This is my first attempt at blogging on this site so please bear with me.

I write primarily science fiction and fantasy, with the occasionaly foray into nonfiction as the mood strikes me. I am currently working on a fusion series called "Children of The Dragon", a chronicle of the Xosan (show-san'), living vampires from the planet Antellus who were once human but were transformed by a dragon's blood. People who have seen this description are tempted to think this is a series about vampires, dragons and magic. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

First of all, I write from a secular point of view. I am embarking into new territory of speculative fiction; that is, I am writing in the "real" world, which means any magic must have something to do with advanced technology or natural adaptations. The dragon's blood is the agent for a genetic/biological phage rather than some strange mystical transformation. The only real dragon in the stories exists on a different planet. The mythology is in the wonder that a) such entities as the Xosan might exist; b) how they got in this trouble in the first place; and c) what they are likely to do to circumvent or reverse the process. That the characters are bound up in human history and events is the thread of the interlacement of stories but they are not bound by their place on this Earth.

So far, each story is about one or more of the main characters which feature in the series. There are others which I have not yet touched but which are waiting in the wings to come forth and perform, but I have not even scratched the surface yet. I am just getting warmed up.

Recently I have received a review of one of my stories: "The Queen's Marksman", in which the reviewer was impatient with my "digression" into the background of the story. Her opinion was that if I just concentrated on getting my character focused on going after the bad guys it would make for a better story. Apparently she did not acknowledge that the story was mainly biographical, and that the plot was not as cut and dried as a comic book. I am sure that if she had read any of the first two books she would have seen what I was doing, but she said she did not have time. C'est la vie.

In general, the thrust of my books are pointed toward heroism and the mythology of heroes, protagonists with dilemmas, mysteries to be solved and also the strange twist of maintaining a good relationship with one's fellow man with the added handicap that one is simply too different. Some of my characters don't play well with others. Therefore, a romantic soup of characters one can root for who are not from this earth. I am appealing to people who read books not only for the good guy/bad guy scenario but also enjoy reading about the history or the mythology in the background, the events and situations which motivate the characters and also salient details. Otherwise I could be making a Thai puppet show with just shadows dancing on the wall.