Author Archives: iNorsky

Gotta love these foot ferries on False Creek in Vancouver, BC.

Just had to share – looks like she had one too many!

Learned a new word yesterday – “psionics” coined by author Jack Williamson. It describes the power of the mind, such as in the Dune series, the Foundation series, and Ender’s Game. However, the power of the mind lost its popularity in sci-fi because it’s so difficult to prove scientifically. Darn, my sci-fi manuscript employs it.Continue reading “Psionics”

Hello fellow writers who have self-published, Just curious how many rejections from publishers and agents did it take before you decided to self-publish? 🙄

Canadian Telescope Delivers Deepest-Ever Radio View of Cosmic Web (Scientific American journal): This graphic represents a slice of the spider-web-like structure of the Universe, called the “cosmic web”. These great filaments are made largely of dark matter located in the space between galaxies. The Hubble Space Telescope probed the structure of intergalactic space to lookContinue reading “Cosmic Web”

Picked this off my bookshelf for a haha. Gotta love Gary Larson’s weird humour in his Unnatural Selections 🙂 #sci-fi.iNorsky

Yikes, is anyone else at the query letter stage of writing? I must have at least 30 versions now. Each time that I read an article or attend a webinar, I glean something else that prompts me to revise. 🆘

When you can’t quite make it, your team is there to hold you up 🙂

Check this National Geographic article out: HOW TO HELP FORESTS ADAPT TO CLIMATE CHANGE A Nat Geo team examined several solutions: Plant certain trees farther north to keep up with the Earth’s warming. The right trees in the right places make a huge difference. Another idea: genetically engineer tougher trees. Or, in some cases, itContinue reading “How to Save Forests”

Have you read Artemis by Andy Weir? It was published 2017. An entertaining read with danger, adventure, humour, & interesting details of what a moon base could be like.#scifi.iNorsky