Death In Mind, a nonfiction essay in philosophical psychology, was released January 1, 2024. Death In Mind is volume five in the award-winning Discovering the Mind series. This series of essays is the result of a fifty-year hunt for the … Continue reading →
Watch out for Polters! My new novel, Polters, is set for release on March 1, 2023. What is a Polter? It’s a kind of ghost, a lot like us, but more dead. They’re a kind of human being who was … Continue reading →
My newest novel, just completed, not yet “out,” features a lovely cast of ghosts, or “Polters,” as they call themselves. Not poltergeists! Just Polters. They are offended if you think they haunt houses. “Decent Polters don’t haunt,” one of them … Continue reading →
Alien Dream Machine is a finalist for the prestigious Cygnus Book Award for best sci-fi of 2021. It is a huge lift for any author to get any recognition, and this one is a jolt! “The Cygnus Book Awards recognize … Continue reading →
Any review is extremely hard to get, so I was pleased to get a good one for Alien Dream Machine from ReadersFavorite.com. Here is part of it: Readers Favorite.com: Five Stars! “… a narcoleptic private investigator’s adventures with an alien … Continue reading →
Mind Without Brain, a short (159 pp) nonfiction essay, is a finalist for the best nonfiction of 2021 at Next Generation Indie Book Awards (https://indiebookawards.com)! Any time an essay in philosophical psychology wins a prize, you know it has to … Continue reading →
Why do we have bodies? We lug over a hundred pounds of meat and water with us everywhere we go. Wouldn’t life be better if that weren’t necessary? Our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, … Continue reading →
Alien Dream Machine, the third volume in the Phane series, has launched. Phane Vikos is the alien from planet Vikos who has been stranded on Earth since the first book in the trilogy. His partner Flooma appears in this one, … Continue reading →
Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up … Continue reading →
Scientific Introspection has won the coveted BIBA award for 2020’s best independent book, nonfiction-psychology. See: (https://bestindiebookaward.com/live/) Scientific Introspection is an essay in psychology and philosophy of science. It calls for psychologists to use introspection to investigate the mind. If you thought … Continue reading →
