My planning for Hooves on the Water started with researching real life Unicorns. Yes. And no. Not real live horses with horns on them. But there are many places in history that have things with the name unicorn. Some people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for September, 2026
Hooves and Horns has gone through a long run before finally coming out. Medical operations wait for no man, and if they do that could be very bad, so we were delayed. But such is life. And there is life[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Opal Kingdom Press has now released Hooves and Horns and it is available across multiple ebook retailers around the globe. Across enchanted forests, forgotten roads, ancient villages, storm-tossed shores, and worlds far from our own, hoofbeats echo through stories as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The bit about writing stories that most people don’t really see is how much of yourself goes into every story you write. There’s a saying about “writing what you know” and that’s more accurate than some think. It’s just about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you think the lawyer of that lady who brutally murdered her three children should be disbarred? He released the man’s identity, or at least enough of it as to make it simple for others to find it out and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Do you remember during the George Floyd “Mostly Peaceful Protests” and the Covid lockdowns that drug stores in some cities had to put glass panels in front of their shelves to keep the usual suspects from stealing everything that wasn’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
AI is going to kill us all. But before that, Climate Change was going to kill us all. And before that, Global Warming was going to kill us all. Before that, The Coming Ice Age was going to kill us[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Captain William Carter is in Havana, Cuba in 1956 to hunt Communists. And to find that one other person. If he can. The party never ends in Cuba, so one must go properly prepared. A nice Florida hat. A loose[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I enjoy good clothing. And I enjoy coming up with the clothing my characters wear in each story. That usually starts with researching what is period appropriate, and then factoring in what they like based on previous stories. Captain William[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Selkies are a mythical creature that spends most of their time in the ocean, but they sometimes come onto the shore and hide their pelt to walk around as a human. One of the most common stories about them is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…