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In recent days, I have been wondering what readers might think about the fact that Quantum Soul does not introduce its title concept until Chapter 84 — a third of the way through the book.
Continue reading “Premise, Promise, Pacing ~ The Taxonomy of Quantum Soul”
In 2041, the sun will pass through a river of stellar gas — igniting an extinction-scale micro-nova.
A catastrophe cycle, documented by geologists in the 1950s — but never calendared until aliens from another planet appear at the Dust Cloud Spiral with an electrostatic vacuum cleaner.
It is not the invasion from outer space everyone imagined. The gods of Egypt were adventure tourists. Atlantis was a vibe, not a place. Jivada is anchored in Earth’s past, invested in its future.
If humanity had been a reliable business partner, the AjJivadi would not have withdrawn into the shadows, soon to be forgotten. Cosmic housekeeping is technologically proprietary. Our would-be patrons will not share science with a neighbor they cannot trust.
U.S. President Carmen Benequista is front row center — head of state, mother, widow, war veteran. No stranger to reliance upon the mercy of God.
But the spirit of sacrifice is not an article of surrender. It is a doctrine of self-rule.
Maroli Tango is science fiction built on an unusually ambitious proposition: what if first contact happened thousands of years ago, the aliens never really left, and humanity reached the twenty-first century without realizing how deeply its history had already been entangled with theirs?
That premise could have produced a conventional secret-history thriller. It does not.
Instead, Maroli Tango becomes a story about sovereignty, dependency, trust, family, faith, technology, and the uncomfortable difference between being rescued and being worthy of partnership.
Literary science fiction action adventure intrigue family drama space soap opera. LSFAAIFDSSO.
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I read through Ghosts of Ancient Vidura (AjJivadi: Book 2) — confirmed it’s the direct sequel to Elbert, following the same disclosure-era storyline: hidden alien history, age-reversal tech, the maroli (spirit-possessed biotech), USAF/government entanglement, and an ancient extraterrestrial civilization on Vidura, all wrapped in your usual domestic, multigenerational, faith-adjacent tone.
Here’s where I’d place it on KDP as of the current (2026) category structure. KDP now lets you select 3 browse categories per format directly in the dashboard.
Continue reading “ClaudeAI and ChatGPT Exhume Ghosts of Ancient Vidura”
Elbert needs a somewhat different KDP strategy from Maroli Tango. Its strongest commercial identity is historical/secret-history science fiction that grows into interplanetary political adventure.
The opening is firmly planted in 1928 South Dakota, with Elbert an 83-year-old physician and Civil War veteran. The initiating revelation is that extraterrestrial Anye have been quietly living and vacationing on Earth for millennia, hidden behind Sasquatch/Bigfoot/Wendigo folklore. By Act 2 the family is traveling to Jivada; by later acts Elbert is involved in assassination attempts, economic conspiracy, political rebellion, spacecraft, and interplanetary government. And the age-reversal premise pays off explicitly: by 1934, eighty-nine-year-old Elbert appears to be about forty.
Continue reading “ChatGPT Classifies Elbert”
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At a research lab on a distant planet, a devastating accident signals the end of a technological impasse that has stalled Anye civilization at the edge of space for a thousand years. Protected in a vault, instruments reveal the true nature of space, time, and matter. The event has set physicist Rivan Saraf on a path that could take his people beyond reach of a dying star. But a hostile foreign government has agents in town. The Vanya are brutal, remorseless — here to spy, steal, kidnap and murder. And Rivan Saraf is on their list.
Literary Science Fiction. Space Soap Opera.
There once was a prisoner at Dachau, who kept a tiny ceramic frog in his pocket, a silent prayer to God that he not be forgotten.
In later years, he became a woodcarver, producing pocket-sized figures of frogs.
One day, a patron mentioned the frog was a symbol of liberation.
“Oy vey,” the man said. “Is that what I’ve been talking about?”
Artists are notorious for inscribing subtle traces of life’s struggles into the texture of the work — unaware of hidden meaning.
But I am a man of few complaints. Instead, I mumble about discipline, calling, stewardship, covenant, and moral formation over time.
Not explicitly. That would be counter-productive. Fiction is supposed to be entertaining.
Continue reading “A Dilemma in Wearing the Coat of Many Colors”
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254 chapters.
101,573 words.
617 pages, with illustrations.
3 1/2 years in the making.
The manuscript will continue to be a work-in-progress until publication on KDP.
Comments invited.
In case you haven’t seen a mockup I composed for the upcoming novel …
Despite reservations about comparison to Japanese tentacle erotica, feedback has been favorable and I’m going with this concept.
Continue reading “Putting lipstick on the monster”
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