Cover of the paperback, due out in July. I’d originally planned on publishing a paperback version of Beyond the Will of God late in the fall. But within days of getting the word out to friends and family that they could […]
Burial of the Query Letter: Inside Beyond the Will of God
Somewhere in this photo is an envelope containing over 100 rejections. You will find below an actual query sent earlier this year to a book publisher for my novel Beyond the Will of God. I sent out over 200 query […]
Mind Maverick: Check out David Jay Brown
David Jay Brown covers the far edge of consciousness research. I stumbled into his work while reading a weekly report on entheogens at Reality Sandwich. Brown recently did a piece for the Santa Cruz Patch on telepathy and precognition studies […]
Almost a Dead Head: James Parker bears witness to a 14-disc archive of Grateful Dead film footage
James Parker, a contributing editor to The Atlantic magazine, is one of the best writers of cultural criticism working today. I subscribe to The Atlantic partly because I know I’ll get a scatter shot of weird imagery, little known facts, […]
Genre Rules In Indie Fiction: What Does A Mystery-Thriller-Paranormal-SciFi-Magical Realism Novel Look Like?
What would Janis say? There’s a simple question at the end here for folks who have read Beyond the Will of God. When I started to seriously write Beyond the Will of God back in 1993, I knew where the […]
Howdy, li’l pardner. Which way you going now?
Welcome to my new web hub. Over the next several months (it’s heading towards late July right now), I will be updating this site to include all my work online, including information on new stories I’m working on, blog entries […]
Beyond the Will of God Is Now Available
My first novel, Beyond the Will of God, is available for purchase at Amazon’s Kindle Store. If you’re looking for something different to read this summer, this book is for you. It’s part thriller, part mystery, part paranormal speculation, and […]
Stumbling Into a Beautifully Lit Room: The Convergence of Mind with Sustainability
Definitely a sunrise in August There’s a quiet revolution going on worldwide. Some of you may know about it. I’m not sure how much of this revolution is a function of the Occupy movement and how much Occupy is a […]
The Word Thieves: Navigating the New Landscape of Plagiarism
This essay appeared in Talking Writing in April. Talking Writing is rapidly becoming a high-quality online source of information for writers and content-providers of all sorts. By David Biddle for Talking Writing Imagine that a rigidly controlled country you’ve always longed […]
