“Sha’Daa: Inked” FB Release Party for Kindle Edition
Don’t miss the party! We have lots of FREE gifts to give out as contest prizes during this fun Facebook Event that is 6:00 pm to 11:00 pm EST USA on Saturday, September 24, 2016.
Poet Rilke’s Letters
Why did I wait until nine years ago to finally pick up this diminutive paperback volume? Why did I shun its potential advice for this wide span of time? Perhaps it was part of that anti-intellectualism I have harbored for so long…
More On The Origins Of Maauro
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED deep space stories about star-spanning governments and alien races, ala Babylon 5 and Star Trek. In my first series, the adventures of Robert Fenaday and the genetically-engineered woman Shasti Rainhell, aboard the privateer Sidhe, I created the universe all my SF stories would be set in, much as author Larry Niven did…
Getting Up To Speed
2016 has been a busy and fruitful year for CDP LLC, as to date our MoonDream Press imprint has published one novel, AGAINST THAT TIME, and two shared-world anthologies, COWBOYS IN SPACE and SHA’DAA: INKED.
Dark Poetry: Tantalizing Taboos
What is the appeal of dark poems? What draws us to their sticky web? Why do we enjoy reading them? These are questions that writers and publishers of dark poetry are asked all the time, and not surprisingly, the answers vary widely between any two people.
Alive and Well: The Legacy of C.J. Henderson
C.J. Henderson was in every sense of the word, a Huckster. He was a salesman extraordinaire, a man who never shied away from The Pitch, and in his prime excelled at attending dozens of conventions and events in the span of a year, making new friends and fans, and spreading the gospel of his magnetic personality.
Maauro’s Gender- Why Female?
On Gender A writer friend of mine turned to me after reading My Outcast State and said. “You know it would never have occurred to me to make the robot female.” I was surprised and said that it would never have occurred to me not to. The dynamics of human nature are much more…
On The Origins of Maauro –
ON THE ORIGINS OF MAAURO: the combat android built by the long gone race she calls ‘The Creators’ Hmmn, how to discuss this without generating spoilers? Well I will just have to give it a go. Maauro, like so many things, came from the failure of a prior project. I had decided to write a…
Space Operas: Alive and Well
WITH NASA’s successful test of the RS-25 rocket engine (the most powerful rocket ever), the recent announcement of the possible discovery of an Earth 2.0 orbiting Proxima Centauri, and the rampant speculation of some variant of a Dyson sphere surrounding Tabby’s star, there is no shortage of fresh science to inspire the burgeoning field of science-fiction, and Edward F. McKeown’s “MAAURO Sci-Fi Series” is a prime example of this.