Fictional characters have an odd relationship with time.  We readers are sometimes given glimpses of what happened to them before the story began.  If they haven’t died by the end of the story, the author will occasionally tell us, in general terms, what happens to them after the story ends, the “lived happily ever after”…

I recently received my first royalty payment for SOCKWORLD.  It was all of two figures, enough for dinner for two in a cheap restaurant.  Well, I haven’t dined in a restaurant lately.  Better make that dinner for one, with a twenty percent tip.  Better make that fifteen percent.  My first published story appeared in a…

     I just received a really good review of SOCKWORLD that I’d like to share with you.  By calling it a “really good review” it seems I am reviewing the review.  Is that legal?  Not sure.  It also raises the question: if I had received a really bad review, one that said my book stinks…

We often hear that last names, surnames, once had a meaning if you go far enough back in history.  Adamson was once the son of a guy named Adam.  People named Baker can trace their lineage back to someone who actually shoved dough into an oven.  The more names I see, however, the more convinced…