"Leon comes off much kinder in this episode than in the finished book." That comment appeared on my Facebook Fan Page about the first episode of Outtakes of a UFO Investigator, which I published four weeks ago as a download from this blog. It was posted by my friend Bryan Gilmer--and he ought to … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – Danny Takes Flight
It's time. Five of my writer friends have read the manuscript of The Color of Electrum, sequel to Journal of a UFO Investigator. They've given me their comments. Another friend, a firefighter, has also read it, looking for errors of fact or plausibility. He's done me a great favor--given that … [Read more...]
“The Color of Electrum”–Ezekiel Visits the 60s
Novelist and poet Valerie Nieman, author of Blood Clay, did me the honor last month of "tagging" me for a writers' blog hop on the theme of "My Next Big Thing." Val posted on her current project, a gripping, suspenseful novel called Backwater, about a young girl’s coming of age and her encounter … [Read more...]
Don Quixote, Dulcinea, and Danny Shapiro
"To each his Dulcinea, Though she's naught but flame and air." -- "Man of La Mancha" I've heard it said that everybody ought to read Don Quixote three times in his or her life: in youth, in middle age, and in the ripeness of one's elder years. I've already followed two-thirds of this … [Read more...]
Israel UFO – “Why Do UFOs Fly in Threes?” (Shlomo Shoval)
"Loneliness! What won't people do on account of it? And this loneliness, what is it really, but the cosmic loneliness and dread of abandonment that I talk about all the time, from which you can be saved the moment the first UFO lands here and one sort of creature or another comes out of it and … [Read more...]
