Remember my promise that Book 4 in the series was coming? Well, it’s underway, but far from finished. I thought I’d share the first draft of Chapters 1 and 2. I’ve added several author notes so you can see my thought process when starting a book. No promise that these...

Aya Huma Mask (Diablo Huma-Huma Devil) In Ecuador and Peru, the winter solstice is sometimes still celebrated by honoring the Incan sun god, Inti. Some mistakenly consider this a summer solstice ceremony, apparently forgetting that, except in Colombia and the northern...

The Robotic Surgeon series is just beginning to develop branches. Before it gets too complicated, I wanted to create a timeline showing where each story goes and identifying each as part of this universe. I am already working on the fourth full novel and have a good...

It's so hard to watch movies on the streaming services when the stories you write yourself are better than most of the things they are offering. Oh, the burdens of being an original writer.

I love this statue. It is a tribute to the part that mice, as a species, have played in the advancement of medical science. It appears in a park in Siberia, Russia in front of one of their science laboratories....

I spoke to a room full of surgeons about the future of robotic surgery, using advanced technologies described in my fiction series "Dr. Monica Grey". It went over fantastically well. The audience was more interested in my speculative ideas than in many of current...

Speaking at Society of Robotic Surgery 2024 Annual Meeting on Telesurgery in Fiction and Imagination. Thanks for the great turnout! hashtag#SRS2024. Recorded Presentation: https://youtu.be/KGs0Qf7cDTM

I loved the original cover of the first book because it was very "techie". But as I have fleshed out the characters, I am more attracted to showing them on the cover. I am in discussions with my designer to shift to something like the second picture for a new edition...

I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Childhood's End" by Arthur C Clarke. It was written in 1953 describing man's first encounter with aliens. But this encounter is not like anything in today's movies. It's a 180-year saga of an alien overlord species who...