While researching my first published "Sci-Fi History" articles, I found enough information to write a book. After I finish my first novel, my next large-scale projects will include:
- Frank Herbert's Lost Archive, Vol. 1 - My first published article, in North Bay Bohemian, chronicle's the Dune author's early career as a photojournalist working for Santa Rosa Press Democrat, from 1949 to 1953. My microfilm research uncovered 140 articles Herbert wrote, plus an additional 200 sets of photographs. Some of these article are preminiscent of characters and events from his best-selling Dune series.
- Philip K Dick: Sci-Fi's Van Gogh - My second published article, in North Bay Bohemian, details PKD's life in Sonoma County before his books and stories became adapted into some of the biggest sci-fi blockbuster films, like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, and more.
- Jack London: Sci-Fi's Forgotten Father of Dystopia - Soon to be published in North Bay Bohemian. Best known for his "dog books," Call of the Wild and White Fang, London is mostly forgotten as an early sci-fi writer. Also forgotten is his influence on George Orwell and 1984. London influenced so many of today's great writers of scif-fi and sword-and-sorcery that just naming them all could fill a book.
Over the summer I have been writing freelance for a smalltown newspaper near Metropolis, where my grandmother's family lived a hundred years ago.
I am preparing a Field Guide to identify invasive weeds plaguing the countryside near my writing studio. A corrsponding calendar is planned, as part of my other blog, Elko Scenery: Landscapes and Rangeland.
When my first novel gets completed, I plan on publishing on Kindle, Smashwords, and Lulu, among other platforms. I will keep this blog updated with my progress.
