I don't remember what birthday it was that I received The Pogo Stepmother Goose as one of my presents. Maybe the eighth? The ninth? That was about the age that I adored the now mostly forgotten comic strip "Pogo" by Walt Kelly. So much so, that I made a little pennant out of flannel and, … [Read more...]
“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO” – Coming 2020 from Stanford University Press
We were going to call our book The Flying Saucer Mystery. This was 57 years ago, when I'd just turned 13, and my pal Bryan and I were fired up with the idea that two bright eighth-graders like us could write the definitive book on the "elusive disks," as one writer called them. Heck, we could … [Read more...]
“Don Quixote” and “Journal of a UFO Investigator” – The Art of Amelia Richards
If and when a new edition of my novel Journal of a UFO Investigator comes out, I want Amelia Richards to do the illustrations. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting this young woman face to face, even though two weeks ago I was a visitor to the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – The Story Concluded
“Barney Hill, the black man who joined together that which custom had strictly divided, died on February 25, 1969. He died without knowing that his harrowing experience, of helpless and terrified captivity in the dead and deathly hours of the night, had buried itself like some alien seed in the … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – What Do They Look Like?
No, I'm not talking about the UFO aliens. I'm talking about the main characters in Outtakes of a UFO Investigator--Danny Shapiro, his mother Anna, his father Leon. For those of who you haven't seen my earlier Outtakes posts, I've been posting PDFs of stories that were originally part of my novel … [Read more...]
