Good news—the end is nigh! The Menders release date is growing closer. The major editing is done, cover art has reached its final form, and all of the pre-publication rigmarole is in mid-swing. ...

With the release date getting ever closer, I decided to take one last look at Breakers' cover art. Replacing the generic grid with a CPU board pattern ties the cover more tightly to the circumstances ...

As Benders took shape in 2020, I sometimes doubted the decision to place my quartet of characters in high school. Would it be more believable for them to be in college, instead? Or already on the job? ...

A first draft of Breakers has gone out to my dedicated group of readers, and I have already received feedback in the form of some lingering typos. I will make several more passes through the ...

Breakers' writing phase is coming to a close. In the next few days I will begin my first top-to-bottom edit, which I aim to complete by the end of February. Proofreaders can expect to get the ...

...of mistaken identity. Someone recently pointed out that a minor character in Benders shares a name with a rather more central character in a considerably more—make that infinitely ...

Ellie's Los Alamos may not be one hundred percent true to the one we know, but there are a few places from her world you can actually visit. Want to try Sam's much-loved green chile BLT? Head to

I first visited Los Alamos in 2016. It was a cool, gray day—very unusual for this part of the country—and I stayed just long enough to take a brief walk around town and have a quick lunch. It wasn't ...

When the Army Corps of Engineers was looking for place to locate the primary research site for the Manhattan Project, they picked the Pajarito Plateau for two reasons. One was its isolation. Being mostly ...