Are you interested in lucid dreaming or ball lightning? How about the feet of geckos or spiders? The aquatic ape? Cave art? Maybe you like clouds. You might have a fascination with out-of-body or near-death experiences, collective nouns or synesthesia. You can find all that here. Just use the handy little search bar.

There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, but mostly this website exists as a place for the Green Comet trilogy and my other novels to live.

These free novels, Creative Commons licensed Green Comet, and its sequels Parasite Puppeteers and The Francesians, tell an expansive story of love and adventure on an inhabited comet. To learn more about the trilogy, and for samples, visit the Welcome page. To download the books, visit the Books for Free page. The novels The Plainsrunner, The Prime, Sunward and the Vin Stone series are available through the Books for Sale page. To listen to the Okanagan Reader, visit the Audio page.


This reading is the conclusion of Louise’s Ghost by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about nine minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.

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Vin Stone has Fran Huck and I have Mercedes Secor of Wolf Tree Coffee. Mercedes kindly let us into her roastery for a tour and a tasting yesterday, after I asked if she would so I could get some first-hand experience. Now when I write scenes in Fran Huck’s roastery for the Vin Stone series of novels, I can do it with much more verisimilitude. Also, I got to try some new brews and I think my next order might be the best yet.

Visit the Wolf Tree website and have a browse. They will ship and I can attest that the quality of their coffee is just as good as Fran’s.

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I had an operation this week. It was a minor one, but I’m still feeling as if I should coddle myself for a while. I’ll still be able to post recordings of stories on my website, but there probably won’t be any other kinds of posts. And I won’t be writing for the foreseeable.

The operation went smoothly, the results are as expected and recovery will be normal. Also, I had a lot of fun with the nurses. It was almost like being at a free spa.

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This reading is part six of Louise’s Ghost by Kelly Link. It is part of a short story collection called Stranger Things Happen. It’s about eleven minutes long. Like other Okanagan Reader stories it is licensed Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike. You can find my review of the book here. Listen to this and other stories on the Audio page.

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