Although we bid farewell to several historic space missions recently (Keppler’s nine-year planet hunting mission, Dawn’s 11-year mission to the asteroid belt, and Opportunity’s nearly 15-year exploration of Mars), we’ve had a few ground-breaking new ones to take over the skies. TESS, a planet-hunting satellite, launched in April, 2018, and is NASA’s next mission in…
DetailsMore than 1,000 light-years away from Earth is a star that has been baffling astronomers since it was first observed in data collected by the Kepler mission. It’s largely known as Tabby’s Star, after assistant professor Tabetha Boyajian from the Louisiana State University department of Physics and Astronomy. For no obvious reason, Tabby’s Star has…
DetailsScientists have been able to trace the origins of a ghostly subatomic particle, a neutrino that travelled 3.9 billion light-years to Earth, for the first time. The tiny, high-energy cosmic particle was discovered by sensors deep in the Antarctic ice in the IceCube Detector. Scientists and observatories around the world were able to trace the…
DetailsOne of the top scientific news articles you might be interested in concerns the only known repeating fast radio burst in the universe. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a scientific research program dedicated to finding evidence of intelligent life in the universe has not ruled out the fact that the signal may come from an advanced…
DetailsI was lucky enough to have a mother who read to me. We went to the library every week when we did the grocery shopping. I remember the fantastic old-book smell of the stacks as I’d wander around. I was amazed that there were so many books in the world (as I saw it then),…
DetailsPeople wonder what a writer’s life looks like. Especially when that writer has a complicated and stressful day job the way I do. Some days, I work only 6-7 hours, and on those days I typically try to get some writing done. Some days, I work 12 hours, and on those days I just have…
DetailsHad one agent send a rejection the day after I queried … I question whether she actually read my synopsis. I also had an agent turn me down because he has too much on his plate at the moment … I can actually sympathize with that one.
DetailsI’ve been sending out more queries to keep the total up to about 5 agents at a time. Heard back from one today, but she said it didn’t grab her interest in the right way. I’ve redone Chapter 1 with more tension and conflict, so I’ll just keep trying until I hear something more specific.
I was just re-reading Anne’s delightful duo: Dragonsong and Dragonsinger. It’s easy to forget how much you love a book until you slip back between its covers and rediscover the characters and the world. On the planet Pern, deadly Threads periodically fall from the skies, searing all life they touch. Only the great fire-breathing dragons…
DetailsOne good place to go for ongoing UFO research is MUFON. This stands for Mutual UFO Network. They’re actively collecting reports of UFO sightings. Who knows? Maybe some of them have spotted a velyr …