Ricardo’s back and apparently in a talkative mood. I want him to remain at this website for a little while, but he said that there’s a website for Jellyfish Have Eyes (jellyfishhaveeyes.com) where he plans to settle in. That’s his real home. However, he’s happy to speak out in both websites for now so that he [...]
Writers are both atypical midwives and partial parents to their characters. As atypical midwives, they deliver babies of every age in the form of words. As partial parents, they give a sliver of themselves to each character, selected genes from the author’s repertoire, not their whole genome. When the book is finished – the story [...]
Lucky me! My novel, "Jellyfish Have Eyes," was well reviewed by Joel Shurkin (thank you!) in the National Academy of Sciences website and its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy - a rare case of a first novel not lost in the vast wasteland out there. But what I think is important is that he [...]