The first draft of Serpent’s Smile will be removed from this website on September 15th. There are several reasons for this. A re-write is now in progress. Commercial book publishers avoid works that are available elsewhere, especially when free. The … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ed Skinner
Phoenix and Scottsdale Photo-Expedition
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Printing of Preliminary Edition
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Printing of the preliminary edition of Serpent’s Smile is underway. This is a limited run, not otherwise available to the general public. Copies are destined for readers with technical expertise in specific areas–explosives, for example–and to select individuals within the … Continue reading
Surgery By The Eights
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Eight hours surgery, eight days in the hospital, and eight weeks for recovery (mostly). I’m half-way through the latter today. Opened up with a knife front and back–insert “foot long” here–in the final phase of tri-modal therapy that includes chemotherapy, … Continue reading
Critical Reader Input
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Serpent’s Smile has been extensively edited since the first draft appeared here. Several tens of thousands of words have been cut. But writers are myopic; they see only what’s at the end of their nose, and even then they tend … Continue reading
Not ET’s Heart Light
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Here are three views of “the alien.” It’s the bright thing. (There’s a tiny icon in the bottom-left corner of each image showing its orientation: from the feet, from the left, and face-on looking straight in. Each image is a … Continue reading
Cancer
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I have esophageal cancer, a “locally advanced adenocarcinoma of the esophagus” to quote the doctor. It’s down inside the lower third of my esophagus. I noticed difficulties swallowing. Food would get stuck and I’d need a drink of … Continue reading
Revision Complete, Reviews Begin
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Line-edits and revisions are complete. My first novel, Serpent’s Smile, now enters the review process. More than 20,000 words have been removed to tighten-up the story. Back-story has been chopped and scattered for better flow, or condensed for clarity. It’s … Continue reading
Goldfield Mine, Apache Junction AZ
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Houston, We Have A Problem
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The log in our family firewall caught one of our home computers assaulting another one with three packets. It’s called a “Denial of Service” attack and it comes from a virus, affectionately named as you can see in the snippet … Continue reading