I’ve always felt a certain ambivalence about my novel Knight Moves.  (Which, I am compelled to point out yet again, is newly available for Kindle, Nook, and on multiple formats via Smashwords.) I had barely started the novel before I had the idea for Hardwired, a book that just demanded to be written.  Unfortunately I’d […]

I’ve been having a small Scandinavian film festival of my very own, full of gorgeous images from my ethnic and spiritual homeland.  Some movies drove me to cheer, some to drink.  Herewith some brief reviews: Troll Hunter (2010),  a Norwegian film in the “found documentary” genre, like Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. A group of […]

We went to the Bernardo Bird Refuge today, a pleasant 20-minute drive from where we live.  Cold, clear, and filled with the sound of thousands of birds, mostly sandhill cranes and snow geese. Here are hundreds of snow geese panicked by the sound of my camera shutter.     The best pictures were those taken […]

  Okay, so finally Knight Moves is available for Kindle, Nook, and on multiple formats via Smashwords. This book is brought to you courtesy of my crowdsourcing program. My holidays are finally complete.