His Robot Girlfriend – Characters

His Robot Girlfriend is a simple story from a character standpoint because it has only two main characters– the robot and the robot’s boyfriend. Mike, the robot’s boyfriend, is as close to me as I have ever written, though he isn’t quite me. He’s near my age and he is a teacher like me. He likes science fiction as I do. It’s rather easy to fall into making him mirror myself, so I have conciously added some traits which I do not share. The robot, Patience, is essentially the perfect fantasy woman, so all I have to do is match her actions with what a man, in this case Mike, would want a woman to do in that circumstance. In other words, she gets to be lover, child, mother, nurse, friend, and confidant.

Dr. Who

This summer I discovered the new Dr. Who. If you’ve only seen the old, sometimes campy, and always low-budget Dr. Who serials, you must check out this classy, slick, witty, and thoroughly enjoyable version. If you are a Netflix viewer, you can watch the first season (or series, as the Brits say) online or with your Roku TV viewer. You can get the other seasons on DVD. Check it out. You’ll be glad you did.

Princess of Amathar – Hardbound, Trade Paperback, or PDF

Just a reminder, if the series of pictures down the right side of the screen was not enough, that Princess of Amathar is available in a lovely Hardbound edition with a dust jacket for $24.95, trade paperback for $14.95, and downloadable PDF for $3.99.

His Robot Girlfriend

My new novel is “His Robot Girlfriend”. I am almost done with the first draft. It takes place in the year 2038 when robots are common and is about a man who buys a robot girlfriend. I think it’s a bit of a different take on robots than has been done before.

P.S. The robot doesn’t look like this.

Princess of Amathar – The Novel


Princess of Amathar is a science fiction adventure novel in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Alexander Ashton, an earth man, finds himself mysteriously transported to another world– the artificial hollow world of Ecos. There he encounters a wide variety of alien races, including the reptilian Zoasians and their mortal enemies the human Amatharians. The Zoasians and the Amatharians have been at war for thousands of years and Alexander’s first encounter with both of them is when he stumbles upon a vicious battle, which the Amatharians lose. In the heat of battle, Alexander sees a beautiful female warrior, the Princess of Amathar, and falls in love with her then and there. When the Zoasians capture her and take her away, he vows to rescue her. The running series of adventures which he embarks upon includes a stop at her home city of Amathar, where he gets his first look at the human yet alien Amatharian civilization.