This will be short but sweet with follow ups to come in the near future.

I am very excited today, I just received word this afternoon that my script, Dam!, has been nominated for several awards and has been named an "official selection" of the 2017 Oaxaca Film Festival.

The festival, taking place in October, is considered one of the Top 25 or Top 50 (depending on where you get your info) film festivals in the world. Either way, not bad. They have recently partnered with Sundance and they are growing every year.

I am truly honored to be up for the following awards and achievements:
- Official Selection
- Best Script
- Global Script Challenge Finalist
- Best "Stirring Character"

Not bad for a monster movie about a giant beaver.

In case you missed it, here is the official longline for the script.

​Dam!
When military experiments go wrong, a college student home for spring break finds herself leading a motley group against a giant mutant beaver from destroying Toledo, Ohio. 

​I hope to have some updates and new blog posts as I prepare to travel to Mexico to take part in this fine film festival.

Thank you for your time and get back to work, you.

Anchors No More: Time Travel Excitement At Its Best
What can two scientists do when a test run of their time travel device lands them in prison, charged with treason by a government hell-bent on exploiting their technology for nefarious purposes.

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I had the chance to sit down with author Cindy Borgne (The Vallar series) and she chatted with me for a few minutes about my new novel, Anchors No More.

CLICK HERE to be directed to the interview or just click the picture below.

The one thing about writing (about any art, actually) is that you have to do it. You have to sit down and hammer it out and fill pages with words, canvases with paints, sketchbooks with sketches, air with notes. Every second you spend actively doing your art makes you exponentially better. The rest is just patience, fortitude and an unwavering belief in unseen ports in consistently stormy seas.

The book launch for Anchors No More was a success and I thank all of you who took the time to like posts and share pages and write reviews and buy books. Each one means a lot to me and I notice each and every little thing even if I do not take the time to acknowledge it sometimes.

I am working on three projects right now and

How are you doing on this fine day? Busy as ever I am sure.

Self publishing is an ongoing learning curve. Not only do contemporary writers have to be creative and productive on a steady and inspired level, they have to take the time and learn how to market, how to budget and hire some form of creative team that could include a graphic designer or two, formatting specialists and editing professionals.

Taking the entrepreneurial aspects of the title "self publisher" seriously is a vital piece of getting yourself seen and read in the over-saturated playground that is modern biblio-existence.

Good lord, have you ever had a baby? It's busy as hell.
So what have I been doing and not doing? Well...

1. I have been writing my butt off lately. It has been difficult to make time and I have been finding myself writing at odd hours and in odd places. But what can you do? Writers must write.

2. I have been chipping away at my next novel, a projected 110,000 word science fiction epic titled "Swill". It tells the story of a band of people struggling to survive a world overrun by drug addicted androids. It gets crazy up in those pages. Big action sequences, interesting speculative tech and history, and some sympathetic characters you want to see make it to the end (but of course only some do...)