I must confess to having been a tiny bit jealous of some of my friends who got video games and game systems for their birthdays or at Christmas. The few time...

Perhaps more than other artists (I really don't know), authors experience impostor syndrome. The idea that our ideas are worth the money, time and effort it ...

"We're under attack! Launch the missiles! Fire all laser cannons! Pshh-crrrr!" I raised the TV remote above my head in slow-motion action. With continued sou...

Who am I? I dress in clothes otherwise only worn by performers, often including face paint and sometimes armor. I then travel in such garb, sometimes great d...

Despite the fact that much of the Archipelago Series dwells on war and fighting, I have always tried to demonstrate the reality of war's brutal and sadistic ...

On a typical Sunday, I find myself in my local LDS (Mormon) church house attending a three-hour block of meetings. If I happen not to be beyond physical exha...

Rob Engleman. At the beginning of The Voyage of the Entdecker, he is an awkward seventeen-year old farm boy, wishing to be somewhere - anywhere - other than ...

No, I did not just strike a redundancy. Well, maybe I did, but it was purposeful. Not to argue semantics, but there is a difference in the meanings of those w...

I teach my students poetry; what it is, how to read it and how to write it. When it comes time to announce this project, there come the inevitable groans fro...

When I pitch my books to customers, I often call it "an epic seafaring sci fi adventure". This is a literal description of the series as the Planet Archipela...

We are in the midst of a pop culture craze. Superheroes! They are everywhere and we are all too disposed to give up our hard earned money to support them. Wh...

What kind of Luddite would I be if I didn't harp on technology a little bit. Sure, I use it. You can't be functional (let alone successful) in our modern soc...

As I meet people at book signings and conventions, these people are most often checking out my books, I am frequently met with this question: This is science...

"Speculation" is a word which evokes fear in many people. To speculate is to guess, to hypothesize, or to ask "What if?". We are not safe in speculation. Wha...

Books and series that have influenced me and my writing. Every writer is influenced by something or someone else. It's not that originality is impossible, bu...