Author: Kevin Fraleigh
The Series Is Complete!
The third and final novel of the Any Tomorrow series is in the pipeline for publication at Amazon and Smashwords. Any Tomorrow: The Culling is available from Amazon and Smashwords now and at other distributors such as Barnes & Noble sometime in the coming weeks. While I was at it,…
Five Minutes To Midnight
Last week the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the dreaded Doomsday Clock was moved to a minute closer to midnight. For reasons you can read here, the Doomsday Clock now stands at five minutes to midnight. Midnight being defined as the end to everything. We have been closer of…
Focusing on Book #3
It’s January. Those of us with day jobs have returned to work, a valiant effort has been made to get the Christmas decorations packed up in some kind of order, and it’s time to publish the third book in my trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Culling. For those of you who…
The Changes Never End
Okay, so I’m planning to publish Any Tomorrow: The Culling, the final novel of the Any Tomorrow Trilogy, in January. Everything is ready to go. The problem is that a few weeks ago I started working on what I thought would be a new novel tentatively called The Last Pope…
My Wife Won’t Read My Stories!
Although she regularly reads my blog, my wife, Malette, isn’t comfortable with the horror/fantasy genre. She likes other things. One of her favorite writers is Johanna Lindsey. And that’s okay, different strokes for different folks, as they say. But there are times I’m envious of Leo Tolstoy whose wife, Sofia,…
Sam Stone Revisited
In my blog over the past year I’ve discussed how the inspiration for a character or a character type is often drawn from real life. Here is another instance. At work, for the past few days I’ve been cleaning out filing cabinets, tearing through thousands of paper files, condemning the…
God And Space
Yesterday I read an article that said that the Voyager I spacecraft, launched in 1979, is now 11 billion miles from the sun. Eleven billion miles. That’s 11,000,000,000 miles. A very long way from home. Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy adds some perspective: “Space,” it says,…
Five Reasons I Self-Publish
I am pleased to announce that I have received my first check from Amazon Digital Services for sales of my two novels. A little celebratory music please! Okay, that’s enough. Now that the music and cheering across blogosphere has subsided, the reality of the first payment sets in. After more…
A Warrior Without A War
We hear a lot these days about the trauma suffered by soldiers who go to war, but is it possible for a soldier to be traumatized by not going to war? If you think about it, there was a period between the end of the Vietnam Conflict and the Operation…
The Morning After
Turkey Day and Black Friday have passed, typically two days of consumer excess. By now the good dishes have been washed and put away, the holiday silverware is safely back in the special green felt-lined wooden box tucked back in the buffet. Most of the leftover turkey and sides have…
