This one’s for Ginny and Andrea. Sleepy Jean by Marian Allen Hugo Lucas had been hearing the song in his head all day: “Cheer up, sleepy Jean….” Daydream Believer, a song by The Monkees, a group broken up and its members all dead long before…

Holly Jahangiri (the real one) became a character when she won the right twice in contests for the “privilege.” The fictional Holly is Head Librarian of a Living Library (think Fahrenheit 451) on the planet Llannonn, the principal setting of my currently out-of-print sf/cop/farce, FORCE…

Hi, there! I’m Tipper Allen, and guess what? When I got back from being a hero in the Wild West, I found a big adventure right here. (I’m just pretending. I never really left home. I like it here, and Momma and Poppa would miss me.…