When we boarded the Glacier Express panorama train in St. Moritz we shared the car with only one other couple. This made the first few hours an enjoyable experience of gliding down from the “Top of the World” while jumping from side to side shooting hundreds of photos pressed against the high windows. When we […]
St. Moritz
We left Zurich in the early afternoon on a train that straddled the brilliant teal Zurichsee for about thirty kilometers before heading further south to Chur and then landing in St. Moritz. We learned that about a third of the journey (between Chur and St. Moritz) is part of the Glacier Express. We arrived in […]
Zurich
On Friday, May 13th, Sam and I embarked on a 23-day European vacation. We ubered to LAX and flew over eleven hours on Swiss Air to Zurich, landing around 4pm local time on Saturday. The Zurich airport is quite small but tidy and neat, like an airport built by Ikea. We took an easy train into […]
Amazon Kindle Free book day review
Last weekend I decided to stage an Amazon Free weekend sale for my latest book. If you’re exclusive with Amazon they’ll let you do this for five days. You can split it up or do it all at once, I did it all at once because . . . well because I don’t know what […]
First published work
A story I wrote earlier this year was acquired for publication by the international science fiction ezine SQ Magazine. With this publication, I can now say I’m a published author (not just self-published). The journey begins… The story (and mag) can be read online for free here.
Amazon promotion
Yesterday I started a free promo period for my latest book. I posted about it on facebook and did some paid promotion too. In a little over 24 hours the book went to #1 in its (free) category (First Contact Sci Fi) and has had over 1,000 downloads. Just posting this as it may be […]
Guest Review on SF Signal
Today a book review I wrote for the Hugo Award winning science fiction fanzine SF Signal went live here. Oh, and my second self-published book can be found here.
Parents visit – part III: Sedona
After Desert View succumbed to the darkness we headed south to Sedona. There too the stars eluded me another night. On Friday morning we headed under overcast skies to Cathedral Rocks. Sam and I hiked all the way up to the “saddle” point and back. Then we headed to Bell Rock, where our vertical ascent […]
Parents visit – part II: Grand Canyon
On Monday morning we flew to Phoenix and picked up a rental to drive to the Grand Canyon, arriving long after dark. Sam and I went to Mather Point for star photography, but unfortunately, the sky was cloudy. The canyon, which spread before us, was completely black and invisible. We knew it was out there, […]
Parents visit – Part 1
On December 3rd, my parents flew in for a visit. The next morning we dropped off Sam at work and borrowed her car. We went to a church that mom wanted to see for its stained glass windows, then the Wende Museum, the cemetery next door, then I dropped them off at the Grammy Museum […]