snow
I wrote about 900 words today and rewrote about 600. I also deleted probably 300. Of the newly written ones, 250 were on a new story that I woke up with in my head. It's a piece of an epic fantasy that I started ages ago and then put aside so I could write the …
Headless only $0.99 through December
Headless is my debut novel, and the first book in The Ghost and the Mask series. Through December the ebook is $0.99 and equivalent prices around the world. Here is a link for all e-reader versions: http://www.books2read.com/headless If yours isn't there, let me know in the comments and I’ll try to add it. THE BLURB: …
No Promises Large Enough Available NOW
The long-awaited sequel to my novel, Headless, is finally here. The real book is at least twice this thick. Book two in The Ghost and the Mask series picks up only a couple months after the end of Headless. Akio and Masami are back into their routine at work. Akio is getting terrible headaches, and …
No Promises Large Enough Release Date
UPDATE: The release date has been delayed by one week! My apologies. Some last second formatting bugs still need squashing. Look for it on Friday, December 4th! Just a quick post to let you know that No Promises Large Enough will be available on Black Friday, Nov. 27th, 2020, exactly four years after the release …
Keeping it Together
I had talked about separating No Promises Large Enough, the sequel to Headless, into two books. I am not doing this. There will still be Part 1 and Part 2 inside, but it will be one book. Ultimately what made the decision for me was the fact that this "episode" of the story does not …
Okay… Here’s an Update
What am I doing? In my journal here, I've started posting Japan-related things that tie-in to my novels, thinking that might interest my readers. But it was nearly crickets on my UFO catcher post last week! Maybe I took a wrong turn. So this week I'm just going to give a quick update on what's …

UFO Catchers
Photo by jpellgen (@1179_jp) on Flickr, Creative Commons, some rights reserved When you think of UFO catchers do you think about James Spader in that movie Alien Hunter from 2003? (which I never saw). Or perhaps the new Roswell, New Mexico TV show (which my nephew stars in, by the way!). Do you imagine people …