I thought some people would be interested in seeing the evolution of our ideas for the cover of our recently released novel, Olivia Lark’s The Sum of Love. This is…
John Van Pelt
We’ve talked many, many times about using cloth towels and rags in place of paper towels, and despite sounding like a smart idea, it has never taken hold (with me).…
Start with a credible geography, and a credible ecosystem overlay. Not just for map-based adventure fantasy and Lit-RPG, where often the map comes before the manuscript, but for finished manuscripts,…
To reach out in the holiday spirit to our friends and family, we co-designed and printed this card in 2019. Inside of card. Among other things, it is a celebration…
Had a first visit here at Three Bunny Farm from my eldest, her husband, and her 11-month-old boy. We’d been thinking about this day for many months, and it was…
Here’s the thing: we got here from that damned pocketwatch, that someone dropped in a field. Yes, it’s a marvelous design, intricate, ordained, functional — it could not have occurred…
I’ve read, and been in, a lot of debates about Intelligent Design (ID). Leaders of the ID movement famously do not like to come too close to defining what an…
It looked promising at first. “Do You Know Why…?” The eternal question of philosophers and scientists. Why does your hair turn gray? (Pigment cells die in the follicle.) Why do…
I’m reading Why Intelligent Design Fails, a handy collection of grad-level scientific essays, edited around the idea of pointing out the weaknesses of Intelligent Design. It is okay, though it…