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The Kompsí Pod: Time Travel for the Handicapped

The Kompsí pod “jumps” in space and forward in time. Unlike the other time traveling pods in my science fiction […]

The Screwtape Letters is a satirical version of the enemy’s playbook. It is a series of letters written by an

Strong female protagonists, that’s what literary agents are looking for. When they say that, it usually means they will accept

Temporal tension can rip the universe apart. Well, not really. At least it can in the time traveling novel series,

If you go back in time, do not kill your grandfather. In the last few blogs, we explored how people

A computer that sees the future is the key to time travel … at least in the science fiction series,

The Shadows of Time novel series uses wormholes based on a technique postulated by Kip Thorne to travel back in

The Shadows of Time is a series of science fiction novels I’ve been working on for … well, let’s just

Let’s Build a Time Machine Suppose we can. Then what? What about time travel security? Let’s say you have a

The Godfather made me a pastor. No, really. Working for the Godfather helped finance my theology degree. In an interview

I had the pleasure of being interviewed on the Douglas Colman Show. This is my first video interview, and I

To drive story tension and conflict, every main character (protagonist) should have a villain (antagonist) of equal or greater ability.