thewanderingnerd    Nonsense, said Zat, dismissingly waving an orange tentacle in Ä ii’zz’s direction. Humans are just stupid bk’gawk’frups. He beat the game and got the high score, so he’s the Chosen One. Congratulations, kid. You have been chosen by fate and destiny and certainly not random chance. You have been...

thewanderingnerd    Going through some of the disorganized files on my Google Drive and OneDrive, in an attempt to consolidate all of my online backups onto a new service that would theoretically both work well with Linux and respect the user’s privacy, I came across this little gem from , the year I first started...

thewanderingnerd    My long awaited sequel novel to Your New Church Family is out now Enjoy another adventure into the rough but quirky world of Creosote Canyon as seen through the eyes of spiritually seeking year old Jack Dinero. I listened to everyone’s feedback about the first book, so this sequel has over ...

thewanderingnerd    After almost a year of writing, deleting, rewriting the things I deleted, editing whatever was left, and agonizing over margins and headers and footers and PDF export settings, I am now ready to share my sequel to the world. Following straight on the heels of the end of Your New Church Family,...

thewanderingnerd    I’ve always been more of a visual medium guy than a literature guy. I’m almost embarrassed to say it, but I’ve watched far more movies than I’ve read books in my life. I prefer scenes with dialogue and action over long winded descriptions of natural settings. I find it hard to actually do something...

thewanderingnerd    What must it have been to be a Christian convert in the first century Just imagine you’re an average Greek guy living in Hellenized Asia Minor around the year or so. You’ve heard all the stories about the Greek gods since youth, and you sacrifice the firstlings of your flocks at the Temple of ...

thewanderingnerd    I have been going through all my old content throughout the years to find stuff to add to my portfolio of writing and I came across this little story I wrote in the dark days of , when I was a night auditor at Zion Lodge in Zion National Park. I was obsessed at the

thewanderingnerd    I know I haven’t posted much in the last month. I have been working very hard on the draft of my next novel, which is tentatively titled Cyborgs In Search of a Savior. In this book I’m leaning harder into both the sci fi aspects of Carrie Layson’s cyborg identity and using it as a metaphor to...

thewanderingnerd    It’s not my novel, nor my essays, nor all the poetry I put on my Geocities page when I was a college aged cringemeister in the s. It’s a little article from all the way back in , called Top Games That Pushed the ATARI to its Limits, Part . Somehow this list of

thewanderingnerd    for my second novel. I was going to call it Echoes of Angels. I’ve always been a fan of the song Everything You Want by Vertical Horizon and thought it was an excellent turn of phrase for a novel in which young Jack Dinero goes deep into investigating the dark past of the Church of