In the, “Peak Performance” episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is talking to his android officer, Commander Data. Data is puzzled because he lost a battle despite making no errors as a leader. Picard, played perfectly by Patrick Stewart, tells Data, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. […]
I just made a connection on social media with a fellow author. We had a really nice exchange in which she made it clear she had actually come here to my website and looked around. You have no idea how refreshing that is. But in one of her messages, she suggested I add links to […]
As I’ve said about eleventy billion times, I’m working on the newest Shalan Adventure. Technically, in the series’ original format, this would have been Shalan Origins #2, but as I’m working on getting the whole series published, hopefully in chronological order, this would be Shalan Adventure #2 instead. Sorry. That was a bit of a […]
In case you are new here, I have written and self-published books in a series (I’ve since unpublished them–I deal with that in a subsequent post). The narrator is a guy named Harry Shalan, pronounced shay-lun. That’s a bit of a running joke. No one seems to be able to pronounce it. Harry came to […]