Search for an Email Client

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Originally, I used Mozilla Thunderbird as my email client. It had all of the features I needed and more. In 2012, Mozilla announced they weren’t going to develop new features. I decided to move on from Thunderbird, knowing it’d eventually become a dinosaur.

At that time, I chose eM Client as a replacement. Several years passed, and I decided to evaluate email clients again.

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Donald Trump Hands Could be an Advantage

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Kel and I spent some time at Elite Shooting, working with our new firearms. For about 10 minutes back in December, I shot a pistol like the one I bought, and I fell in love with it. It’s different firing your own weapon.

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Gun Control Science

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After the latest mass gun violence in Orlando, Fl, many, including significant portion of our representatives, declared that guns kill people; therefore, we need to ban/severely limit guns.
I’ve seen many arguments for banning guns on social media as well as news channels. House Democrats, channeling their inner hippies, performed a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives because the cold-hearted Republican leadership wouldn’t allow them to vote on the gun bills that the Senate failed to pass earlier. (Read: futile gesture–complete waste of time) Apparently, these Democrats felt that reliving the good old days of ’60s was a constructive solution. Though, things have changed since then. Now, the hippies are in charge, wearing suits and eating catered meals. (Yeah, a catered sit-in)
What I haven’t seen, however, is science applied to the premise that guns kill people. Many Democrats declare that Republicans are anti-science because they believe God created everything or that climate-change isn’t occurring. Perhaps science can determine the validity of the premise that guns kill people.

2016 Pennwriters Conference and My Novel

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This year’s conference, held in Lancaster, PA, helped me address several aspects of my novel.

The first was my novel title. I’ve been unhappy with mine and have been searching for a new, better one. Originally, I started with The Shifting Sands of Mars. It’s a great title. I know because Arthur C. Clarke used it for one of his novels. Once I realized that, the title was out. Other titles I ran through are: Shifting Mars Sands, The Discovery, and After the Discovery. During Friday night’s Sci-fi/Fantasy Read and Critique, Mark Gottlieb (Trident Media Group) mentioned that he often finds a work’s title in the manuscript.

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Allegiant (The Divergent Series)

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Recently, I saw Allegiant in the theaters. The trailers tantalized me. It looked as if it were more straightforward sci-fi with more effects. Factoring in where the last movie ended, I expect at good time. . .

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I Didn’t Write That. . . Did I?

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Today’s game is called: Let’s find the horrible error!

This is how we play. Below is an excerpt of a chapter I wrote and edited. How quickly does the thought, “This author’s an idiot,” cross your mind?

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