Apparently the world is scheduled to end tomorrow. The local news channels have decreed that a winter storm will be the end of us. So far th...

This blog was created originally to promote a science-fiction series, but my oh my I write other genre, too! In the mainstream or literar...

Long ago I did some research and a lot of speculation and came up with the following data for use in the original Dream Land novel. Like I ...

Recently I joined a discussion list for a fiction contest through Amazon.com regarding submissions of science-fiction and fantasy novels and...

The first thing to communicate after the obligatory New Year greeting ("Hi, hope your year goes splendidly for you and no bad things ha...

...But there is a relationship, nevertheless! As if by technological magic, there is now a Facebook page devoted to the Dream Land series...

Now that the semester's work is done, I expect to have time to finally complete the "final" edit of the Dream Land II manuscr...

Now that the annual homage to the American bird has passed--and homage to any and all presumptions of historical fact versus convenient fict...

Time. Usually that's enough said. Everybody follows it--grammatically time then happens before we react to it. Many people curse it. Som...

Given the mid-term elections a couple of days ago, readers might expect a rant about politics on this blog. However, because this blog is ab...

This map covers the majority of the empire of Sekuate, divided into northern and southern states. The angle is a bit skewed for purposes of ...

This is a portion of the larger map, constructed by the author, of locations important in the Dream Land series. The "beak" shaped...

...because it usually means you are keeping busy and staying out of trouble. Since last we encountered our rugged individualist, he has be...

I've been working on a blurb for the Dream Land series, or at least the first volume. The Dream Land by Stephen M. Swartz Book I:...

I've heard that autumn doesn't arrive here in central Oklahoma until a week before Christmas. For someone who likes it cold, that is...

So here it is again: the ubiquitous birthday.  Same day every year.  Why are we not tired of it already?  It returns each year like a plague...

Yesterday I was sick. Cold, with all the usual symptoms. A messy proposition, so I called in "sick" and loaded up on drugs and vit...

Finally the summer spell is broken: a thunderstorm followed by a cold front blows through during the evening!  So I can return blithely to t...

Once again I am drawn to write something about nothing. That is, nothing much that is happening at all. I feel the pressure to not let so mu...

This is what almost happened with previous blogs created and given a few posts: Life, or a strange representative of it, boldly interferes, ...

I finally got to see the new film Inception and I enjoyed it. When I first saw the trailer I knew I had to see it, though I did not really ...

I managed to finish the latest, perhaps last edit of Dream Land I , trying to tighten and cut out unnecessary words--as we've always bee...