My Audiobook Voice

The Problem As part of the upcoming 1st Revised Edition release of Hell on $5 A Day, I’ve been creating an audiobook version that will...

New Mailing List!

Announcement As I’ll be adding a number of external sites on which I place content, I decided to create a mailing list that goes “beyond...

First Revised Edition Cover Art

When the first revised edition and the audiobook appear, they will get a new cover. That is all. What do you think?...

Launch Planning

The launch date for the 1st Revised edition of Hell on $5 A Day is January 19, 2026. On this day, I’ll be launching the...

An Ode to Hyman Gurman

This morning, an old line of poetry came into my head. It was from an assignment I had to do after my 7th grade class...

Updates + NaNoWriMo

It’s NaNoWriMo…. national novel writing month. So I’ve set some goals. Record the remaining 30 chapters of Hell on $5 A Day Add 30,000 words...

Mirroring a folder in Windows

Summary: Here’s how to use Windows RoboCopy and Windows Task Scheduler to mirror a folder’s contents to another folder. In my case, it’s keeping exact...

Regarding Oversensitivity

This will be short (ish). I’m doing a bit of rejiggering on some historical math in my next novel and noticed I was using BC...

Novel and Other Stuff Updates

I’m using AI for my audio book I’ve had some health and logistics issues in getting the audiobook I wanted to do done. Mostly it’s...

Writing Tools: Using Scrivener on Linux

Yesterday, I decided to move Sodom All Over Again from Microsoft Word to Scrivener. It wasn’t a spur of the moment decision. I’ve used Scrivener...

All online video is now suspect

After almost falling for a video of African men building a wooden full-scale jumbo jet replica, it's time to talk about the dangers (and benefits)...

The Rational Copyright Pledge

Today I announce my “Rational Copyright Pledge” regarding works to which I own the copyright. I encourage other creators to do the same. A Brief...

Progress on my novels

Warning: Possible Spoilers As some of you know, I’ve been working on the sequel to Hell on $5 A Day, which has gone from a...

Dance Badly – A fun tune

Closing out the week, we have “Dance Badly.” Years ago, in the parking lot behind a Los Angeles comedy club, some comics and I were...