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Book Two of the Planet Moss Saga is out
In the second book, Shades of Moss, Jan joins a desperate quest through the alien forest to prevent enforcers from Earth from imposing their government’s regressive beliefs on the fugitive colony, certain that if the enforcers aren’t stopped, they will destroy not only the nascent colony’s precarious chances of survival, but also her alien friends…
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Yakushima and an update on book 2
I have now finished editing the second novel in the Planet Moss Saga. I am currently waiting for feedback from beta readers before I publish it. After I finished editing the book, I took this photograph during a vacation on the wonderful Japanese island of Yakushima. This was during a hike up a mountain that…
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A View from Above
When I write a scene where a winged spacecraft glides down through the atmosphere to a controlled landing, views like this from an airplane can be great sources of inspiration for how this might feel. I was treated to this particular view on a flight home from Tokyo a few weeks ago. The mountain in…
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Winter Update
Recently I had from a nice trip to Pasadena in California, where I used to work in astronomy. While there, I was treated to a tour of the Mount Wilson Observatory, and I had the great fortune to use the newly installed eyepiece on the 100-inch (2.5m) Hooker telescope to view a number of bright…
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Welcome To My Blog
As I write this, midwinter is approaching here in Japan. Through our window I can see the nearby mountains, still adorned in the autumnal reds of Japanese maple trees, the lighter greens of bamboo groves and the darker greens of evergreen spruce trees. When the late afternoon hits them, their rich colors contrast in breathtaking…
