150 million years ago. The Jurassic. 400 thousand dinosaurs. Dr. Veronica Hill just found a strange stone artifact in her recent dig at Pitfall Cave in New Zealand. Just as she’s about to examine it in the basement of the museum where she works, the janitor, Jonna Clarke, touches the wrong thing on it and both of them are zapped into the past. The very, very distant past. The kind with Dinosaurs. And Jonna and Veronica are face that face with them. Although Veronica’s not finding them all that scary. A paleontologist, she’s used to looking at …Continue reading →
EXCERPT A buzzing in my head brought me awake. I blinked at the glass a few inches over my face. Ceiling tiles, a florescent light fixture beyond the transparent barrier. I placed both palms on the canopy, feeling a little like I was in a coffin. Pushing on it, I heard another sound like airbrakes again, and the canopy folded back, as if I was emerging from the cockpit of an F16. I sat up. At the foot of the tube, sat Ethan Pritchard. He looked just like the photo on the back of his book. Scruffy salt …Continue reading →
Most of my essays can be found on Amazon for 99¢ OR>>>you could just get them for free here in .pdf Click the book cover to view the PDF file. Giving it Away : Spoilers as Both Noun & Accusation (Why Book Reviews Matter & How to Write a Proper One) One thing that makes that challenge more formidable is the free-for-all that is the book review. It’s unfortunate that so many book reviewers don’t seem to understand what a review’s purpose is. In simplistic terms, a book review is meant to inform a potential reader of the merits (and …Continue reading →
