Oh hey, I ought to mention this around here. Project Salamander is what resulted from an insane idea of mine: To write a round-robin novel with those writers I’d assembled to put together Writers Cantina, the speculative fiction writing conference that debuted this past July; I thought it could act both as a promo piece…

[This is the talk I gave in sacrament meeting today. Latter-day Saint content ahead!] We’re going to be talking about deep doctrine today – the deepest, in fact, because it’s so foundational. It’s faith. It qualifies as a “deep doctrine” because, while it’s a word that many people use, very few understand it. Much of…

In the middle of this batch, I went off on a week-long vacation. You can’t even tell!

The Tomorrow War (2021) – Chris Pratt vs. Xenomorphs! Thirty years in the future, there’s an alien invasion, and Earth has almost fallen to the ferocious invasive species, basically the Alien franchise’s Xenomorphs with added all-natural projectile weapons. Running out of cannon fodder in the future, the last line of defense there starts drafting people…

(Fair warning: Bunch of religiony stuff below.) I’ve been very pleased with “Hello Saints,” series of YouTube videos by Pastor Jeff, an evangelical who’s on a mission to understand as much as he can about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (exonymically, “Mormons”).  He’s done a terrific job of attending Church sites, a…

Four sketches done at 4.5″ x 6.5″, available in my Etsy shop… …and three direct from my sketchbook: