by ladipaolo | Thu Jan 2019 | My Blog (c )
To help celebrate the release of the audiobook of Forebodings earlier this week, Audible has given me 50 Audible credits to give away and with which you may purchase the audiobook for free (25 valid in the US and 25 in the UK only). I will give the credits to the...
by ladipaolo | Mon Jan 2019 | My Blog (c )
Two bits of good news today came my way this evening, about an hour apart from each other! Firstly, Chris Ryan, producer, teacher, and author (of City of Sin crime thriller, Black Jack Pulp Fiction, and other stories) has just released an interview he did of me...
by ladipaolo | Sat Jan 2019 | Science in Fiction
It is a desire as old as humanity to be able to live forever. Our forefathers exalted eternal life as a gift that could be granted to the faithful or to the pure, and we continue to celebrate and even revere the long-lived; we exalt them in Kung-Fu movies as we do in...
by ladipaolo | Thu Dec 2018 | My Blog (c )
In writing my books, I must often spend time imagining alien creatures (whether sentient or not) to put on other planets. Because I am a biologist, it is also important to me that they be anatomically and physiologically plausible. And this is not as easy a thing to...
by ladipaolo | Thu Dec 2018 | My Blog (c )
I have just completed the review of the entire audiobook (all twenty hours) for “Forebodings”. The book will enter the final review phase next week, and if no other changes are required, it will then be submitted to Amazon’s ACX for publication. For...
by ladipaolo | Mon Nov 2018 | My Blog (c )
No rest for me. Tonight, I begin the review of the 19 hours of recordings for the audiobook of “Forebodings,” stealing time where I can…except for Thanksgiving which will be totally and entirely dedicated to friends and family. If the recording needs...
by ladipaolo | Sun Nov 2018 | My Blog (c )
The three days I spent at PhilCon (the Philadelphia Science Fiction Convention) 2018 have left me with undeniable gains on many fronts: I had the chance to meet and befriend a number of great human beings and authors, as well as meet several passionate...
by ladipaolo | Sun Nov 2018 | Science in Fiction
You may wonder what this topic has to do with my novel, which is not a self-help book or a sociological treatise. But though part of the story is set on a planet with a fantasy-like environment, it is a book about the future. And, as I try to peer into this future,...
by ladipaolo | Sat Nov 2018 | My Blog (c )
Master Adam Watson has nearly completed the narration of the audiobook for “Forebodings – Conquerors of K’Tara Book 1.” In chapter 21 (of 27), there is a scene where Lusk Methrim, a foreign healer with powers similar to those of the Sisters of...
by ladipaolo | Fri Oct 2018 | My Blog (c )
I loved this series, though some may find its tropes predictable and even cliché. Paul B. Thompson’ s Elven Nations Trilogy hooked me from the start, regardless of the expected overarching plot and regardless of the expected beautiful elves. It hooked me...
