Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
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Arthur C. Clarke’s Third Law states that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From a science fiction writer’s point of view, that’s a fantastic law. It allows me to create stories around futuristic ideas that no one here, today, can debate because, dude, to you it’s all magic—you’re not technologically advanced enough to understand it. So I can’t be wrong. Right? Ahh. Well. Within reason, perhaps. Recently, however, I’ve come… Read More
As the title says, September is CMT Awareness Month. It seems like every month is awareness month for some horrible disease. I can’t (and won’t) write about them all. But this one is special. CMT (or Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease) is, according to CMTAUSA.org “the most commonly inherited peripheral neuropathy and is found worldwide among all races and ethnic groups. Discovered in 1886 by three physicians, Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth,… Read More
I’m actually blogging this from the train on the way home from work. I’ve got a bit of writer’s block getting going on my next book, and thought, what the heck. Writing is writing. We’ve got two sick kids at home right now. Reece was feeling better until last night, and then he overate at dinner and spewed it all back up. Lorelai threw up yesterday morning, then started running a fever,… Read More
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