Hourlings Podcast E6: Developing Characters (72m)
Episode 6 of the Hourlings Podcast Project (72 minutes) is now available on YouTube. Listen to my fellow writers and I discuss the in and […]
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Chess Quotes in “The Rooftop Game”
My novelette, The Rooftop Game, features a life-and-death struggle for survival on the rooftop of a castle tower. When the castle is overrun by enemies […]
Inspiration: Galaxy’s Edge
This is a photograph of a mural I saw at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC a few years ago. It’s as […]
Hourlings Podcast E5: Apocs, Santa, and Other Disasters (72m)
Episode 5 of the Hourlings Podcast Project (72 minutes) is now available. This was intentionally a free-form, Happy Hour event. A number of us had…ahem…adult […]
Monday Mashup: Beth Harmon vs. Spock
I love this mashup image of Beth Harmon, the chess prodigy from The Queen’s Gambit, locked in battle with the inimitable Mr. Spock, from Star […]
Hourlings Podcast E4: Marketing Madness (81m)
Episode 4 of the Hourlings Podcast Project is now available online. This episode is all about marketing books, with S. C. Megale providing input on […]
Don’t Let Your Story Succumb to the Dreaded Bean Bag Syndrome
I’m a speculative fiction writer and I’ve been participating in writing critique groups since 2013. In that time, I can’t even begin to tell you […]
Hourlings Podcast E3: Finding the Time (62m)
Episode 3 of the Hourlings Podcast Project (62 minutes) is now available. The episode’s primary topic is “Finding the Time,” or more specifically, finding the […]
Motorcycle vs. Tree
So, this is a picture of my brother, Steve Keener, shortly after he crashed into a tree during one of his off-road runs (motorcycles are […]
SpaceX Operational Launch
Today marked the first operational launch of a fully-crewed SpaceX Crew Dragon rocket into space. It carried four astronauts and cargo bound for the International […]