Frequently Asked Questions

I work on multiple projects at once. The current roster includes some reprints of dinosaur stories. I’m also busy revising a novelette about giants made of obsidian. There is also a novel that needs to get finished.

I’m writing a second murder mystery which Timidity Rex helps to investigate. This one is set in a tenth century castle.

Yes, indeed. There will be a third novella following “The Next Frontier” and “Apollo in Retrograde.” My working title is “Shining City on the Moon.”

Contact me via the form at the bottom of the page. Please let me know your name as an author, email address, title, genre (science fiction or fantasy, most likely), and date it was/will be published. You can also have your publisher’s publicist get in touch with me. I am always looking for novels by new writers that may interest readers of Analog Magazine. I also love to find works by mid-size and small publishers that have only a limited budget to promote their writers’ new work.

Here are two:
1. Provide a sense of which readers may like the book. Some love series and others want a stand-alone novel. Some readers love first person narratives and other find them annoying. The same is true of stories that switch between multiple viewpoints.
2. Be kind. Writers have long memories, especially if you say their baby is a malformed brat.

Timidity Rex because she helps a human detective solve murder cases. However, there are times when I am partial to whichever species I am currently writing about. Over the long term, my favorite is the parasaurolophus.

Because they were enormous, powerful, lived on every continent for way longer than us, and went extinct.

Without the preservation of the soft organs that would have let them vocalize, it’s hard to say. However, it does seem to me that it is likely that the parasaurolophus (in the drawing with me) could use that long, hollow crest to blow sounds. Have a listen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxb-Tt53ATE

When I was five years old, Mom and Dad took my brother and me to the American Museum of Natural history in NYC. I stared up at the brontosaurus skeleton.

For movies: the very first Jurassic Park movie. For books: Michael Swanwick’s Bones of the Earth and David Walton’s Living Memory. For realistic recreations, I’m partial to Prehistoric Planet. But science marches on, bringing us more up-to-date discoveries and hypotheses all the time.

Zoologists and paleontologists are looking at this question in a new light. While it makes for a more interesting story if they could fly, the image of them stretching their legs like bats might not be correct. Here’s a neat article talking about the need to evaluate not only the range of motion of their hip bones, but also how their ligaments come into play. The problem is that soft tissue is much less likely to be preserved in fossils. Want to know more?

It’s a hobby that is relaxing and produces a beautiful, unique result. The flowers themselves make sure the bouquet cannot be ugly or indifferent. Also, I have something new to photograph.

Look for whatever is freshest: no brownish or curled petals, no droopy, discolored leaves. Whatever is in season in your area right now is likely to be the longest lasting.

Change the water, ideally every day. If you look at the water and you would not want to drink it, neither do your flowers.

Why yes, I have several. Catherine Schaff-Stump gave me a forum to talk about this.

When you are digging in the sun and heat of the Sonoran Desert and almost put your hand on a scorpion one too many times, a desk job takes on a lot of appeal.