Why I Chose Sci-Fi

On my ninth birthday, at age fourteen, and again at seventeen, my life was altered forever by mysterious encounters with otherworldly phenomena.

The most vivid memory I have is about waving a UFO down from the sky when I was seventeen and then waving good-bye to it several seconds later. Those few seconds turned out to be an hour and a half of lost time.

My novels are not based on these experiences but the new genre I chose — blending sci-fi with mainstream and throwing in a lot of contemporary issues — was definitely influenced by these events.

In the immortal words of the late Robert D. Barry who hosted a local late-night Pennsylvania TV show called E.T. Monitor in the 1980s: Something to think about.

The Self-Published Author

Authors who self-publish are often those who have been overlooked or simply ignored by the conglomerate-owned publishing houses that control most of what the world reads today. The annual flood of manuscripts, winnowed by agents and editors into the market-driven products found on the shelves of major booksellers, unfortunately drowns out many new and inspired voices that ought to be heard.

Self-publishing doesn’t mean that an author has nothing worthwhile to contribute to the world of literature or to the world culture. It simply means that an author has undertaken a bold new initiative in his or her quest to establish a following, a readership that will make the effort of writing a worthwhile endeavor, after all.

What's In A Story?

Fiction is real life without its mask. This is my official signature line. But what does it mean?

It means that, as a science fiction author, I'm not pretending to be an expert in the way things are. I simply tell a story about what might be. There, underneath the mask, behind the lie.