I hate talking about myself. Pages like these are where you are supposed to promote yourself and your works. To me it all smacks of hubris. But since I'm here I'll talk a little about myself, and my books.

I'm old. I'm tired. I'm retired. So I have some time to get back into my love for books. After 50 years staring mainly at computer screens (remember the days when your only options were a white, green or amber screen and there was no such thing as an image file?) I found it weird to read words on a page, but my love returned quickly. Now I've started writing too, of course on a computer screen, ebooks that are to be read on a computer screen. I'll get around to publishing them in hard and soft copy, but only if I get an audience for the ebooks.

Back in 2006 I set down to write a self help book about being confident. I don't know what possessed me to think I could write such a book, but I tried. Before I could get the first paragraph finished other people, fictional people, pushed me to writing a completely different story. So I switched gears and started writing fiction. I created two characters, an older gentleman and an older lady who were speaking about the good old days and wouldn't it be fun to go back and relive some of that. These characters were typical American white people, but as soon as the woman began to speak I realized that she was a 15 year old Japanese girl, from over 100 years in the future, and not even on this planet but in an afterlife after an apocalyptic demise of planet Earth.

Oh well, if that's the direction the story goes I'll just follow along, typing as we go. It's amazing how fictional characters that you totally made up suddenly take on a life of their own and start talking about things you never heard of before. Imagination is a fantasmical thing creating creatures from Micky Mouse to Harry Potter that we get to know, and love, and become just as much a part of our life as the solid ones we live with.

In the sections below, if a book sounds interesting to you, click on the image of the book to read it.

For The Love Of Artificial Intelligence
A NEW EARTH

This three book series isn't for everyone. You will have to expand your imagination beyond the normal limits of believability and accept a world where almost every experience is the opposite of what you would normally expect. If you can do that, though, these books will be an exciting and epic ride though an interesting collection of conscious domains.

Imagine that your going about your daily business, just like a thousand days before. Everything is normal, except, you get these fleeting memories, memories of a place long gone, lost in the mist of time, a place called Earth.

But wait! Isn't this Earth? If this isn't Earth, then where am I?

Little by little, day by day, a slow awakening happens and you begin to realize where you are, what you are, and how long you've been here. You're human, with arms and legs and eyes and all the stuff humans have, but you're something else. You're an ethereal copy of the human you were on Earth. You're a spirit human. What?!

Is this the afterlife? Am I dead? Am I a ghost? If I'm dead how can I be having this conversation with myself?

A deep longing wells up within you. You want to go home. You want to go back and live on Earth again. But Earth is missing. It disappeared. Earth died. All life was destroyed on Earth and without life, the planet is invisible from this realm, this strange ethereal domain of existence.

Join our rag tag group of spirit humans as they figure out how, from a domain where they can't even touch physical matter, to heal the Earth and bring life back to her once again.

Ella's Story
My Love From The Future

Ella is just a typical middle school girl, barely 13 years old. She runs with a small crew of two other girls, all from the same block, who have grown up together since they were babies. It was just a normal sleep over night until a small orb of light blinked on and then suddenly blinked off again, beginning an epic journey for Ella and her crew that will totally change their lives, and eventually change the very nature of history itself.

These five books, over 50 episodes, are a coming of age story for not only the girls, but the whole planet. This is a story of life, of love, of joy and pain, and how the emotional and spiritual connection between women develops and grows.

There is more to come, Ella's story isn't over just yet. These books cover the girls 13th, 14th, and 15th year of their lives. There will be more episodes as the girls grow and mature into the excellent and awesome women they will become.

ASHERINA
They Walk Among Us

Adoption is always a difficult process. Paperwork and visits with social workers is a hassle. It's worse than buying a house, so Selena and Raul were expecting some difficulties. Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined what they were getting into.

We all think we have planet Earth pretty well figured out. We list and categorize all sorts of life forms from single cell creatures to the human species which we believe is the top species. But what if there are others, that look like us, but are not human. They walk among us and we are none the wiser.

There is much talk about alien visitations and abductions. Consider, if you will, that you could also be adopted.

A Few Random Excerpts