On May 7, I was in Calgary for the joint book launch of the first two titles of the Shadowpaw Press Spring/Summer list, The Downloaded by Robert J. Sawyer and The Traitor’s Son by the …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, turned to Crowdfundr to help ensure …
This year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The Worldshapers, succeeded, reaching …
Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
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Where do you get your ideas?
From stories like this one, about NASA’s Deep Impact spacecraft, scheduled to launch on December 30 and to fire a copper projectile into the surface of comet Tempel 1 on July 4.
The 372-kilogram “impactor” will hit at approximately 37,000 kph and could leave a crater the size of a football field.
Which immediately got me thinking. What if the comet isn’t really a comet, but an alien spacecraft disguised as a comet, quietly observing Earth to see if humans are dangerous…and we’re about to attack it?
I fear the alien invasion fleet won’t be long in coming…
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