I’m back. You didn’t notice I was gone, did you?

Took a brief sabbatical because life is short and the world is an amazing place and sometimes you really need to disconnect from the grind to appreciate what we all have.

It seemed an important time to come back. Things are a mess right now. Science has been forging ahead and we’re on the brink of an amazing golden age of health breakthroughs. There’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world. The climate crisis can be met head on.

Instead we’ve got a small group of people in charge who are happy to sacrifice all that for their own gain. Power. Cash. That’s all that matters. Charlatans everywhere.

It would be easy to turn away and imagine you have no agency in the face of everything. Muddle on through the mundane things. But everyone has a voice and the only way things will change is if there’s a chorus that will drown out the authoritarian bleatings.

You stand for Life or you stand for the Void, as readers of my Age of Misrule books know too well.

I’ll be celebrating Life.

On the personal front, a major broadcaster has greenlit the adaptation of one of my books. More when I’m allowed. I’ve written a new novel. Two short stories are going to be out in a little while. And I’ve completed the pilot script for a TV series.

I guess the sabbatical is over.

Keep dancing, even if the world is burning.