by Wade | Apr 5, 2024 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
I read a lot of books, but don’t really think about it much until somebody asks me about a show, a movie, or what I did over the weekend. To the shows and movies, the response is usually “I haven’t seen it,” or “I’m only half-way...
by Wade | Mar 1, 2024 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
Portland, Oregon is a really interesting town for holding a writer’s conference. We stayed downtown in an area with a mid-century industrial feel that’s been going through a renewal. It was gritty, artsy, neo-bohemian, but without coming off as unsafe or...
by Wade | Feb 9, 2024 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
This week I’m thinking about attention and coincidence. There’s a phenomenon called the blue car effect that describes how you might start noticing blue cars on the road if you’re thinking of buying a blue car yourself. I’ve noticed this...
by Wade | Aug 9, 2023 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
Those of you following me on Instagram know I’ve been on a working vacation. I say working even though I haven’t put words to paper, and I say vacation even though there have been few beaches. Instead, I toured college campuses on the East Coast with my...
by Wade | Jul 19, 2023 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies, Reader Updates
My penmanship has always been terrible, and I’ve always thought it was just the way it was. Some kids have it and some don’t, right? It didn’t help that I was always in a hurry and without patience for things like drawing straight lines, tracing...
by Wade | Jul 28, 2021 | Book Reviews, Reader Goodies
Coyote by Allen Steele The Coyote stories were originally short stories published in sci-fi pulp magazines about a colony of political prisoners who steal a colony spaceship and settle on the titular planet. Several series of unfortunate events occur, such as one of...