Latest news:

I’ve sold my first article to the official Star Trek magazine. The short piece will appear in issue 23.

My current review for Author magazine is The Man Who Loved Books Too Much. Up next will be The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein.

My short Star Trek novel, Honor in the Night, will be in the third Myriad Universes anthology from Simon & Schuster, Shattered Light, due October 2010.

In stores now: My short story “Finders Keepers” in Space Grunts, a Full-Throttle Space Tales anthology from Flying Pen Press. This volume was edited by Dayton Ward, a familiar name to readers of Star Trek fiction. Also waiting for your purchase is Resort to Murder in trade paperback and an unabridged audio version on five CDs.

Buy Space Grunts

Buy Resort to Murder Audio

Buy Resort to Murder Paperback

Personal projects (the dream job):

The first three chapters of my original novel are impatiently waiting for me to outline the rest of it. I’m not pleased with how long it’s taking me to get back to it, but time is a difficult resource to come by.

Knowing that the novel will take me years to finish, I continue to work on other shorter projects so I can get some stuff out there in the mean time. I do have a spec mystery story out to a market, and I intend to keep that circulating for as long as it takes.

My untitled time-travel short story is in the final scene. After that I’ll get back to my original novel in some fashion as well as tend to some other irons in the fire including a spec story featuring my “Finders Keepers” character.

What I’m reading.


Buy Precipice

What Ella and I are reading.


Buy The Once and Future King

X-comm projects (the weekend job):

A couple irons are in the fire at X-comm, but not quite ready for their close-up. More info as it becomes available.

The two most recent X-comm projects are in stores now: Crossing the Canal: An Illustrated History of Duluth’s Aerial Bridge, the definitive story of Duluth’s iconic bridge, uncovers many amazing facts from original source material.

Leatherheads of the North tells the story of Ernie Nevers (Pro Football Hall of Fame, 1963) and the Duluth Eskimos, a cornerstone of the 1920s NFL and the inspiration for George Clooney’s Leatherheads.

Buy Crossing the Canal

Buy Leatherheads of the North

Zenith Press projects (the day job):

Eric Hammel covers the last half of the Pacific war of the U.S. Marines in photographs, capturing the victories, the losses, and the brutality of the island campaigns.

Ivan Goldstein remembers his life before, during, and after World War II. Captured on his first day of combat in the Battle of the Bulge, Goldstein survived until the POW camp was liberated. Over fifty years later he would return to the site of his capture where, in Bastogne, his tank had become the town's memorial to the battle.

Buy Islands of Hell

Buy Surviving the Reich