I recently saw an intriguing NOVA episode on PBS called ‘Decoding the Neanderthals’. The subject of human evolution has long fascinated me though I was never bright enough to pursue the study as a career. I stll prefer stone tools and cave paintings to the iPhone and social media.
Here’s the basic premise. The study of human evolution up until recently concluded that Neanderthals, our beetle-browed predecessors, were an evolutionary dead end. Their own ancestors had migrated out of Africa…..
THE HUNTED is my new novel coming out in the spring of 2013. It is my first experience going the e-publishing route, using iUniverse as the publisher. While I am not firm in my conviction that this is the best way to get your novel into the public view, it has become a reasonable means, which I would have rejected not too long ago. For those who write and have received many rejections, you understand.
I wrote THE HUNTED…..
When I began writing fiction many years (decades) ago, I didn’t put a lot of thought into the sex of the main character. My early novels usually had male leads even if the main characters were chimpanzees as in PANDORA ISLAND. I think the first novel I wrote with a woman as the protagonist was RED ROSA, but this was a fictional account of an historic person, Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-Jewish revolutionary at the turn of the 20th century. Subsequently,…..
This web page and blog will normally be devoted to fiction, writing and related topics. But given the events of the past week in Boston, I wanted to add my own thoughts.
I lived for many years in the Back Bay section of Boston not far from the Boston Marathon finish line. I would stand out on Massachusetts Avenue and watch the lead runners as they turned up towards Boylston Street and the finish line. Crowds line the race course…..
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