I've sold options for various projects more than a few times. Usually not for that much money, and to no silver-screen results. You rent the right for six months or a year for somebody to try and drum up enough funding to make a movie or TV series. Much of the time for me, it's hustlers hoping.

Yeah, you didn't start on a level playing field.

All about context.

Again? Oh, no!

I have friends in Washington who have been stranded on new islands in the middle of the floods. Making the local news here in Oregon. We had minor flooding, but without the snow-melt Washington had added to the rains.

Always been the wrong time to become a professional writer.

That's what I was told when I started trying, forty-five years ago -- bad idea, no future in it. People don't read books any more. Might make a couple thousand a year, maybe.

Turned out I was lucky ...

And who could argue with that? Thanks, man.

Mostly I post images to get past the idiotic word-limit.

"Damn! Dead again!"

I've mostly written space-opera, but also S&S and urban fantasy, a magic-realism novel, some animation for the tube, couple mysteries, techno-thrillers, a few book/movie tie-ins. Couple of the short stories I did have been horror. I get around.